Word: ostalgia
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...Championship once the contract tying racing teams to F1 expires in 2007. Ecclestone last week reportedly offered to boost the teams' share of F1's estimated $800 million annual commercial income. "He'll let them have just enough" to keep them on board, says Windsor. Expect a tight finish. Ostalgia In A Bottle Things go better with, er, Kofola? Back in the '60s, Czechoslovaks drank a copycat cola by that name, with less sugar and half the caffeine of Coca-Cola. It fizzled after communism fell and Western soft drinks became available. But in 1999, a north Moravia company relaunched...
...coal mine in central Henan province continued to rise, with 77 confirmed fatalities and hopes fading of finding any of the 71 missing alive. China's mining industry is notoriously dangerous; 4,153 miners were killed in the first nine months of this year. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN? Ostalgia Calls Trabant fan Graham Goodall is seeking a new home for 40 of the 49 cars he keeps in the grounds of his home in a picturesque village in northern England. Goodall said he fell in love with the East German icon - whose engine has only five moving parts...
...that in Bisky's Brandenburg, where the stylish Dagmar Enkelmann is the leading PDS candidate, it is expected to win more seats than any other party. More than two-thirds of PDS members are over 60, filled with nostalgia for the old East German regime. In fact, a worrisome "ostalgia" infects both east and west. According to a new survey in Stern magazine, 24% of voters in western Germany would like to see the Berlin Wall put back up. Bisky says his party's appeal can move west: "I want a socialist party in the Federal Republic of Germany...