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I sit at a walk-in picnic site overlooking the swollen stream. A steady flow of people goes by on the pedestrian park road—runners, bikers, walkers, and the occasional rollerblader. Intensely observing the movement of thought/emotion with no more interference...

From Tico Times - The Inter-American Development Bank (BID) approved $670 million in loans to finance the Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam – the most complex hydroelectric project ever built in Costa Rica – near the Caribbean slope town of Siquirres.The...

Most people’s ingrained perceptions of Puntarenas in the past were negative.  I must admit when I was heading on the bus from San Jose to this Central Pacific port town I was prepared for the worst.  I was told...

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...