...California's clearinghouse for study abroad. ''In general, travel in most of the world is very safe.'' The bodies of Emily Howell of Lexington, Ky., and Emily Eagen of Ann Arbor, Mich., were found March 13 along a highway near the Costa Rican...

...shaken the country's image as a safe destination for tourists. The bodies of Emily Eagen, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Emily Howell, of Lexington, Ky., both 19, were found beside a highway March 13 near the town of Cahuita, 90 miles east of San...