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Last night was the start of the annual Teletón to
raise money for charitable organizations. You can
make contributions on the streets (as shown above),
at local shops and restaurants, by telephone or
internet.
As of this morning 7:00am (CST) over 16.000.000
colones had been raised.
Click here to go to the
Teletón website to make your
contribution!
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| NEWS |
updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Two Cubans Arrested With Ecstacy
The courts have issued a six month
preventative detention against the two cubans
who were arrested for possession of a load of
Ecstacy (Extasis in Spanish).
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Minimum wages
Costa Rica is
the Central American nation that has the highest
minimum wages, according to data from the Secretary
of Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).
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Observers Expect U.N. Cloning Controversy to
Resurface
Both Costa Rica and the United States have
indicated they are unsatisfied with the
recommendation made by the Assembly's legal
committee and want U.N. member states to
support their proposal for a ban on all
cloning.
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Nearly 150 US
soldiers in Iraq infected with skin disease
Nearly 150 US soldiers
in Iraq have been diagnosed with a parasitic
skin disease, and hundreds more could
unknowingly be infected, experts said.
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Former US President
Reagan unable to talk, says daughter
Former US President
Ronald Reagan was unable to communicate or
feed himself as he is gradually overtaken by
the lengthening shadow of Alzheimer's disease,
his daughter Patti Davis was quoted as saying
Friday.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS:
CUBA |
Lights Shine at Night in Remote Los
Tumbos
The families of the Cuban community of
Los Tumbos have replaced their candles
with clean-energy, bright lights -- and
now children are learning more, baseball
games are followed on television and
residents tap their feet to music
playing on the radio.
Everyone in Los Tumbos agrees that life
is incomparably better than three years
ago, when the lack of electricity meant
that residents settled in for the night
at an early hour.
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