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Costa Rica Entertainment – The French Alliance and French Embassy, along with help from the embassies of Canada, Switzerland, Haiti, Belgium, Monaco and Lebanon, are bringing special events to Costa…

There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, many of them by dwindling groups of indigenous people. By the end of this century, it is projected that there…

In the first century, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, working in the great library in Alexandria, produced his earth-centered system of the universe. The Ptolemaic world-view held sway until the 16th…

A flock of small birds lands in the shallows, and a few begin furiously beating their wings in the water. More join in, and suddenly there are a dozen birds…

Though parochial minds think in terms of ‘the future of America,’ or ‘the future of Latin America,’ or ‘the future of Africa,’ the issue now, as never before in human…

“Men have become women, and women have become men,” the young woman passionately proclaimed as we stood talking in the park. More than half my age, she succinctly voiced something…

Nearly 24 hours of wind have stripped most of the remaining leaves from the trees. Suddenly it is winter, such as it is in the lowlands of northern California.

World News – Construction sites are becoming popular scenes for discoveries of everything from prehistoric mammoth fossils to newly discovered spider species. In following that trend, a recent construction project near…