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Extreme Engineering: Panama Canal II
For ten years, nearly 40,000 workers blasted through
some of the toughest terrain in the world to create the Panama Canal. The
most expensive peacetime endeavor ever undertaken creates a vital trading
link with global impact. Discovery Channel provides a Flash image of the possibilities
Discovery Channel
Buy the video Extreme Engineering Season 1 - Episode 9: Widening the Panama Canal
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Panama General Info
Findarticles.com: News items by typing "Panama" in the search box.
Georgetown
University Political Science info on Panama
Weather
in Panama city
Map
of Panama City 
World
Travel Guide
Lonely
Planet guide for those travelling to Panama the hard way: crossing
the Darien, driving from Central America.
ABC
News Travel tips on Panama as new ecotourism destination
Sailing
to Panama: with plenty of maps.
Compa
Net links: the first guide to Internet sites in Panama - tourism, restaurants,
hotels, government, etc.
Canal
1: commercial portal of Panama with largest list of Panama sites.
Panama
Info: site providing Calendar of Events, information and chat rooms
for visitors and residents of Panama.
US
Embassy information on Panama.
Darien
links.
"The Noriega Mess" : Extremely well-researched book on the REAL history of Panama by Panamanian PhD Luis Murillo (VideoBooks, 1995)
"In the Time of the Tyrants": Another book on the REAL history of Panama
by long time resident Richard Koster and Panamanian journalist Guillermo
Sanchez (W.W. Norton, 1991)
"Six Minutes to Freedom": How a Band of Heros Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation by Kurt Muse and John Gilstrap
Cable
& Wireless: still being overbilled? Your favorite Panama utility
has a page asking to be hacked.
Panama
Viejo ruins: after escaping obliteration by English pirates and Mexican
builders, see them on the Web.
History
of Panama: as told in the early XX-century, politically incorrect version.
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Sights and sounds from
Panama
Panama
Canal webcam: see ships at Miraflores Locks by the *Panama Canal Commission.
Radio
stations from Panama.
NPR:
Type in the keyword "Panama" to find video and audio reports in the archives.
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