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FDA overseas offices struggle to meet growing import demands

By Laurel Adams

During the past year, information gathered by Food and Drug Administration staff in new overseas offices led to import bulletins warning of

Excerpts from this story referencing "Costa Rica":

"… d Mumbai in India; Brussels, London, and Parma in Europe; and in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Mexico City.FAST FACT: The FDA regulates imports of food, drugs, and …"

The looting of Russia

By David E. Kaplan and Christian Caryl

WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked

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"… . “They took all my shares and left me penniless, like an empty sack, in Costa Rica,” Kozlenok later said. Investigators, however, believe he was paid off a …"

Open your mind

By Stephen Engelberg

NEW YORK, March 1, 1999 — Day-to-day, investigative reporting is about sweat and perseverance. Forget about the widely held view that govern

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"… s being used by contra rebels to ferry supplies to Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. And, LeMoyne said excitedly, “Guess what? The local CIA officials in Sa …"

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Critics say federal student privacy law misused by colleges

Reports of NCAA football violations, lists of who gets free tickets to big games, and disciplinary records of students found responsible for

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"… ishing a leaked internal report about a trip the college president took to Costa Rica.In these examples and many others, the colleges said their hands were tied …"

Exporting prices

By M. Asif Ismail

Drug makers' trade group makes the industry's priorities U.S. trade policy

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"… epublic-Central American Free Trade Agreement involving the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, h …"

Big tobacco’s New York black market

By Marina Walker Guevara and Kate Willson

How America’s top cigarette firms fueled a billion-dollar underground trade

Excerpts from this story referencing "Costa Rica":

"… another, and financing the murder of a third. A jury found the 41-year-old Costa Rica native not guilty on everything, except for a firearms charge and conspira …"

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Special report: Dim chance for global cloning ban

By M. Asif Ismail

More than 150 countries have no law on the books that bars reproductive cloning

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"… breadth of such a treaty.A group of nations, led by the United States and Costa Rica, want a total ban on human cloning. Their view is in sync with the Vatican …"

"… is in sync with the Vatican, which has also called for a comprehensive ban.Costa Rica is planning to submit a revised proposal calling for a total ban on clonin …"

"… g to a draft resolution filed by Bruno Stagno, permanent representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations, with Secretary General Kofi Annan on April 2, 2003. …"

"… te. They said the American insistence on a comprehensive ban—and that of Costa Rica, its main ally on the issue—makes any universally accepted treaty bannin …"

International cloning timeline

By Alexander Cohen

Tracking embryo research and cloning efforts from 1996 to 2004

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"… tate to approve a law legalizing therapeutic cloning.October 2003 – Both Costa Rica and Belgium introduce competing resolutions addressing cloning in a United …"

"… ompeting resolutions addressing cloning in a United Nations committee. The Costa Rican resolution, backed by the United States and 43 other countries, calls for …"

A wealth of advice

By Sandy Bergo

Nearly $2 billion flowed through consultants in 2003-2004 federal elections

Excerpts from this story referencing "Costa Rica":

"… ards that depict him as a tourist wearing a loud shirt and shorts in Rome, Costa Rica, and Antigua — with all expenses paid by "Washington special interests." …"

Inspectors struggle to keep up with flood of imports

By Brad Racino

Food imports approved for use in the U.S. in an unexpected way

Excerpts from this story referencing "Costa Rica":

"… ices in several large food-exporting countries, including China, India and Costa Rica, and has boosted the number of inspections in other countries in an attemp …"

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