Word: warsaw
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...always the simplest motivator for people to turn up: the prospect of no job at all. As the economic downturn lingers on, some European authorities are reporting declines in absenteeism. "When people are worried they may lose their jobs," says Wieslaw Lagodzinski, spokesman for the Central Statistical Office in Warsaw, "they have much more respect for work." In Germany, where the 11.1% unemployment rate is at its highest for 10 years, absenteeism is at its lowest level since 1991. A sick economy, it seems, can make for a healthier workforce...
...their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then on to the subscribers' Nokia 3650 phones on the Sunny Dream. The demo was part of this year's big story at the 3GSM World Congress mobile technology trade fair in Cannes: video streaming over mobile...
...DIED. KAZIMIERZ DEJMEK, 78, Polish stage director and political dissident; in Warsaw. Born in what was then the Polish city of Kovle (now in Ukraine), Dejmek staged plays that strongly criticized the Communist government. His most famous work was a 1968 production of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers), which led to mass student protests after it was shut down by the government...
...ongoing effort to improve its Scud-killing abilities, the U.S. Air Force last month launched a pair of Scuds--which it secretly obtained from an unspecified Warsaw Pact nation--from American soil for the first time. The firings, from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base out over the Pacific Ocean, were witnessed by U.S. and Israeli defense officials. Sensors on the missiles as well as aboard nearby ships and planes tracked the trajectory of the Scuds. "Because the new Patriot is 'hit to kill,' we need very accurate data on Scud performance," a Pentagon official said...
...Szpilman, on whose memoirs Roman Polanski, a survivor of Poland's wartime ghetto, has based his very good movie. Szpilman, portrayed with stoic grace by Adrien Brody, clings to every last shred of normality, despite confronting one of the great abnormalities in human history--the monstrous ghetto in which Warsaw's Jews were brutally forced to live...