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...project--which voters look set to approve in an Oct. 22 referendum--may not compare with the big dig that created the canal a century ago, but Torrijos insists it is no less urgent, both for international shipping and Panama's development. "My dad solved the struggle for ownership," Torrijos told TIME. "My generation's challenge is to make better economic and social use of this geographical position history...
...vessels in the global commercial fleet is expected to jump 74%, to about 700, and by 2011, they will probably account for half the world's oceangoing commercial-cargo capacity, according to the World Shipping Council in Washington. The expansion design, approved by Panama's Congress last spring, would dig a new approach channel about five miles long just east of the existing Gatun locks at the Atlantic entrance, and a similar one just west of the Miraflores locks on the Pacific side. Each new channel would hold three-step locks 180 ft. wide, compared with...
...source. Chronologically, it is impossible to assert that Hamas captured Shalit (June 25) in retaliation for Israel’s arrest of Hamas members (June 24). The Hamas kidnapping required careful planning and was conceived of at least several weeks in advance as it took a long time to dig almost a kilometer-long tunnel under the border. REBECCA M. ROHR ’08 October 11, 2006 The writer is president of Harvard Students for Israel...
...corruption scandals. For his part, Menendez is now attacking Kean after learning that a person hired by a Kean campaign consultant had been in contact with Democrat Robert Janiszewski, a former Hudson County executive who pleaded guilty in 2002 to accepting more than $100,000 in bribes, to dig up dirt on Menendez. Kean's campaign says this is just typical campaign research...
...interest in treating diarrhea didn't gain ground until devastating cholera epidemics swept the subcontinent in the middle of the last century. Fluid loss from cholera-related diarrhea occurs so rapidly that its victims can die within four to eight hours or, as lore has it, before they can dig their own graves. Cholera is still a leading cause of diarrhea in Bangladesh's southern Ganges River basin. Vaccines preventing cholera have never been completely effective or long-lasting, so when ICDDR was established as the Cholera Research Laboratory in 1960, its mission was to evaluate such treatments...