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A Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that.

On Nov. 24, 1859, Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was published. Even though there are still some Americans arguing about its contents, there is little debate that Darwin's book helped launch a revolution of scientific inquiry that continues to this day.

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Such was my pleasure on a recent visit to the port of Manta, Ecuador. Most land travelers probably wouldn't make this a destination, but travel by ship provides glimpses of medium to small culture-rich places such as Manta and the surrounding towns.

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Rather than try to see as much of Ecuador as we could, we opted for a long term stay in Cuenca, a city that was a good deal smaller than the capital city of Quito to the north and quieter than the more largely populated city of Guayaquil on the Pacific coast.

With around one in three young Italians now unemployed, many of its younger generation are contemplating emigrating to destinations as far afield as Africa and South America, in the hope of better employment prospects.

Ecuadorian capital Quito's basic services utility Epmaps is planning to spend US$4.2mn on six potable water and sanitation projects in the city's northwestern area.

Ricky Martin is has spoken out against AquA y Ahora, a popular nightly newsmagazine on the Spanish-language network Univision, after it aired an episode last week that featuring a man who claimed homosexuality can be cured.

Brian Elliott will present a program on a "Trip to the Galapagos" when the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.

In this Thursday Feb. 6, 2003 file photo patients wait to hear the results of their tests for Malaria, at a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Cruising the eastern Pacific is everyone's dream, but the green turtle, the only herbivore among the sea turtles, seems to have it made in one sense.

PHOTO COURTESY OF Carolina Tizon Jose Luis Urteaga and Roberto Sanchez Pierola present Peruvian culture and social commentary in their traveling show throughout the States.

TEACHING IN THE operating room in Porto Viejo is Dr. Downey. Dr. Susan Downey recently returned from Ecuador where she helped train university residents and area medical personnel in the latest techniques in cleft lip and palette repair and burn reconstruction.

China has banned kindergartens in a northern province from offering palm-reading tests that the schools had claimed could predict toddlers' intelligence level and potential.

An attack on freedom of the press anywhere is an attack on freedom everywhere. Such an assault is under way in Ecuador, a nation ruled with a heavy hand by a lightweight dictator who seems to wish he were Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

View from Palitahua, Ecuador on May 29, 2010, of the Tungurahua volcano in eruption.

Dr Mike Lock will give a talk on his recent tour of the Galapagos Islands, on Thursday, February 9, at 2.30pm. Admission free.

Quito, Feb 2 : Ecuador has signed contracts for USD 1.7 billion in investment - the biggest to date in the country's oil sector - to boost output at a pair of mature Amazon fields.

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