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...
Concern about copyright laws have led to Pirate Party members being elected in Spain, Austria, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and especially Germany in recent years. The movement's founder weighs in on the latest rounds of attempts to fix copyright...
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, April 18 (Reuters) - Costa Rican president Laura Chinchilla announced a new set of measures to contain the country's growing fiscal deficit, after a draft tax reform bill was thrown out by a high court...
In most interviews for public reading or viewing, indeed in nearly all of them, a strict and unspoken format is followed. The interviewer asks questions and the interviewee gives answers. There is a radically different approach—questioning together.
Humankind faces an...
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THE FUTURE OF COSTA RICA: LEADING BIOFUEL PRODUCTION
Over the years, terms like construction, development and real estate have failed to take into consideration the words sustainability and...
