In this week's edition of Zooming In, Gelf's quasi-weekly round-up of undercovered local stories from around the world: Very hungry eagles; an ad of questionable taste; and an ironic citizen-journalism blurb. One of our favorite stories this week concerns the Czechs' official baby-name minder.

If you want to give your baby an unusual name, you have to first check with Miloslava Knappová. As the only recognized Czech name expert, Knappová publishes the book How will your child be named?, which contains the few thousand government-authorized names and spelling variations. Any other names have to be vetted by Knappová at a cost of $23.50 each—she recently rejected "Chicago" because it derives from a Native American word for swamp. "Does one 80-year-old woman honestly have the right to decide my child's name?" Jan Lepař, the father of Finn, asked the Prague Post. For now, the answer is yes.