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San Joaquin de Flores is a quaint town located just outside of Heredia about 15 minutes outside of San Jose.  It is known for its safety, and very tranquil atmosphere.  The main street is easy to pass by if...

Many people come to Costa Rica for the nightlife. It’s fun to party and there is no shortage of places to go in San Jose a noche. “Yeah, I love the nature too”. Well, get out and see it....

Q&A: Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, talks about the implications of the rise of China and what it means for the United States.There have been other periods in recent American history where the...

A hundred years after its sinking, Titanic rests on a muddy plain, torn apart, scattered, slowly eroding into the eternal darkness of the sea. It is a ghost town, its well-preserved decks and artifacts a powerful reminder of the...

This past week I had a four-way ‘skype dialogue’ with three fellows—two on the other side of the pond, in England and Ireland, and two on each side of this continent. It was a lesson in the difference between...

(RTTNews) - A Costa Rican diplomat who was abducted in the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas earlier this week has been released unharmed by his captors, Venezuelan officials said Tuesday.In a Twitter message posted Tuesday, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek...

As the 2012 Summer Games in London approach, the fight against doping continues. Despite notable progress in testing and enforcement, we’re still a great distance from the eradication of steroid use in sports. In order to close the gap...

Some sentences are so pregnant with implications that they seem overdue for giving birth to revolutionary insight. Here’s an example: “Burial in the simple Neanderthal style falls short of furnishing us with convincing proof of symbolic activity among these...

Richard Abrams, now retired and living near Playa Dominical, Costa Rica, worked as a lifeguard in Imperial Beach for 18 years.He was hired and trained by Dempsey Holder and mentored by Tom Keck. Late in February, Richard rescued local...

The dissected brain cannot have insight. That is as true metaphorically as it is literally.Insight, whether as a flash of direct perception in a given context, or a state of unmediated awareness without limit, is always whole.The neuroscience popularizer...