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These clashing interests and interesting clashes all converge in a nefarious scheme to mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE SMILEY: HOW HIGH THE MOO? | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...Central American book will add coverage of El Salvador and Panama and expand that on Costa Rica, Fitzpatrick said...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Let's Go Guides Expanding Coverage | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...admitted in November that she had pushed her car into a lake with the toddlers strapped inside. In court today, Smith sobbed as the murder charges were read aloud, then returned to the defense table as her lawyer said she was not yet ready to enter a plea. (Judge Costa Pleiconas, who set the trial date for April 24, entered an innocent plea on her behalf.) If Smith is found guilty, prosecutor Tommy Pope said, he'll ask to have her executed in the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SMITH . . . FACING THE CHAIR | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...other hand, Costa Produce, the vendor that supplied vegetables in the Union, "checked out very, very fine," Berry said...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Norwalk Virus Cited as Cause Of Epidemic | 1/4/1995 | See Source »

...tells these potential supporters that he understands Hispanic concerns because one of his business partners is the former dean of a Costa Rican business school...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Romney Gains Momentum As He Keeps On Running | 10/21/1994 | See Source »

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