Archive for December 17th, 2007

350,000 GSM Cell Lines Available

Monday, December 17th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
ICE, the government telecommunications monopoly, has released 350,000 GSM cellular telephone lines for sale. If this seems too good to be true, it is; 200,000 have already been reserved.
Still, it was good news for a country in which the demand for cell phone […]

Raabe Takes Lead in Tour of Costa Rica

Monday, December 17th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican Henry Raabe of the BCR-Pizza Hut bicycle racing team grabbed the lead away from Cuban Ardonis Cardozo yesterday in the fourth phase of the Vuelta de Costa Rica (Tour of Costa Rica). Raabe leads the individual competition by two minutes.
This phase […]

Saprissa Wins by Tying Alajuela, 1-1

Monday, December 17th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Saprissa stretched to 16 its string of “classics” (games with Alajuela) without losing but was only able to tie Sunday 1-1. But this was enough to send the “purple monster” to the final with Heredia in the Opening Tournament, which is actually the first half of the regular […]

Timelines

Monday, December 17th, 2007

December 17, 2007
Estimated times for beginning or ending projects are at best, an estimate. I think that my mechanic and my builder depend on everything going perfectly to calculate times. Friday, Carlos said it would take one more week to finish the house. […]