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Complete
with a
brass
pole,
wooden
floor
and
fishnets,
the
"stripper
cow",
bares
all,
entertaining
passerby
on
Avenida
Central.
The
stripper
cow is
one of
the some
120 cow
art that
is part
of the
Cow
Parade
ongoing
until
July in
downtown
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Living Healthy to 100
A remarkable group of
centenarians living on
Costa Rica’s Nicoya
Peninsula share their
secrets.
It was sunrise in the
village of Hojancha when
Tommy Castillo and I
mounted a pair of bikes
and whizzed downhill
from his pink wooden
house into the steamy
Costa Rica morning.
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Spirit Carves Out Latin
Niche
U.S.-based Spirit
Airlines is expanding
its presence in Latin
America, aiming to cater
to passengers not served
by the big commercial
carriers like American
Airlines, Continental
and Delta.
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Tip: Dialing The Eight Digits
To
make dialing less confusing under the new eight
digit number system, dial the 2 or 8 prefix
first then dial the seven digits as always.
Click here for
more tips |
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A collection of our best fotos
of news events, people,
happenings in Costa Rica and
more...
click
here!
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People Words
Spanish like
English has different names for different people. By learning the words
below you will increase your vocabulary, comprehension and language fluency.
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Sunday 30
March 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Sex Education Will Part
of 2009 School Program,
Education VP Announced
The Ministerio de
Educación Pública (MEP)
has announced that it
will expand sex
education in the
classroom next year,
teaching in the students
how to use a condom,
sexual pleasure without
coitus, life as a couple
and social relations,
among some of the
subjects.
Average of Four
U.S. Passports Stolen Daily
Thieves steal an average
of four American passports a day,
according to a report by the U.S.
embassy in Costa Rica, noting that 1.348
passports were stolen during 2007.
Starbucks Changing
The
Way Costa Rican Farmers
Grow Coffee — and
Live
In 1993, a
representative from a
U.S. company called
Starbucks visited
Rodrigo Vargas' coffee
farms in the highlands
of central Costa Rica.
Confidence Index Peaks
The confidence index –
0.0 to 3.0 range – for
the Government increased
from 2.36 in August 2007
to 2.55 in March 2008,
the highest point since
January 2003.
us$2.1 Billion In Fuels
Costa Ricans are burning
fuels at a us$6 million
daily rate, for an
overall us$2.1 billion
at the end of the year,
us$600 million over the
us$1.5 billion forecast
by the Costa Rican Oil
Refinery (RECOPE ).
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Canada Contributes to
Land Mine Action in
Nicaragua
Maxime Bernier, Canadian
Minister of Foreign
Affairs, announced a
contribution of $750,000
toward land mine
clearance activities in
Nicaragua. Canada’s
contribution will
support Nicaragua’s mine
clearance program as
well as education and
awareness initiatives
aimed at preventing
accidents and
fatalities.
Honduras: Two Million
Saving Bulbs
The Honduran National
Electric Energy
Enterprise (ENEE) will
distribute two million
saving bulbs to the
population, as part of a
governmental plan to
reduce energy
consumption.
1.4 Million Children
Aged 5 to 13 Work in
Brazil
There were over 1.4
million illegal child
laborers aged five to 13
in Brazil in 2006, the
Brazilian Geography and
Statistics Institute (IBGE)
said in a study Friday.
Argentine Farmers Resume
Strike Against Export
Tax Hikes
Farmers in Argentina
resumed their blockade
of rural highways
Saturday against export
tax hikes on their crops
after talks with the
government failed to end
a 17-day-old strike.
Washington Not Ready to
Add Nicaragua to the
Axis of Evil
When Daniel Ortega
unexpectedly led his
left-wing party back
into power in Nicaragua
in early 2007, he faced
a dark future —
literally.
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