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Dominic Wightman: Recuerdos (Memories) of Costa RicaDominic Wightman: Recuerdos de Costa Rica
The road up through the mountains from Panama to the Costa Rican border was a tricky drive; first came the rain which turned the road into a river, then the falling rocks and, finally, crazy “King of the Road”...
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Peace and Love–Once Again, With Thinking
Walking along the paths of the sylvan city park after a sitting at creek side, I came upon a young foursome enjoying the gorgeous afternoon. They looked like time travelers from the ‘60’s. On a tie-dyed sheet sat the...
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Air China Preparing for More Tourists to the Caribbean
China Executive Aviation provides greater flows of tourists between the Giant Asia and the CaribbeanDirect service to the Bahamas is not an option today, but the flag carrier of China plans more flights to hubs in North America and...
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The Ultimate Contradiction: Man
The 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital flight was just commemorated. Shortly afterward, in 1962, John F. Kennedy said America would “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon...
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Kelowna, March 2012 – Dawkins & Hawking
To the EditorProfessor Richard Dawkins, biologist and atheist believes in evolution, without a God of course, but he “would abandon it overnight if evidence arose that disproved it.” He dismisses the bible, and all its stories, as man made....
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Central American Golf Championships at Roatan’s Pristine Bay Resort in Honduras
ROATAN, Honduras -- Pristine Bay Resort and its Pete- and Perry Dye-designed Black Pearl Golf Course are ready to host the Central American Golf Championships, February 28-March 3.A field of 180 amateurs from six countries (30 each from Costa Rica, El...
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Dialogue: We Aren’t Our Memories and Experiences
Upstream, a male mallard, its green, florescent head glinting and almost glowing in the bright, late afternoon sunlight, stands in the middle of a washboard section of the stream, waiting.In a minute or two what he’s waiting for comes...
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Leap Year / Leap Day – History, Traditions, and Folklore
ONE OF the convenient fictions we live by holds that there are exactly 365 days in a year. In point of fact, the earth turns roughly 365 and a quarter times on its axis by the time it has completed a...
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Learning Nothing From the Past
Probably the single greatest test of the so-called international community is whether it can prevent or stop genocide and civilian slaughter. By that measure over the last 20 years, the states that collectively comprise the United Nations have failed...
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International Survey Seeks Costa Rica Senior’s Views on the Environment
An international survey of the attitudes of the over 55s to the environment is being launched by a consortium of older people’s organisations, led by the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York (UK) and Simon Fraser University’s...
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Stopping Ageism in Costa Rica
The concept of ageism was coined in 1969 by Dr. Robert Butler, an American gerontologist and the first director...