Costa Rica stories:
Flag-raising For 32 Nations Marks WCup Milestone
Nov 19th, 2009 - CBS News
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The flags of the 32 nations that qualified for the 2010 World Cup are flying in Johannesburg. A flag-raising ceremony livened by dancers, a choir and...
World Cup teams are locked, with loaded questions for some
Nov 19th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Fury in Ireland. Disillusionment in Russia. Regret in Costa Rica.
The final day of qualifying for soccer's 2010 World Cup in South Africa brought a gamut of emotions Wednesday...Uruguay coach dedicates qualification to the kids - FIFA World Cup 2010
Nov 18th, 2009 - ESPN
Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez dedicated his World Cup qualification to the children of the South American nation after it claimed the last place at the 2010 finals in South Africa.
US player Charlie Davies released from hospital
Nov 10th, 2009 - USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forward Charlie Davies was released from a Washington hospital on Tuesday nearly a month after a car accident killed a fellow passenger. The 23-year-old Davis underwent several surgeries after the car crash...
US ties; Honduras in
Oct 15th, 2009 - Boston
Jonathan Bornstein headed in a corner kick in the fifth minute of stoppage time, giving the United States a 2-2 tie against Costa Rica in Washington last night, a decision that punched Honduras's ticket to next year's World Cup.
Costa Rica videos from YouTube:
![COSTA RICA [official promo ICT]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/V5hA-i-1Ssg/default.jpg)
8:24COSTA RICA [official promo ICT]
Promotional video elaborated by the Costa Rican Tourism Board [Instituto Costarricense de Turismo] ICT Ver visitcostarica.com
6:37Costa Rica - Welcome to Paradise
COSTA RICA IS: active volcanoes, golf, diving, fishing, paragliding, dolphin and whale watch, Coco Island adventure, turtle nesting, rainforest and cloud forest, plantations and processing plants of coffee ...
3:36Costa Rica Eco-Tourism
Successful ecotourism on the Osa peninsula raises new challenges.
1:36Earthquake in Costa Rica, January 8th, 2009, During the Taping of the TV Program Qué Rico
Dr. William Paer Fairmont, Clinical Psychologist, was listening to the story of a television viewer in order to answer her questions when all of a sudden...EARTHQUAKE! 6.2 on the Richter Scale ...
Costa Rica from WikiPedia:
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica, pronounced [re?pu?lika ðe ?kosta ?rika]) is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
Costa Rica, which translates literally as "Rich Coast", was the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish its army. Costa Rica has consistently been among the top Latin American countries in the Human Development Index, ranking 50th in 2006. The country is ranked 5th in the world, and 1st among the Americas, in terms of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index. In 2007 the Costa Rican government announced plans for Costa Rica to become the first carbon neutral country by 2021. According to the New Economics Foundation, Costa Rica ranks first in the Happy Planet Index and is the greenest country in the world. The HPI measures how much of the Earth's resources nations use and how long and happy a life their citizens enjoy as a result.
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