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...COSTA RICA...
Some countries, including Costa Rica and the Philippines, force companies to pay millions of dollars for the right to "bioprospect" in their jungles. Others have significantly restricted researchers' access: Mexico recently canceled a $2.5 million, U.S.-led drug-prospecting project when Maya Indians in Chiapas complained. But Royero and the Venezuelan government are on the movement's cutting edge: they are developing an unprecedented, classified database of plants and animals that have commercial potential as medicines and foods. Companies that see a scientifically verified, patented discovery advertised on the database would pay--through the central government, to the appropriate tribe...
...Harvard has realized that it must inculcate a spirit of internationalism in its students, Ramirez has become more cosmopolitan to reap the full benefits of the global economy: “I like to travel, man. I been to Europe—you know, Spain. Dominican, Aruba, Costa Rica. Just to learn about different cultures. You know where I want to go? I want to go to China. I want to go and see—it’s a city that I don’t know how to say the name. It’s the Prohibit...
...Ruddigore” in 2005. Friends spoke of Fienning’s exuberance and ability to quickly engage others. Sabrina M. Forte ’08, who met Fienning through their mutual involvement with Phillips Brooks House Association, recalled a party for volunteers in Costa Rica, where they were both working as teachers in local schools. She said that after Fienning noticed that the only people not dancing were a group of older women, he promptly stepped over and chose a partner. By the end of the night, she said, he had danced with “every woman over...
...matter how ritzy, just won't do. "The resort sector was a little tired and cookie cutter," says America Online founder and former chairman Steve Case. His own frustration as a traveler led him in August to invest in Cacique, an $800million, eco-friendly resort planned for Costa Rica's northwest coast. To stand out in the crowded luxury field, a boast about sheets with a thread count of 1,200 isn't enough. So Case and other hotel developers are trying to create a new model for luxury. Unlike the typical, walled-off resort, Cacique's hotel rooms...