Daily Archives: July 6, 2012

Atenas man is on a mission promoting defensive pistolcraft

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Paul Furlong
Atenas man is on a mission promoting defensive pistolcraft

My first confrontation with a gun was in the early 60s while in the Navy. Though at sea most of the time, I kept my motorcycles in the back of Sam’s Used Foreign Cars, in Norfolk, Virginia. Working late one … Continue reading →

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A modest proposal to consider the psychic and social capital

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Jo Stuart

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, feels the United States is in trouble and has asked people to report on what they have done to make things better or for their ideas of how to help. What he is referring to … Continue reading →

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Now Costa Rica has more trees than people, minister reports

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Aaron Knapp
Now Costa Rica has more trees than people, minister reports

In a campaign to fight deforestation in Costa Rica, government agencies, private organizations and universities have been working to plant more trees. Now the Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía has celebrated the planting of its 4,615,518th tree. At the event, … Continue reading →

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Obama says U.S. is acting against Chinese car tariffs

Posted on July 6, 2012 by A.M. Costa Rica Wire Services

President Barack Obama says China is creating an unfair playing field by imposing excessive duties on exports of American automobiles. The president spoke during a campaign visit to a city where many residents work at an automobile factory. Obama went … Continue reading →

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FBI will close down servers for virus victims

Posted on July 6, 2012 by A.M. Costa Rica Wire Services

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world could be in for an unwelcome surprise Monday, unless they check their computers now for malware that infected their machines a year ago. The virus caused by Eastern European computer hackers will … Continue reading →

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Head of man in grim video turns up in Montreal park

Posted on July 6, 2012 by A.M. Costa Rica Wire Services

Police in the eastern Canadian city of Montreal say forensic tests have confirmed that a human head found in a park belongs to a Chinese university student who was killed and dismembered in May. The severed head of Jun Lin, … Continue reading →

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Teatro Jacó has full slate of comedy for July

Posted on July 6, 2012 by A.M. Costa Rica Staff

This month Jacó Beach will be the scene of virtually non-stop comedy with Teatro Jaco’s inaugural “JACO Ha Ha 2012,” featuring two weekends of acts from the United States, two weekends of Costa Rican acts and comedy workshops in both … Continue reading →

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