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...Pura Vida. With its sweeping views of the Pacific, Hotel La Mariposa in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, is a popular destination (satisfied guests include TIME.com's deputy photo editor), with rooms starting at $150. You can go zip-lining through the rain-forest canopy, sport fishing or whitewater rafting. Not an über-outdoorsman? Then head down to the beach, order cocktails at the hotel's three pools or take a free shuttle to the crown jewel of the region: Manuel Antonio National Park, where the jungle is brimming with howler, white-faced and squirrel monkeys. Try a guided hike...
...covered with his never-flagging pencil enough of charta pura ((white paper)) to placard the whole walls of China, and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy." So ran one obituary for Thomas Rowlandson when he died in 1827 at the age of 70. It was not far off. This recorder of the life of Georgian and Regency England left a prodigious number of watercolors, drawings and prints behind him -- perhaps 10,000, though nobody has ever counted them up -- and there is no catalogue raisonne of his work...
...cast of characters following Clifford's abbreviated two-plus inning stint were, in order of appearance: Jamie Werly, Ken Petkunas, Tom Pura, and Bob Larson. Doling out 12 walks and two gopher balls to the Cornellians, the Crimson pitching staff was ineffective in almost every inning...
...Pura took the mound for Harvard in the bottom of the first, and six men later he was back on the bench. Columbia nailed the lefty for six consecutive hits to make the score 4-3, then picked on reliever Paul McOsker for two more hits and another marker before retiring for the inning...
Lowell stormed back in the third quarter with two unanswered touchdowns. Bill Tennis intercepted a Brody aerial, turned around, and unleashed a bomb to Tom Pura in the clear for a quick six. The conversion attempt failed. Lowell then struck on a twisting reception by J.Q. Landers. Pura and Tennis connected on the point after to put Lowell...