Costa Rica promises to compensate sickened banana workers

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Costa Rica promises to compensate sickened banana workers

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/costa-rica-promises-compensate-sickened-banana-workers-210442673.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cc1rKoYkoQ0o_l785Vsgiw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9Njk7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/45b8242531c8d54d80a0e9ac93fa9713ee6c2b04.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A worker walks through a banana plantation at a farm north of San Jose on February 19, 2005" align="left" title="A worker walks through a banana plantation at a farm north of San Jose on February 19, 2005" border="0" /></a>San José (AFP) - Costa Rica has agreed to pay the medical bills and other compensation for some 12,000 banana workers and their relatives suffering lingering effects of exposure to pesticides in the 1960s and 1970s.</p><br clear="all"/>

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