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After a fortnight of shilly shallying over the Egyptian crisis, the Obama Administration, having obtained the backing of the feckless Europeans, has come down firmly on the side of “gradual transition.” In other words, Mubarak and his minions will...

I drive through town to the semi-wilderness area just beyond this small city. Though a Friday with spring-like temperatures, college kids haven’t yet begun to stream into the townspeople’s sanctuary, a weekend playground for many of the students.It hasn’t...

A young Egyptian, his face covered in blood from the blows of security police batons in Mubarak’s police state, shouts with quiet fury but no vengeance: “This is all they have! This is all they have!”Amongst many remarkable things...

Taxi drivers in Puerto Viejo took action against poor road conditions. Tuesday, February 1, dozens of cabbies blocked all routes into and out of town.

A volunteer group, the Vicinos Naccion, has created and implemented a beach cleaning and protection education group for the three beaches of Ballena National Park: Playa Uvita, Playa Colonia, and Playa Pinuelas ecosystems.

It’s Saturday when people have more time to read. A puff piece with a serious title in the New York Times is the most popular article in America’s leading newspaper today. Its title? “How Meditation May Change the Brain.”It’s...

The school is a not for profit project, serving Kinder-12th grade, which according to its website has a mission to, “create a bilingual educational setting…where students learn, explore, and grow with respect and attention to the environment, diversity and social aspects that exist around us.”

Where did man go wrong? The question sounds anachronistic in more ways than one. It’s a right question in general though, and a good starting point.Why is it important? Because core insights into the causes of why man is...

Belief systems are the bane of humankind. Usually belief systems are the foundation of religions. But atheism can be a belief system as well.Truth be told, there are two kinds of atheism---hard atheism, and soft atheism. The former is...