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Why Meditate?
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreLiving in a cultural desert, as we do in the West, and as more and more people do in this vapid global society, what is our response? Is it to just "go with the flow" as...
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Good News After a week of Devastating Weather
TCRN STAFF:The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) - national weather service - said we saw the effects of Thomas that is now leaving the Caribbean, but soaked Costa Rica for almost three days straight, causing landslides and flooding in many...
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The Human Capacity for Insight
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreWhen asked where the capacity to be creative comes from, Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate neuroscientist, answers very assertively: “It comes from the brain!”Statements such as this reflect a growing scientism in the Western world,...
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Second Day of National Emergency – hard rains continue causing havoc
UPDATE: Second day of National Emergency. Rains are expected to continue for 2 more days. A large flash flood completely destroyed the neighborhood Lourdes, located in Aserrí. Throughout the effected areas there are 23 dead and 10 are known...
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Just Like Us?
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreJane Goodall, the aging but still very active doyenne of chimpanzee studies in the Gombe Reserve, Tanzania, was interviewed recently on America’s premier TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.” Watch Video. In the most evocative moment of...
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Running Amok and Among
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreMartin LeFevre: It’s autumn in northern California, and the weather has changed with the season. Though cloudier and cooler, we’ve had little rain as yet.The leaves are beginning to turn, but it’s still warm enough...
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A Tanzanian and Guantánamo
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreAhmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian accused of playing a role in Al Qaeda's bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.He is the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in...
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Costa Rica considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas
TCRN STAFF:Costa Rican migration authorities are considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas to enter the country.We believe it is time to assess the desirability of more restrictive entry of citizens of both nations, as we have with Colombia and...
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Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Featured Columnist – Political Correspondent - Latin American Relations
Jennifer MayerTCRN STAFF:
The Costa Rica News.com
Jennifer Mayer“Don’t be such a Nica”. It may shock many that this insult is commonly heard around Costa Rica. It could come from the mouth of a...
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Spiritual Insight and Political Strategy?
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevreCan spiritual insight and political strategy go together? That¹s not an academic question to me, but a pressing, even personal one.There was a time, indeed the vast bulk of human history, when these two dimensions of...
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Costa Rica Will Award Prizes For the Best Cell Phone Photos Taken By Seniors
The Costa Rican Gerontological Association (Ageco) is now open for registration for its seventh cell phone photography contest for...