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HOUSTON—A clerical error left Puntarenas starting forward Michael Barrantes off the official list of players last night. Did this account for the 2-0 loss by the Costa Rican club against the Houston Dynamos?
Certainly, the Puntarenas coach Luis Diego Araez thinks so. He told the sportswriter for the daily Al Dia that losing his starter “imbalanced our […]

Out every 10 Costa Ricans between the ages of 18 and 24, three enroll in either a public or private university, reported Costa Rica’s leading daily, La Nacion, today. This percentage nearly doubled between 1984 and the year 2000.
This translated into 155,000 students out of 577,000 of university enrollment age. Costa Roca’s education system has raised […]