Sweet success with honey.(Universidad Nacionals' project to train housewives in beekeeping helps Costa Rica's in successful trade of honey)

With a few thousand dollars in donated funds, know-how from Universidad Nacional (UNA) and a million bees, housewives in a rural area of Costa Rica are learning to become businesswomen, reports The Tico Times (Oct. 17, 2004). Their business is honey and they are using it to supplement their struggling finances. One year after UNA's Center for Tropical Beekeeping Research (CINAT) initiated the project, those involved are calling it a sweet success, said Luis Sanchez, of the research center. The project is part of a program in which 134 people--including 76 women from 11…