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Feminist theorist and author Elisabeth Badinter argues women are being shackled by expectations of what it takes to be a good mother.Women once again need to start talking frankly to each other about what it means to be a...

China's building boom has been dominated by soaring glass skyscrapers and contemporary designs inspired by the West. Wang Shu, recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, questions the wisdom of this approach.You’ve won the world’s most prestigious architecture prize...

April 27, 2012, San José, Costa Rica – In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Nature Air is offering $5 flights for travel during the month of June 2012. Travellers can book a domestic flight to any of Nature Air’s...

"A one stop shop for your competitive surfing needs," is what former ASP photographer and Prodigy Competitive Surf Program cofounder Sean Rowland likes to call it. "We do it all, from video and photo review, coaching, training and heat strategy."Along with...

Paleo-anthropologists are generally of the view, in the words of Ian Tattersall, that there has never been a more fateful arrival on the biological scene than that of our extraordinary species. Old anthropocentrism dies hard.Though the first fully modern...

“Men go first, and if it works, women follow.” A Russian woman told me that proverb in Moscow many years ago. It’s interesting to see how women and men react to it these days. Most men scoff; most women...

A former American hostage in Iran says it’s time for the United States and Iran to stop demonizing each other and start talking about things they can agree on.In mid-April, after more than a year of posturing, Iran again...

Columbus, OH (Sports Network) - The Columbus Crew signed Costa Rican striker Jairo Arrieta on Thursday, but he not be available until the transfer window opens June 27.The 28-year-old Arrieta, who earned his first cap for Costa Rica last...

If you want to understand how parlous the political culture has become in America, just look at the stories that dogged us last week regarding the two candidates for the most powerful office in the world.First there’s the ongoing...

When he was a young man living in Costa Rica, Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz wrote a letter to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration saying he "wanted to come to the United States and be an astronaut."He got back...