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Modern
Equipment.
Vilma Barboza, director of the Ovsicori,
checks the antenna at the Observatorio Vulcanológico and Sismológico
de Costa Rica, installed in Abangares,
Guanacaste, which will detect nuclear, chemical or seismic
activities.
[Foto: AFP/La Nacion]
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updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Dengue Fever
Affects 12,000
The
number of people affected by the dengue
fever in Costa Rica rose to 12,000 and 38 of
the victims were hit by the hemorrhagic
type, said the Health Ministry reported on
Saturday. >more
24
Minors Arrested in Heredia
Being
detained didn't worry them much as the 24
minors arrested on Saturday in Heredia kept
shouting in support of their soccer team. >more
Five
Indonesians Deported
Saturday,
the five men detained during the week
boarded a plane for their trip home,
courtesy of Costa Rican Immigration
officials. >more
Historic
Celebration
Today,
for the first time in the history of Costa
Rica, the Day of the Chinese Culture is
celebrated.
Nobel
medicine prize goes to US, British
scientists
US scientist Paul C.
Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield were awarded
the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday, the Nobel
jury announced.
>more
US condemns
suicide bombing in Israel
The United States on
Saturday condemned the latest suicide bombing in
Israel, urging the Palestinian Authority to crack
down on terrorist groups.
>more
US government
considers video cameras inside commercial
planes
The US government could
install monitoring video cameras inside commercial
airplanes soon in order to get an early warning of
hijackings or other trouble on board, Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) officials said
Friday.
>more
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Isolation Creates Gene Lab
Limited
diversity of their gene pool has made
groups such as Lancaster's Amish
valuable in fighting diseases. Researchers
are finding "genetic isolates"
all over the world - including ...
Costa Ricans.
Almost 300 years ago, a few dozen Amish
families, tired of Catholic persecution
in Switzerland, fled to America. They
settled in Lancaster County, Pa., and
built a prosperous farming community
that today numbers around 30,000. >more
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RETIREMENT
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A
good Restaurant
I
feel really sorry for poor Henry David
Thorough. He was so completely satisfied
at that stupid Walden Pond in
Connecticut; he would have thought he
died and went to Heaven if he ever would
have had a chance to live here. I just
finished a GREAT BLT sandwich while
sitting out on my balcony. I counted 6
different butterflies visiting our
flowers. >more
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