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Sources: Eugene Register-Guard; Dept. of Defense; AP; Washington Post; New York Times; AP; Salt Lake Tribune...
...first, the Americans pursued the failed French dream: a sea-level passage through the mountains and jungles. In 1906 that plan was overruled in favor of damming the Chagres River to create a vast inland lake that could be entered through flights of locks at either end. That still meant cutting an eight-mile trench through the mountains. Every rainy season, mudslides wiped out months of work in a single moment...
...Ship enters first lock from ocean --Culvert --Lock 1 --Lock 2 --Miraflores Lake ?Water from Miraflores Lake enters first lock through culvert system, elevating ship to level of second lock ?Ship pulls into second lock; gates close behind it ?Water from MirafloresLake enters second lock, elevating ship to lake level ?Ship moves into Miraflores Lake, proceeds through canal to next locks
...dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball Kelly Ripa. "Being fallible works to my advantage," says Ricki Lake, who has gone from the queen of train-wreck talk to the cheerfully awkward M.C. of CBS's Gameshow Marathon...
...November, making it Japan's second best-selling title of 2006. (It trails only the latest Harry Potter installment). A grassroots backlash against reform in the world's second largest economy is worrying to some WEF delegates. "This book's popularity is not a positive development," says Charles D. Lake II, vice chairman of Aflac Insurance in Japan. But it is an important one. Despite Japan's much-heralded success in modernizing its economy, the fact remains that a large segment of Japanese society loathes the way things are heading. While there is no English-language version of the book...