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Czech scientists are cooking up a plan to create a brand new beer for menopause women.

Oestrogen levels drop significantly in women at the onset of the menopause and remain low from then on. Studies have linked a lack of the hormone to increased risk of various health problems, including heart disease and osteoporosis.

While other countries cook up diets and exercise programs for, only the Czech Republic think of making beer for their women.

Czech women lack oestrogen in their diet, so we wanted to solve this through beer because the Czech Republic is number one in the world for beer consumption,” Karel Kosar, managing director of the brewing research institute, told Cee-FoodIndustry.com.

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You can not miss this very interesting, sexist and sometime racist discussion about love, dating and relationship in the Czech Republic. It nicely starts out with a premise that Czech Women prefer American Men and leads to European gene pool.

Read it for silly fun and don’t take it too seriously.

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The walk starts at the Rudolfinum concert hall, where he conducted the very first concert of the Czech Philharmonic in 1896. We go past the Dvorak monument in front of the building and continue along Krizovnicka Street to St Salvatore’s Church. We can stop in Husova Street where Dvorak stayed when he first came to Prague and where he was confirmed in St Giles Church. That’s close to Uhelny trh square where his first public performance took place.

Then we continue along Narodni Street to the National Theatre and Zofin Island. Then via St Adalbert’s Church where he played the organ, we continue to Charles Square where he liked to stroll in the morning and listen to the singing of birds. Having walked past the building in Zitna Street where Dvorak lived until his death and which is in bad repair today, we arrive at the Antonin Dvorak Museum. From there we can continue on to Dvorak’s grave at Vysehrad cemetery.

It is possible that sound of trains from America was the muse for his famous short piano piece “Humoresque.”

“Following Dvorak’s Footsteps through Prague” exhibition will be open until April 14th, 2008. So there will be plenty of time for you to make plan.

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To “celebrate” the “high-anticipating” radar project proposed by the US government, Lady Czech Defense Minister dueted with Czech’s famous folk singer Jan Vycital in this jovial “Dobry den prapore hvezd a pruhu/Good day the flag of stars and stripes” song.

This song was a new version of the old Communist song, “Good day Sergeant Gagarin,” congratulating Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

The song demonstrates the typical sarcastic humor of Czechs who usually make fun of many ill-fated events and circumstances engulfing their small, powerless country.

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To really know what Czechs feel about the radar project, watch Pink’s video which was broadcasted on Czech TV. One more thing, the video was subtitled in Czech, which was very rare, to make sure every Czech understand the song’s lyrics.

I love this song and this flighty attitude of Czechs until I read people’s criticism of the singing- lover Parkova for this �unprofessional� outburst, that she showed too much pro-American.

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