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Heredia Hills Estate (COD 1008) – Read On! For Sale

Heredia Hills, For Sale. Price: $850,000 | Negotiable. COD: 1008. Email: realestate@ticotimes.net

Pope Francis: It’s ‘pure scandal’ that women earn less than men for the same work

According to the National Catholic Reporter, the pope also said it was "not true" and an "insult" to suggest that women's rights movements should take the blame for declining marriage rates. Doing so "is a form of chauvinism that always wants to control the woman," Francis said.

Twitter has a huge problem — and it’s all in your head

Nine years after the site launched, and two years after investors began demanding user growth, Twitter seems to have realized what lots of hardcore users learned the hard way long ago: that the great hallmark of Twitter, the unfiltered real-time feed, is psychologically untenable.

Expanded Panama Canal to open April 1, 2016

The main contractor consortium placed the last of the project’s 16 lock gates on Tuesday. With the expansion, so-called Post-Panamax ships measuring over 400 meters long and 50 wide, the size of four football fields, will be able to go through the canal.

The dreamer behind Cartago’s hot springs revival

Avraham Kotlitzky has been working for the last eight years to recreate a legendary hot springs resort on a hill just south of the city. The resort was Costa Rica’s biggest tourist attraction in the 1880s and, legend has it, the especially hot waters can cure all kinds of ails, from psoriasis to indigestion.

Hot springs at Purapora, Costa Rica’s ‘fountain of youth,’ get a new lease on life

The legendary springs fell into disuse and ended up lost, forgotten and buried in a garbage dump for decades — until an Israeli Indiana Jones named Avraham Kotlitzky tracked them down here eight years ago, moved garbage and weeds aside, and thrust his hand into a hot spring.

How to Buy Untitled Property Safely in Costa Rica

Untitled properties can often be bought at a great discount — as little as half-price — but there are stories of buyers losing their investment entirely because of 11th-hour surprises. There are definitely risks to buying untitled land, but there are steps that can be taken to address them.

Free ebook anthologizes 25 Tico travel stories

The book itself describes all kinds of situations and morals, but one of its most striking aspects is the range of people represented.

Costa Rica maintained its spot as the 12th “happiest” country in the world

The April sun beat down on pedestrians hurrying into the shade across the Plaza de la Cultura in the Costa Rican capital, San José....

Nicaraguan legislature approves Russian satellite bases

The agreement, which was signed in 2012 by the governments of Nicaragua and Russia, would allow Moscow to set up land stations in the country for its satellites known as Glonas.

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