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...that critics nicknamed him "Senator No," a moniker he cherishes. He has blocked so many nominees that he can't remember all their names. (Robert Pastor was startled when he testified before Helms four years after the Senator had bottled up his nomination in 1994 to be ambassador to Panama: "He didn't seem to know...
...Panama, Swedish-Panamanian entrepreneur Nils Petterson is set to open @Altec Cyber Park, Latin America's first hosting provider, which will be able to store 600,000 different sites on its 10,000 servers. For the first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies...
...were on a faster schedule than the stop-and-go City of New Orleans Goodman described. (He wrote the song in 1970, just before Amtrak took over the line with plans to rename that route the Panama Limited after the old Pullman train. Goodman's popular lament for the train with the "disappearin'-railroad blues" persuaded Amtrak to rechristen it the City of New Orleans.) And our sleek new equipment was a far cry from the tattered luxury of its aging 1940s cars...
...strong force, which, along with the 6,000-member National Liberation Army, operates in 40% of the country. The FARC was earning at least $100 million a year from the traffickers. Its well-armed guerrillas, who have choppers, signal-intelligence equipment and even R.-and-R. resorts in Panama, were becoming better paid and equipped than Colombian army soldiers...
...America was also outproducing all the Axis and the Allied powers combined, contributing nearly 300,000 planes, 100,000 tanks, 2 million trucks and 87,000 warships to the Allied cause. "The figures are all so astronomical," historian Bruce Catton marveled. "It was the equivalent of building two Panama Canals every month, with a fat surplus to boot...