WHEN the taxi, after an arduous climbthrough the mountains, swung around acurve and the misty Orosi Valley openedup below, I couldn’t help but think:...
THEY’RE notexactly beating thefish off with baseballbats, but according toreports from bothcoasts they’re comingpretty close to it.As this is writtenSunday afternoon,tarpon are hitting hotand...
Despite President Abel Pacheco’s years ofexperience as a psychiatrist, he may never havetaken on a more ambitious reconciliation thanthe one he is attempting now...
THE Libertarian Movement Party attempted to makebusiness leaders’ wildest dreams a reality last week whenits legislators submitted the Central American Free-TradeAgreement with the United...
LOGISTICAL problems created achaotic first day of school for some of thecountry’s approximately 970,000 studentson Monday, especially in Caribbean slopecommunities affected by severe floods...
COSTA Rica reduced the annualnumber of cases of spina bifida in newbornsby 31.5% from 1999-2003, thanksto the addition of vitamins and folic acidin the...
USING words such as “slavery” and“the future of the human race,” theMinistry of Foreign Relations and two visitingscientists last week attempted toignite on a...
DAILY trips down unpaved roads orpaved ones filled with potholes ofteninspire communities to lose faith in thecompetence of municipal governments andthe Ministry of Public...
