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GDP grows 8.9% in first quarter
A YEAR ago, economic growth of almost nine percent would have delighted Slovak analysts. This spring it has left them disappointed.The Statistics Bureau released a flash estimate of year-on-year GDP growth on May 15 that showed the economy expanded by 8.9 percent in the first quarter of 2007. A detailed breakdown will not be available until June 1.
Ten year olds go wireless
SLOVAK children receive their first cell phone when they turn ten, according to a recent survey. Even though the children mostly use their phones to talk to their parents, siblings, friends, classmates or relatives, 43 percent also communicate with people whom their parents do not know.
Rockets and lapdog-ism
If you think that aggression consists of the threat of rocket attacks, and that building 'anti-rocket' defences is a legitimate form of defence, consider this: If you have thieves all around you and you build a fence to protect your home, you're the aggressor.
Hostel 2 stays hostile toward Slovakia
A YEAR AFTER his hit gorefest Hostel raised millions at the US box office and the ire of a nation of Slovaks, American writer/director Eli Roth is back for the release of the sequel, Hostel: Part II, which opens worldwide on June 8.
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