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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Costa Rica to Increase Marine Territory Protection

The Costa Rican government plans to establish a national strategy to increase the protection of its 589,000 kilometers of marine territory from 7% to...

Tica Scientist at NASA Furthers Nanotechnology

Many scientists get ahead by thinking big, but Jeannette Benavides’ forte is thinking small – and cheap. The Costa Rican scientist, a 20-year employee of...

Airport Facilities Open, Contract Woes Persist

As the country s tourism high season kicked into high gear, the government celebrated the completion of long-awaited improvements at the nation s two...

Jewelry-Making Workshop Opens Gallery

At Galerías Metallo, jewelry-making apprentices have unveiled the fruits of a year or two of pliers-wielding, waxcasting, stone-embedding study at a gold and silver...

New Facilities Inaugurated at Poás

Poás, Costa Rica’s most-visited volcano and national park, north of San José, has a new cafeteria, artisan shop and video room, the Ministry of...

Putumayo Releases “New Orleans Christmas”

For some jazzy new Christmas music, try “New Orleans Christmas,” the recently released Putumayo World Music compilation. “Silver Bells,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “I’ll...

Country Day Expands Guanacaste Campus

The CountryDay School, one of Costa Rica’s several private schools based on the U.S. education system, has begun expanding its Guanacaste campus, hoping to...

Innocents’ Day: Dec. 28

Last year, a few days after Christmas, a friend called and in the course of the conversation asked if we’d heard that Fidel Castro...

Pied Piper of the Shantytown’ Helps Children in Needy Communities

Keith Holder could very easily be called the Pied Piper of the Shantytown. Children naturally flock to him. As he walks through the poor...

AIDS Patients Have Home of Hope

In a downtown San José church, a choir sang songs Dec. 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day. There weren’t many of them, and they...

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