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...Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel Janícek, 42, unemployed, with a history of mental illness and suicide attempts, burned himself in Velká Chyska on April 8. His partner told police that Janícek had feared a prison sentence he was about to serve. Two others, a 31-year-old psychiatric patient...
...putting its own version online. On March 20, the Czech Interior Ministry (www.mvcr.cz) will post names of some 100,000 alleged StB collaborators, as well as 9,000 organizations the communists spied on at home and abroad. An online database searchable by name is in the works. Pavel Bret, a deputy director of the Bureau for the Documentation and Investigation of Communist Crimes...
...striking difference: employees in the Czech factory in the town of Suchdol nad Luznuci spend more than twice as much time off sick as their Austrian counterparts in nearby Schrems. Is there something in the water? No. The problem is not health or the environment, according to Pavel Mracek, the Czech plant's personnel director. The problem is the government's absenteeism policy. At present, a typical worker at the Czech plant earns about €370 a month - but if he calls in ill, he'll get €325 in benefits from the government over the same period. Not surprisingly...
Russian immigrant Pavel Tsatsouline introduced these regulations, as well as the kettlebell regimen itself, to the United States in the early 1990s...
...blood test administered just prior to competition. The Russians, who have had a poor showing at the Games, also complained that their hockey team was heavily penalized and that their skaters, including silver medalist Irina Slutskaya, were harshly judged. In Moscow, politicians, reflecting public anger, expressed outrage. Sports Minister Pavel Rozhkov demanded both apologies and action from the International Olympic Committee. "Otherwise, the Russian team pulls out. We can set up games...