Panama Canal Defying Expectations
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When the United States gave Panama control over its canal, many international observers predicted the international waterway would be plagued by problems at best and chaos at worst.
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The world's biggest steelmaker stacks up impressively against the competition.
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It was quite simply the performance of the year for the Americans. In a perfect storm of what could go right for the US menâs national team, Panama
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Beyond improvement in its biannual results, a more intriguing Rio Tinto story develops.
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It was one of the boldest initiatives yet for Latin America's emerging leftist alliance and it didn't even get off the ground.
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Panama is set to start work on a $5bn (Â£2.4bn) project to widen the Panama Canal to increase its capacity.
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US manufacturing activity remained strong in September and construction spending surged to a record high in August, according to a pair of reports issued Friday that provided an optimistic look at the sturdiness of the economy.
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When deadly floods struck Panama last November, a space-age &quot;situation room&quot; named SERVIR helped save lives.
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Company ramps up to increase production as demand for new handheld exceeds expectations.
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It is hard to think of a canal as cutting-edge technology. The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, was basically a 363-mile ditch, 4 feet deep, that connected Albany and Buffalo, N.Y. Mules pulled boats along the canal at a top speed of 4 miles per hour, which meant it took almost five days to complete the trip.
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Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet &#151; too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.
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An extremely high-strength concrete formula had been used successfully for the first time in New York City, as part of the Freedom Tower project.
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WASHINGTON -- Water depths in parts of the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet -- too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama  - Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld lowered a freighter into the Pacific Ocean from the  Panama Canal on Sunday and praised Panamanian steps to protect  the vital waterway from terrorist attack.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama -- When the United States gave Panama control over its canal, many observers predicted that the international waterway would be plagued by problems at best and chaos at worst.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld lowered a freighter into the Pacific Ocean from the Panama Canal on Sunday and praised Panamanian steps to protect the vital waterway from terrorist attack.
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Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.