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  • ‘Don’t give up!’: Alice Ždrale, head of the Czech and Slovak School of Pittsburgh, on language and expatriate life
    Just over 100 years ago, the American steel town of Pittsburgh was host to
    a memorandum of understanding between the nation’s Czech and Slovak
    immigrant communities to create an independent republic following the
    demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today, the city is home to one of
    America’s largest Slovak communities, a modest Czech one, and a school
    that unites expatriates of both. Alice Ždrale, head of the Czech and
    Slovak School of Pittsburgh, on a working trip back to her native Prague,
    shares the story of the informal school, one of the newest among the
    diaspora in North America.
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  • Prague-based Nanovo company revives and replicates Communist-era designs
    For nearly ten years, the company Nanovo has been buying, renovating and
    re-selling design items from Czechoslovakia’s Communist era, from home
    décor to furniture. I visited the company’s warehouse in Prague’s
    Vysočany district to meet its two owners, Jirka Mrázek and Adam Karásek
    and I first asked them if it was still easy these days to come across
    original pieces from communist Czechoslovakia:
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  • First ten Czech Flexers head off for a year in the United States
    For the first time ever, ten Czech students were admitted to the Future
    Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program this year, giving them the chance to spend
    an academic year in the United States living with a volunteer host family
    and attending a U.S. high school. As they embarked on their adventure on
    Monday, the US ambassador to Prague, Stephen King, came to Prague airport
    to wish them a great year.
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  • My Prague – Gerald Turner
    Gerald Turner is a leading translator of Czech literature into English and
    is currently preparing to take on no less a work than Jaroslav Hašek’s
    The Good Soldier Švejk. Though now mainly based in his native England,
    throughout the 1970s Turner lived in Prague, where he lost his enthusiasm
    for communism and fell in with lots of notable figures on the city’s art
    scene. Our tour of “his Prague” begins at the pub U Parlamentu in the
    Old Town.
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  • Alum Lake – “one of a kind” located in northern Czechia
    A miniature Dead Sea – that’s what they call Kamencové jezero or Alum
    Lake in Chomutov. It is said to have healing powers. The alum prevents the
    growth of algae and the clean water contains sulphate, chloride and iron
    which are said to have a beneficial effect on respiratory diseases,
    infections, and even acne.
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  • UNESCO status: The pros and cons for Czech sites
    Czechia has 12 cities, towns and other historic sites on the UNESCO World
    Heritage List. They are as diverse as the magnificent center of Prague and
    rural cottages in the village of Holašovice in the South of Bohemia. Does
    inclusion on the prestigious list still help local authorities to keep them
    preserved? And aren’t the growing crowds of tourists becoming more of a
    problem? Vít Pohanka looked for the answers, both in the Czech Republic
    and at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
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