IT’S NOT EASY BEING A PELICAN IN COSTA RICA—NOR A PORPOISE NOR AN ALLIGATOR EITHER. These animals, among others, are given protection in a Marine Park in Puntarenas from the hazards of their life styles (like water dives of pelicans) and of the human animals who sometimes harass them. A gated park provides a [...]
TERRORISTS PLAYING AROUND THE POWDER KEG IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA. (Asia Times) This is the view of Victor Kotsev in noting that the “fog of war” has descended on the Middle East with the pair of bombings of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and members of the Assad government in Damascus. While [...]
COPENHAGEN: THE NORDIC TASTE FOOD FAIR AND MUSIC RAVE WILL BE CANCELLED THIS YEAR. (Copenhagen Post) This is one fall-out from recent discovery of threat of ammonia leak from an underground cooling facility in the former meat-packing district of Kodboyen, now converted to “trendy” shops and tourist attractions. The fear is that the tourist-prized “Nordic taste” will be spoiled [...]
CLOCK IS TICKING AND ALARMS ARE SOUNDING FOR ANTI-TOBACCO LEGISLATION IN COSTA RICA. (Tico Times) With legislation to raise tobacco taxes and prohibit smoking in public places floundering in Legislative Assembly, anti-tobacco group erects a large clock outside Assembly building in San Jose, which is set to sound an alarm every 2 hours and 40 [...]
By Jerry D. Rose I returned last week from a 10-day tour of Costa Rica. While the tour was organized by Caravan as a “natural paradise” tour emphasizing close encounters with the wild life of the country I was, understandably enough, more interested in what information I could garner about the “human life” of the [...]
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