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Home
And Personal Security
A Major Concern For Year End
This is the time to enjoy the year end
activities and celebrations, but also a time
for criminals, taking advantage of the many
who let down their guard. In the last week
of the year, history shows an increase of
attacks on pedestrians, mainly in the
downtown core and home robberies. |
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Beware, Today
Is Pranks Day
December 28 is Día de los Santos Innocentes,
a day when pranks are played on friends and
foes, being converted from the day of the
Massacre of the Innocents, an episode of
mass infanticide by the King of Judea, Herod
the Great, that appears in the Gospel of
Matthew 2:16-18
INS
Wants To Assure A Safe Holiday
The Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) -
state insurer - began their year end
campaign to prevent traffic accidents, fire
and other emergencies.
Costa Rican Bonilla wins 11th stage of Costa
Rica Tour
Costa Rican cyclist Jose Adrian Bonilla of
Citibank-Economy Rent a Car-Blue team won
the 11th stage of the Costa Rican
International Tour on Sunday.
Is
Spanish discriminatory?
"My conclusion is that it is so," says José
Luis Aliaga Jiménez, professor in
Linguistics of the Universidad de Zaragoza.
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NICARAGUA
Can
U.S. Baseball Diplomacy Get the Save in
Nicaragua?
MANAGUA - Any kid who has ever oiled a baseball glove in February while wishing the snow would melt — or an adult who still cries every time Field of Dreams is shown on cable — knows that baseball is far more than just a game.
GUATEMALA
Fire
Arms Attacks, Epidemic in Guatemala
GUATEMALA - The increase of fire arms
attacks is considered a pandemic in
Guatemala by government authorities.
PAMANA
Taiwan Defends Plane Donation to Panama
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Presidential Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs defended the planned donation of a plane to Panama Monday, denying dollar diplomacy was still alive. |
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BRAZIL
Paraguay Detains Brazil's Most Wanted Drug
Trafficker
BUENOS AIRES - The Paraguayan National
Anti-Drug Ministry (Senad) on Sunday
detained Jarvis Chimenes Pavao, Brazil's
most wanted drug trafficker.
VENEZUELA
Venezuela Predicts Anti-US Interference
Fight
CARACAS - enezuelan President Hugo Chavez
asserted on Sunday that the US
interventionist policy in Latin America will
bring challenges and struggles in 2010 to
preserve integrity and sovereignty of the
regional countries.
COLOMBIA
Colombia
To Be A Threat In 2010: Chavez
CARACAS - Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez foresees 2010 to be
a difficult year for Venezuela,
mostly because of U.S. military
presence in neighboring
Colombia.
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GENDER/LANGUAGE:
Rejecting the Derogatory 'Feminine'
What happens to language and the way women
are addressed when they start to occupy
positions of responsibility? Well, it
depends on the language. In Italian, most
women prefer the masculine titles, because
the feminine version (when it exists) is
considered ludicrous, even derogatory.
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Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces |
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So What
Is 3G
And Do
You
Really
Need It?
By the
end of
the
year,
Costa
Rica, by
way of
the
Instituto
Costarricense
de
Electricidad
(ICE)
will
join the
rest of
the
world
with the
introduction
of the
3rd
generation,
better
known as
3G,
cellular
network.
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