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Obesity Worries Health Officials |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:51 |
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Time was, 40 years ago, when Costa Rican health officials worried that Ticos were not getting enough to eat or that their diets did not include enough protein. Today, they worry about obesity, especially among youngsters.
It would be easy to go McDonald's bashing here, but like most societal problems it does not lend itself to villains and heroes. Certainly fast foods, imported tastes from the United States, carry their share of the blame but the whole life style of the country has changed.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 September 2010 22:48 |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:09 |
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When ICE, the telephone monopoly, awoke to the necessity of linking Costa Rica to the rest of the world through the Internet in the late 20th century, the phone people created a subsidiary known as RACSA. By law, RACSA was also a monopoly at first but by 2002, spurred by a chorus of complaints about slow service, the parent stepped in with its own Internet service.
Despite competition from ICE, the ugly stepchild grew in a burgeoning market until it had 72% of the action, with 137,000 connections in 2008. Testifying before the Legislative Assemby last week, ICE chief Eduardo Doryan revealed that RACSA now has barely 25% market share, down to 96,000 connections, the Spanish-language paper La Nacion reported..
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 21:50 |
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President Wants More Drug War Aid |
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Written by Rod Hughes
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Monday, 30 August 2010 23:39 |
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla says her country needs more U.S. aid to become a more effective partner in the war against drug trafficking, the Miami Herald reports. As if to underscore her point, police seized more than a ton of cocaine last February and arrested two Mexican men believed to work for the Juarez cartel.
But police wonder how many other big caches they may have missed as Mexican drug cartels use the isthmus increasingly as a highway. Yet, beleaguered Mexico received the lion's share of the Merida initiative funds while Central America and two Caribbean nations received sprinkles of aid.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 00:14 |
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