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...drop in tourism is something the Czech Republic can particularly ill-afford, since vacationing foreigners last year accounted for $3 billion in revenue - some 5.3% of GDP - according to the Czech Tourism Authority. "The situation in southern and northern Bohemia is a catastrophe," said Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. Vladimir Zunt, spokesman for the town of Cesky Krumlov, described his city - a medieval gem and one of the most popular tourist destinations outside Prague - as "Sodom and Gomorrah," with 2-m-deep holes in the streets and gas and electrical lines ripped out. The government has so far pledged...
...there anything we can do? First, says Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center, in Lincoln, Nebraska, "we need to conserve water all the time, not just when we have droughts...
...According to Svoboda, droughts are a natural and predictable part of the climate cycle, so we really shouldn't be so surprised when water supplies run low. Drought is something we can - and must - prepare for, he says, but getting ahead of the curve requires proactive thinking, and possibly expensive ventures like creating new reservoirs. If we don't take droughts more seriously, Svoboda predicts, the strain on water supplies will just keep getting worse...
...raunchy rapper, won a Grammy this year. Rilling, artistic director for the Oregon Bach Festival, got his for conducting the festival orchestra and chorus in a recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo, an original work co-commissioned by the festival. That kind of distinguished performance draws students like Matthew Svoboda to the annual classical-music celebration at the University of Oregon in Eugene. "It's a first-class festival with incredible musicians I'd expect to see only in New York, Paris or Los Angeles," says Svoboda, who is pursuing a master's degree in composition and choral conducting...
...hockey goal that humbled the Russians before the entire world in Nagano was a victory of ideas over simple raw power, much like the political relation of the two countries for the past 50 years. How sweet it is that the player who scored the winning goal was named Svoboda. His name, in both languages, means freedom...