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Torrijos, son of rural schoolteachers, frequently visits the countryside and delights in slogging through waist-high water in the jungle. "Once in a while," he has said, "a leader must get his feet wet and mud on his boots." But his laws against dismissal of workers and eviction of tenants for nonpayment of rent have contributed to the country's economic problems. Panama's foreign debt is now $700 million, while unemployment has soared to 12% nationally, and is much higher in urban areas. The economy has remained virtually stagnant since...
...slow, silent accuracy, the camera picks out the details of the conquistadors' movement: the absurdity of their costumes in the humid sun, their lack of respect for their Indian slaves, their devotion to the cross, their reliance on weaponry, their confidence. No one talks as they slog through the mud: the audience is left to discern on its own the nature of their journey, to predict their success from the stand-point of uninformed, unaided observers...
...trappers spoke of smoking hills, springs that spewed torrents of boiling mud and water, and cliffs of black glass. In 1870 Washburn and Hedges decided to have a look for themselves. What they saw so impressed them that they decided the region had to be preserved. On March 1, 1872, legislation establishing the 2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park-first in the country and the world-was signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. Now the National Park Service, created in 1916, administers a 31-million-acre empire likely to double in size once Congress acts to acquire additional parkland...
...beer market by 1985. Traditionalists are full of memories of things Pabst, and no newfangled "light" beer with fewer calories and indistinct taste will substitute for the Real Thing. Those who like the lighter brews are quick to criticize the weighty liquids that they equate with mud...
...coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites or comets with the earth. Heezen co-authored a book titled The Face of the Deep...