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A trail of poisoned medicine

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/06poison.html?

ex=1179028800&en=cbb90addae912025&ei=5070&emc=eta1

The law enforcement authorities in Panama, Spain and China haven't solved the mystery of who put the poison in the medicine production chain that resulted in the deaths of at least 100 Panamanians and very likely more than three times that number. New York Times investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker apparently have, and they probably deserve a Pulitzer Prize for this story. Read this not only like the conclusion to a murder mystery, but also as a cautionary tale about a very ugly side of the much-touted globalized economy that allows corporations to run away from health and safety regulations.

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/AO/bighorn.html

A Wyoming observatory variously estimated to be 300 to 800 years old shows how much North America's northern high plains Indian nations knew about astronomy before they ever set eyes upon white people or knew what a telescope was. This place, on a ridge that can only be reached in a few warm weather months, still serves as an important religious site.

Chibchan Languages

http://www.answers.com/topic/chibchan-languages

Most of Panama's indigenous peoples --- all except for the Embera and Wounaan --- speak languages of this family. Linguists can estimate how long different peoples speaking tongues of the same family of languages have been separated from their common ancestors by the number of changes in words, usages, grammar and sounds and based on that have found that some of our first nations have unique identities going back for millennia.

Getting a jump on waterfront property speculation

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/27/145357/269

So if you’re going to cash in when global warming --- or that exceptionally sneaky Dutch plot to extend their dikes way out into the North Sea --- raises global sea levels, the maps herein give you some tips on where to buy future beachfront. The Donald's thing in Panama City didn't make the list.

Jamaican Recipes: Ackee and Saltfish

http://eatjamaican.com/recipes/ackeeandsaltfish-recipe.html

Because so many of the people who came here to build the Panama Railroad or the Panama Canal, or to establish banana, palm oil or cacao plantations, were from Jamaica, this is also about a bit of Panamanian culinary culture. Ackee, however, has become a kind rare and mostly Atlantic side phenomenon here.

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