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DRNA captures 60 monkeys

Submitted on 5 November 2007 - 8:11pm

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The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) has captured over 60 monkeys in Lajas, and the in the next few weeks they are going to tag the animals with transmitters, to release them back in the wild. The idea is to let the tagged monkeys guide the DRNA staff to where other individuals are to try to capture them in packs.

Optimism in spite of closures

Submitted on 3 November 2007 - 5:46pm

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A lot has been said about the closure of some pharmaceutical companies in the last few months, however there is little awareness that this is the result of the changes in the industry World-wide, said some of the leaders in the field. Some entrepreneurs in the industry are confident and sustain that we are going through a transition from the traditional manufacture economy towards a knowledge-based economy.

Insuficient monitoring of the beaches

Submitted on 3 November 2007 - 5:39pm

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Every beach under the Environmental Quality Board has been contaminated, at least once this year, with coliform bacteria. However, this information is almost impossible to obtain. To know if one of the 23 beaches under the Beach Monitoring and Public Notification Program is contaminated the public has to wait 2 weeks to be informed. The Board notifies the public only through mass media about which beaches are above the limits more than twice in a week. Also, the result of the analysis of the beach water takes at least two weeks to arrive to the Board’s office.

The bay turns into a sewer

Submitted on 2 November 2007 - 9:20pm

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The constant sewage discharge, in the San Juan Bay, by a pipe system very close to the Governor’s mansion is only the tip of the iceberg of the marine contamination in this area. The channeling of rivers, the removal of land, the uncontrolled urban development near the coast, the constant movement of ships and fuel spills, the San Jose lagoon and the filling of the Caño Martín Peña are some of the main problems in the area.

Dirty water by the Door of San Juan

Submitted on 2 November 2007 - 8:23pm

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The Door of San Juan is the closest door to the Governor’s mansion and a favorite spot for tourists, couples, school trips and runners. What very few people know is that steps away from this historic door there is a sewage discharge that, according to scientists, has adverse effects over marine life and the health of the people that dare to bathe in those waters. Just below the wooden dock by the Door of San Juan lies an old pipe system that discharges 30% of San Juan’s sewage during rainy days.

A milestone for Puerto Rico

Submitted on 2 November 2007 - 8:12pm

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Puerto Rico was ranked as the world’s 36th most competitive economy of the world, and the second in Latin America, according to the Global Competitiveness Report revealed by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Although Puerto Rico is amongst the advanced economies, which WEF qualifies as a level 3 economy, we still have third-world country issues. Some of these include poor government regulations; high squandering levels; a poor extension of the tax system and low quality of the sciences and mathematics education, as compared with other level 3 economy countries. Puerto Rico occupies the 130th position due to bureaucracy, government relationships and government spending, health and primary education issues.

A laboratory of fear learning

Submitted on 1 November 2007 - 11:19pm

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Fear-inducing experiences are stamped in our memories and only thinking about them causes a reaction that affects the nervous system. Psychiatric knowledge together with neuroscience, which studies the nervous system, could help people eliminate those fear memories. Dr. Gregory Quirk, an American neuroscientist specialized in learning and memory, has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the study of the extinction of fear from a neurological point of view. Ten years ago he established the Laboratory of Fear Learning at the Ponce School of Medicine and since March of this year he moved to the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

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