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Where can i find a list of Americans who have been arrested in Honduras?

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The Prospect for Tidal Power Generation in Central America

The West Coast of Latin America, Central America and North America is both an earthquake as well as a volcanic zone. Despite the presence of these natural hazards, potential exists whereby electric power may be generated from ocean tides at several locations in this region.

There have been numerous proposals to install ocean tidal power conversion technology at several sites along the Alaskan coast as well as along the coast of British Columbia, Canada. As demand for electric power increases in these regions, ocean tidal power generation technology would likely begin to appear.

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Norma A. Mejia Recarte, a former consul general for Honduras in New York City and an advocate for senior citizens in Bergen County, New Jersey, died Friday. She was 78.

“She was an advocate for a lot of Latino families,” said her son, Allan Recarte, a teacher in Hackensack.

Born in Santa Barbara, Honduras, Ms. Recarte was trained as a certified public accountant. She came to the United States in 1954 and served as acting consul general before Honduran officials “broke down” and gave her the job — a position normally reserved for men, her son said.

She served as general consul through the early 1970s.

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GENEVA - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced in a Thursday press release that Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Honduras became the 129th and 130th contracting states of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) when they deposited their instruments of accession at WIPO on March 14, 2006 and March 20, 2006, respectively. The Treaty will be entered into force for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on June 14, 2006, and for Honduras on June 20, 2006.

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