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...first microscope photographs, using the sun as his light source. Major Walter Reed was the pathology museum's curator when he went to Havana as head of the team that convicted mosquitoes of carrying yellow fever, making possible control of the disease-and completion of the Panama Canal. Institute pathologists developed the first typhoid vaccines, using themselves as guinea pigs...
...confined in Ligėe to bear her first child, she was full of radiant hope. Her labor was hard. But the next days were worse. Doctors would not let her see her daughter, named Corine. The baby had no arms, her face was disfigured, and her anal canal emptied through her vagina. When the deception could go on no longer and Suzanne saw her baby, she was stunned...
...Canal Zone. Air Force support bases...
Until recently, the only link over the canal has been a cumbersome swing bridge at the Pacific end. In response to Panama's urging, the U.S. spent $20 million on a new bridge rising 384 ft. above the canal three miles downstream. The question was what to call it. At a time when Washington is increasingly mindful of Panama's "titular sovereignty," and now flies the Panamanian flag next to the Stars and Stripes in the zone, one name that almost everybody liked was "Bridge of the Americas"-symbolizing Panama's importance as a crossroads...
...Atlanta named Eugene Black. After Black took over the World Bank, he called on Woods to help organize private development corporations in India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Woods's biggest international coup came when he persuaded Egypt's Nasser to compensate the former shareholders of the Suez Canal...