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The blindness of the migratory myth

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Deepak Lamba-Nieves / Director de Investigaciones del CNE

Recently, this newspaper published a cover story that revealed alarming data: the Puerto Rican exodus over the past decade, mainly to northern latitudes, has cost the country at least $3,000 million. According to this analysis, conducted by an economist friend, have it not been for so many people leaving, the public debt burden per person would be less severe.

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Blimp

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Marie Custodio Collazo / mcustodio@elnuevodia.com

Giovanni Collazo, Jose Padilla and Rodriguez Elving devised a tool that allows free-lance professionals and small businesses collaboration tools needed to complete a project from start to finish, even if people who are on the team are not in the same physical location.

Blimp is the name of the application, which for now is available online in a free version and a Professional suite, which has a monthly fee of $ 12. Developers are already working on the mobile theme.

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Mission: Make them fall in love with technology

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El Nuevo Día Educador / elnuevodiaeducador@elnuevodia.com

Over 110 youth from the Puerto Rico public school system attended the 4th Tecno Boyz Day, organized by Microsoft and the Department of Education (DE) and held at the Microsoft Operations facilities in Humacao.

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They come together through shared interest in meteorology

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Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos / Taller de Estudiantes PRENSA RUM

For the sixth consecutive year, the student chapter of the Meteorological Society of Puerto Rico (SMPR) of the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus (UPR-M), conducted the Weather Fest, an event that brought together middle and high school students with the mission of creating an interest in the discipline that explores the atmosphere.

Zuleimary Rodriguez Velez, vice president and lead organizer of the group, explained that the initiative, which was coordinated by students assigned to the UPR-M Meteorology curriculum, receives 600 to 700 students annually.

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Triumphant at Mathcounts

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Josefina Barceló Jiménez / jbarcelo@elnuevodia.com

Approximately 150 students from 18 public and private middle schools participated Saturday, March 23 in the state Mathcounts competition.

Engineer Gabriel Echandi, Mathcounts coordinator in Puerto Rico, said that this competition is organized by the National Society of Professional Engineers and is cosponsored by the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, which hosted the activity.

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Puerto Rico studies "St. Vitus Dance"

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Huntington's disease, also known as the "St. Vitus dance" is an inherited genetic disorder that affects brain cells or neurons in the striatum region. This area of the brain is related to body movement, emotions and memory.

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Bosque Modelo (Model Forest) Ecological Corridor a reality

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Yalixa Rivera Cruz / yrivera@elnuevodia.com

After 13 years working to protect the environment Casa Pueblo is seeing a dream come true: a cooperative community agreement to create the Bosque Modelo (Model Forest) Regional Ecological Corridor.

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