1 Snake : So a distinguished scholar from the Costa Rican government to Colombia?

2 It's a hardscrabble life, but getting better, for Costa Rican campesinos such as this young woman in Guanacaste province.

3 from a Costa Rican film producer named Francisco Guerrero, linking to a blog post on a site called Wake Up from Your Slumber that reiterated the Adbusters call to action ( r.reuters.com/vuc54s).

4 The Costa Rican Chamber of Construction says unregulated building is still going on, and in Tamarindo the most prominent feature is its building sites swarming with laborers.

5 Gallery: Tropical Forest Wildlife Baby white - faced capuchin monkeys play in a Costa Rican forest.

6 Baby white - faced capuchin monkeys play in a Costa Rican rain forest.

7 After dragging my 12-year-old daughter through Honduran slums and Nicaraguan villages on this trip, she was delighted to see a Costa Rican beach and stroll through a national park.

8 The col ? ? n was introduced in 1896,[] replacing the Costa Rican peso.

9 Searching Bloomberg's database, I found seven: the Argentine peso, the Icelandic krona, the Costa Rican colon, the Pakistani rupee, the Nigerian naira, the Vietnamese dong and the Iranian rial.

10 Costa Rica , where he attended the inauguration of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on Monday.