Funny old world: The week’s offbeat news
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From a perfume that promises world peace to a miracle food that could remove the fragrance from cat poo. Your weekly roundup of offbeat...
Costa Rican NASA pioneer answers students’ questions
Young Costa Ricans looking for a role model in scientific achievement need look no further than Sandra Cauffman. After what she has described as a difficult childhood in the Hatillo neighborhood of San José as the child of a single mother, Cauffman went on to become one of NASA’s most renowned engineers.
NASA’s Dawn mission inspires Costa Rican students
To cap off their project, the students contacted the Dawn team directly to ask them a few questions about scientific aspects of the project and seek some career guidance. What better way to learn about a project than from the people working on it?
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Nicaragua will not attend the Summit of the Americas
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"We are not interested" in going to Summit of the Americas, says the Nicaraguan president
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El Salvadoran woman freed after nearly 11 years in jail for criminalized childbirth
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Jacqueline, who spent almost eleven years in jail for an out-of-hospital birth criminalized as attempted homicide, regained her freedom in El Salvador, where abortion...
