Archive for December 12th, 2007

Chang’s Ad Astra, NASA Ink Pact

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Dr. Franklin Chang’s Ad Astra rocket lab in Guanacaste and NASA formally signed a cooperative agreement (reported last week in The Tico Times), giving NASA first grabs on discoveries from Astra’s experiments with the plasma rocket engine.
When reported by the English-language weekly last […]

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Education Ministry Paying Dead Personnel

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Despite the year old Administration that has vowed to set the country to rights, the Ministry of Education doesn’t seem to have things sorted out yet. The Comptroller General’s office reported this week that the ministry has been paying 235 dead people, at least one of which just […]

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