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...Costa Rica's remote airstrips, meanwhile, are increasingly being used for plane-refueling stops, prompting plans to build a $20 million U.S.-funded radar station on the country's Pacific Coast. And in Panama the effort to shut down money-laundering operations has met with limited success. American- installed President Guillermo Endara is resisting U.S. pressure to lift some bank secrecy laws for fear of damaging the industry...
Sure enough, Grant soon is choppering down on an island off Costa Rica. He notices a tree trunk, graceful and limbless, rising 50 ft. above the surrounding vegetation. It turns and looks at him. Yes, a dinosaur. An entire island crawling and stomping with them, in fact, intended to be the world's most exciting theme park, as soon as a few flaws are worked...
...children. Twelve million youngsters have no medical coverage; 5 million teeter on the edge of homelessness. Because of poor prenatal care, a baby born in the shadow of the White House is now more likely to die in the first year of life than a baby born in Costa Rica...
...University spokesperson Peter Costa said yesterday that "the University made every attempt to get the most recent and most accurate addresses of the undergraduates." Costa said that, although he was aware of complications in determining the addresses, he had not learned of the resulting confusion...
...Costa said he was unable to speculate about the scope of the mistake. But residents of most of the houses noticed that the mailing missed them at their current addresses...