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Faces &
Places!
Pablo is one of the many toll booth collectors
that is happy to meet and greet drivers on the
General Cañas highway east of airport.
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Family of Abused Boy Charges Archbishop
The family of a boy who was
apparently abused by a priest, is accusing archbishop Angel San Casimiro for
concealing information in the case.
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Deathly Beating
A Nicaraguan man, yet
to be identified by authorities, was beaten to death Saturday night in El
Roble de Alajuela, a neighbourhood with a lot of conflicts in the past, by
an angry crowd after he tried to rape a young girl.
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Study Abroad Opportunities
The Interamerican University Studies Institute will offer two programs in
Latin America this summer for high school students.
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U.S. Threatens Action Against Online
Gambling
Federal prosecutors have begun a wide-ranging effort to curb the growing
popularity of online gambling in the United States by quietly threatening
legal action against American companies that do business with Internet
casinos and sports betting operations based outside the country, lawyers and
industry executives say.
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Patent Enforcement
The U.S. intellectual-property system has distinguished itself in the past
several years for such gems as patents on privatizing government, a method
for using a playground swing, and a computerized system that handles
reservations for going to the toilet. But patenting the obvious is by no
means confined to the land of reality shows and SUVs.
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Colombia seizes 2.5 tons of cocaine
At least 2.5
tons of cocaine have been seized in Colombia in two separate raids led by
police and government troops, which also destroyed a drug-processing
laboratory, police said Sunday.
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Venezuela taxman targets media
The Venezuelan government has ordered three privately-owned television
stations to pay up to $2m in taxes for airing opposition ads free of charge.
The stations broadcast opposition endorsements of a strike in late 2002,
which had been called to try to force President Hugo Chavez from office.
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