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...Town. Dating from the early-16th century and surrounded on three sides by the Pacific, the Casco - as it is affectionately known by locals - was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and served as the backdrop for much of the action in the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Casco's appeal is clear: grand cathedrals, fountain-filled plazas, timeworn cobblestone streets, even a bullet-scarred Presidential palace, which was attacked during the 1989 U.S. invasion. And now its mélange of Spanish, French, neoclassical and Caribbean architecture is being lovingly restored by farsighted investors...
...development is still to get under way, a clutch of Casco cafés, hotels and cultural sites have already had their makeovers. The most eye-catching is the Canal House Hotel (www.canalhousepanama.com), an elegantly renovated late 19th century mansion where actor Daniel Craig stayed during the three-month Bond shoot. The hotel's three guest rooms are named after the Canal's massive locks - Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun - and each has a wrought-iron balcony with views of the Casco's Cathedral Plaza and surrounding red-tiled roofs and cobblestone alleyways...
...best, this reflects the closeness of the human-animal bond. After Hurricane Katrina, one of the most moving stories told was of an old man found floating with his dog on a trailer tire. When asked to leave the dog, he refused, stating simply that he’d lose everything except the one creature he knew he could trust...
...come to terms with the frailty of human life. But despite their transient existence, these harbingers of mortality are a far cry from bleak or empty representations of death. Instead, the obvious beauty of these flowers, no matter how short-lived or delicate, is a testament to those unbreakable bonds worth striving for—love, familial ties, and friendships. German director Doris Dörrie’s “Cherry Blossoms” is a similar reminder to appreciate life’s transient but spectacular moments. This touching film, though at times overstated in its sentimentality...
...with tax receipts drying up and the state nearly out of cash, unemployment and foreclosures above the national average, and the state cast out of the municipal-bond market (Standard & Poor's downgraded the state's bond rating to the lowest of the 50 states), Schwarzenegger recognizes that this year's shortfall is just too big to fix with cuts alone. Unlike the Federal Government, which can run endless deficits, states are required by law to balance their books yearly...