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Students to represent Puerto Rico in the regional Mathematics Olympics

Submitted on 21 May 2007 - 1:51pm

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Sara Rodríguez Martínez, of Colegio Espíritu Santo, San Juan; George Arzeno Soltero, of Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, San Juan; Alan Wagner Rodríguez, of Baldwin School, Guaynabo; and Eduardo Acevedo Candelaria, of the Ramírez de Arellano-Hostos School, Añasco will represent Puerto Rico in the Mathematics Olympics of the Caribbean and Central America 2007, in Venezuela form June 1st to the 9th, 2007. They all received medals for their outstanding performance in the local competition, in which more than 3,000 students participated. The students had to solve long and complicated problems on numbers theory, combinatorial, algebra and geometry.

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Students create a plant nursery

Submitted on 21 May 2007 - 11:47am

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Students of the Luis Muñoz Marín High School in Barranquitas have created “Biocomiso” (Bio-trust), a plant nursery where they can practice their teachings in biology and strengthen communitarian environmental conservation initiatives. With the nursery, sponsored by the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust under the Friend School Program, they are not only helping reforestation and educational efforts, but they are helping their school, since it can generate revenues for the school, and provide a place for student association activities.

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Historical celebration in Fajardo

Submitted on 21 May 2007 - 10:06am

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The Puerto Rico Conservation Trust had the “Fish and Arepa Festival” to celebrate the transfer of the Fajardo Lighthouse to this non-profit organization. Since 1975, the Trust is the owner of the 428-acre natural reserve. The organization, based in Old San Juan, administered the lighthouse and the surrounding acres for the past 17 years, by a lease with the U.S. Coast Guard. But In April 30, this organization, which mission is to preserve and honor the Island’s natural resources, received the property deed for the lighthouse and the surrounding land.

New digital map for different agencies

Submitted on 17 May 2007 - 5:51pm

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Various government agencies will have a digital high precision photograph map that will be updated yearly and will be useful for a range of things, from delimiting flooding prone areas to identify improvements to properties to keep home values updated. The program consists of aerial photographs and data collection by LIDAR (“Light Detection and Ranging”) technology, to measure the altitude of the land and infrared images are used to identify vegetable species.

Diaz prefers development to the environment

Submitted on 17 May 2007 - 4:11pm

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Senator Carlos Diaz –who leads the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Issues Commission-, admitted without reserves that his priority is not the environment. When asked if preserving the environment was not a priority for him or if he would favor measures to protect the natural resources in the land that would be comprised by the Northeast Corridor, Diaz said: “I am pro-development, not necessarily pro-environment”.

Abraxis BioScience creates 200 jobs

Submitted on 16 May 2007 - 12:33pm

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Abraxis BioScience, a biopharmaceutical company, inaugurated yesterday their palnt in Barceloneta, which was acquired from Pfizer at a cost of $32.5 million, for the initial production of 24 injectable chemical and biological drugs. The plant will create 200 jobs, and its actually operating at 50% capacity. They expect to add other drugs to their production line, and add 400 to 500 employees, for when they operate at full capacity by the end of 2008.

The sea will move inland

Submitted on 15 May 2007 - 2:29pm

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As a Caribbean island, only 100 x 35 miles, Puerto Rico is more exposed than other countries to the already occurring consequences of climate change. We are already observing an increase in the sea level and a consequent increase in coastal erosion, which, as years go by, will cause coastal flooding to move inland and be deeper, relative to the present coastal infrastructure.

Hunting dreams and miracles

Submitted on 15 May 2007 - 12:10pm

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Doctor Luis José Almodóvar Fábregas, neurosurgeon, chief resident of the neurosurgery section of the Medical Center’s University Hospital, is days away from graduating from the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico in a specialty very few accomplish. Once he has achieved this goal, he will go outside of Puerto Rico to compliment his skills. A year ago he was accepted in the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas, where he will complete a subspecialization in oncologic neurosurgery. Once he concludes his training, he will become the first Puerto Rican in doing this. Almodóvar Fábregas is also an inventor. He invented an instrument which is waiting for its patent, while the prototype is being made. The instrument is a rotary needle carrier that allows more efficient suturing and has a moving range that other instruments lack. This carrier will be “universal”, for right and left-handed persons, like doctor Almodóvar Fábregas.

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