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RADAR Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek is scheduled to discuss the missile-defense shield with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. at the end of February. The meeting will also include talks about NATO’s missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported.

WASTE The Education Ministry wasted tens of millions of crowns on the construction of Web sites for teachers and schools over the past five years, Právo reported Jan. 28. Experts report that the same Web sites could have been created for a small fraction of the actual amount spent.
SEIZED Customs officers confiscated nearly 17,000 kilos of tobacco and 9 million cigarettes without valid stamps in Prague 9, ČTK reported Jan. 28. The sale of such illegal products would deprive the state of about 50 million Kč ($2.8 million) in taxes, according to a Prague Customs Directorate spokesperson.
BIRTHS Prague maternity wards are overloaded, causing more expectant mothers to travel to central Bohemian hospitals to give birth, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported Jan. 29. A popular destination is the Neratovice hospital, which is also currently at capacity. Other hospitals receiving a large number of Prague mothers-to-be are in Beroun and Hořovice.
RESEARCH The village of Vestec, central Bohemia, is to be turned into a center of Czech and European science. A large biotechnological and biomedical research center is to be built there within the next five years on 5 hectares (12.4 acres) of land owned by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Hospodářské noviny reported Jan. 28. The site was chosen for its convenient access from both Prague and the D1 highway.
SMOKING President Václav Klaus opposes a bill that would ban smoking in restaurants, citing concerns that such a regulation would be a limitation of individual freedoms, the daily Lidové noviny reported Jan. 29. Klaus himself is a nonsmoker. The bill was proposed by senior ruling Civic Democratic Party Deputy Boris Šťastný. The Chamber of Deputies may vote on it Feb. 6.
CHURCH The state should settle its property relations with churches within a two-year period at most, as opposed to the planned 60-year process, former Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said, according to a Jan. 28 ČTK report. He said the government could draw funds to compensate churches through the sale of state property, such as Prague Airport.


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