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Maintaining that level of integrity called for months of filming in the hot jungles of Puerto Rico as well as extensive military training before shooting could even begin. Both men learned how to handle and fire many of the weapons that they use in the film and also underwent basic tactical training so they could realistically portray a coordinated military team...
...process to reverse the process where we make petroleum into plastic, to make all this throwaway plastic back into petroleum? I have been to the slums of Mumbai where they recycle plastic as plastic. Wouldn't be better to turn it back into petroleum? Stephen M. Mattox, PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO...
Sebastián first fell in love with biology at the University of Puerto Rico, not far from where he was born. His eyes light up as he recounts reading Harvard luminary Stephen J. Gould’s account of the Burgess Fossils, which hold an exalted place in the pantheon of evolutionary biology. Four weeks ago, he taught a class using those very fossils. “For someone like me, it’s like carrying Bono’s guitar, if you’re a rock fan,” he says. “That?...
Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. Seeing the family's caramel complexion, the Census taker asks which race he should put down for them - white or black. To which the family answers: "Puerto Rican...
...that exists at an almost unimaginable distance, in both space and time, and contributing a bit of knowledge about it can be humbling and satisfying. "Every galaxy has a story to tell. They are beautiful, mysterious, and show how amazing our universe is," says Aida Berges, a homemaker in Puerto Rico who has classified 150,000 galaxies - at one point putting in 16-hour days. "It was love at first sight when I started in Galaxy Zoo ... It is a magical place, and it feels like coming home at last." (See pictures of five nations' space programs...