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Articles in the October 25th, 2006 issue

Trashed
Despair and hope: Worsening conditions in Czech Romany ghettos have towns eyeing the EU for cleanup help

Chánov, a place broken and bored
Reporter's Notebook

Fewer police guard ČR borders
Schengen delay comes as checkpoints reduce their ranks

ODS is riding high after elections
Civic Democrats in a position to distance themselves from ČSSD

ODS gets big Prague win
City Hall due for a makeover as Civic Democrats dominate

Book sheds light on Normalization
Authors get stories of officials who watched the collapse of a regime

Police to robbers: Watch your steps
Gaits might be as good as fingerprints for catching crooks

Seven Days

Increased capacity
Several new sports arenas are coming on line while existing venues fail to pay for themselves

Medical center to spearhead R&D
Brno facility breaks ground despite political infighting

More emissions vouchers called for
Increased demand relies on economic growth, competition

State funds bulk of industrial zones
Private companies built four of 92 current projects

10 Questions
with Petra Lamlová

Biz Week

Biz Events

Hotel vet returns to Prague

Homegrown
Czech comics artists step into the spotlight

A whistle-stop tour through American literature

Hoang Nguyen: A tale of breaking barriers
Vietnamese designs enrich the capital city's increasingly sophisticated fashion world

Around Town
Budget Mozart remix

A winning reprise
Mozart's final opera gets the modern treatment

Liberated jazz
An expanded roster of international stars for the IJF's 30th

Assimilation rock
French, German bands head multicultural bill

One man's passion
A private collector puts his obsession on display

Aloha y'all
Waikiki offers a culinary trip around two parts of the world

Seasonal delight
Last call for tasty Bretagne lobster

The agony of the exodus
Immigrant cooks and other dispatches from the food front

Pens and needles
A savage scissoring of the fashion industry

Junk sick love
A new Australian film tackles drugged-up desires

It's a misses' world
For Czech women, beauty and brains clearly coexist

Outside interference can work wonders

Editorial Review
From the opinion pages of the Czech press

Letters
Pub fight

Skype bets on free Czech Web calling
Internet telephony provider plans to launch via Centrum.cz