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Las Salinas fauna is threatened

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According to biologist Pier J. Banchs, the touristic residential project Las Haciendas in Ponce will reduce the Las Salinas lagoon capacity to capture water by up to 10.5%, which will affect the survival of hundreds of birds that depend on this body of water adn its mangrove swamps.

Bristol will close at the end of 2008

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Bristol-Myers Squibb announced today that it will close its plant in Barceloneta at the end of 2008. The closing is the result of "a reduction on the demand of drugs manufactured in that location and the company's estrategy to optimize manufacture" and the tranformation of the pharmaceutical company towards being a biopharmaceutical company.

Innovation is the key

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During his participation as the keynote speaker at the Executive Conference 2008: On the Path to Competitivity of the Puerto Rico Indistrials Association (AIPR), Peter Merrill, director of the National Economy Consulting Group, part of the Washington National Revenue Services in Washington of PricewaterhouseCooper LLP, said that to increase its productivity, increase salaries and improve its global competitivity, companies in Puerto Rico have to keep innovating, creating new and unique products and services.

Criticizing the scientific method

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The scientific method is commonly portayed as a series of special steps that scientists follow in order to build an objective knowledge of nature. However, on the contrary to popular belief, experimentation is not the only way to do science. In this article, part of CienciaPR's collaboration with El Nuevo Día, Wilson González Espada explains a little bit about how real science is not linear, but cyclic.

Professors learn about entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship is a key tool for countries to impulse their economy, and aware of this, Puerto Rico had the “Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators” (SEE), directed by professor Jeffry Timmons, considered a world expert in the development of entrepreneurial curriculae. Around 50 professors from seven private universities and the University of Puerto Rico assisted this past week to the three-day symposium organized by Guayacan Group.

Puerto Rican cactuses under serious threat

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The Hypogeococcus pungens or Granara de Willink mealybug is infesting and killing cactuses in the sputhern coast of Puerto Rico, from Cabo Rojo to Guayama, an total area of more than 1,400 km². The victims are the 13 species of cactus existing in Puerto Rico, (of which 3 are endemic and 2 are endangered), and the species that use them as their main food source, including endangered species like the yellow-shouldered blackbird of Puerto Rico.

A natural reserve is born

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More than 1,300 acres between the municipalities of Cayey and Salinas are now part of a natural reserve, after a law was signed to protect the area from large development projects. The reserve that extends from the Laza neighborhood in Cayey to the area of Yeyeza in Salinas, has caves, indian settlements, barracs used in the past as hurricane shelters and the Nigua River's riverbed.

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