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The Brains That Bind Us

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Veterans PTSD, Memorial Day, Heroes, Veterans Administration, Football, Brain Health, Suicide, Brain Tumor, Home Base Program, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Lori-Ann Lytle, Bob Woodruff Foundation, Veterans, Massachusetts General Hospital, Rob Lytle, Soldiers, NFL Concussions, Military, Brain Injuries, Panama, Desert Storm, Junior Seau, Ptsd, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impact News
Marian Salzman

Although two of the greatest attributes of our country might be our competitive spirit and our defense of our values and freedoms, one can't help but wonder at what price. Brains are the tie that binds us, but are we really coming undone? Think about it.

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Free Trade Run Amok: The 'TPP'

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: President Obama, South Korea, Nafta, Trade, Cafta, Colombia, Pacific Rim, Panama, China, Japan, Politics News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

Bilateral and thoughtfully constructed 'smallish' regional agreements are always preferable to massive multilateral agreements among widely disparate trading partners.

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Jason Gilbert

LOOK: Classroom Of The Future Will Make You Wish You Were A Student Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Exodesks, Video, Exopc, Panama, Exodesk, Slidepollajax, Tablets, Future Classroom, Panama News, Exo Classroom, Technology News

Kids, don't stick your gum on these desks. ExoPC, the French-Canadian startup that manufactures a tabletop multitouch surface with a 32-inch LCD di...

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Jeb Bush Leads Effort By Romney Campaign To Hit Obama On Trade

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Video, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Free Trade, Jeb Bush, Barack Obama, Romney Trade, Jeb Bush Mitt Romney, Obama Trade, Jeb Bush Trade, South Korea, 2012 Election, Colombia, Panama, 2012 Election Blog, Politics News

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the biggest voice Mitt Romney's campaign is deploying to prebut President Barack Obama's Friday afternoon speech in Ta...

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Conflicts Continue Over Resources in Panama -- Two More Indigenous People Killed

Veronique Pittman | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Land Rights, Central America, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Panama, Indigenous People, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Protection, World News
Veronique Pittman

Over the past three months there has been increased tension in the Wounaan communities of Eastern Panama due to illegal loggers invading their lands.

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The World of Kalu Yala

Amanda Slavin | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Panama City, San-Blas, Central America, Kalu Yala, Culture Shock, Panama, Hook Island, Impact News
Amanda Slavin

I was blown away by how sometimes I am so absorbed in getting frustrated at my outlook being too slow, or my BlackBerry freezing, and how there is a total opposite way to live full of appreciating the little things in life and being happier than ever doing so.

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PHOTOS: 10 Alternative Spring Break Trips

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Rio, Machu Pichu, Video, Spring Break, Caribbean, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Hispanic Heritage, Guatemala, Spring Break Series, Belize, Slidepollajax, Latino Voices News

While we've seen that Spring Break in Mexico does not necessarily mean you need to be trapped in the all-inclusive drunken world of Cancun, perhaps a ...

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PHOTOS: Diving Into The 'Washing Machine'

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Slidepolljax, Mission Blue, Video, Coiba National Park Panama, Panama, Panama Coiba National Park, Mission Blue Expedition, Ocean Conservation, Slidepollajax, Coiba Panama Mission Blue, Green News

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Today, the wind picked up making the waters quite choppy. The Sea Hunte...

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A Rendezvous With The Undersea Hunter

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Mission Blue Coiba Panama, Video, Panama, Coiba Panama Expedition, Coiba Panama, Ocean Conservation, Mission Blue Expedition, Oceans, Coiba Mission Blue, Panama Mission Blue, Slidepollajax, Ocean Exploration, Coiba Panama Mission Blue, Green News

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Kip Evans and Shari Sant Plummer left early in the morning to rendezvou...

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Exploring Panama's Coiba Island

Posted 03.19.2012

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Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Coiba National Park, located off the southwest coast of Panama, is made...

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Prehistoric Camel Was Bizarre Beast, Newly Unearthed Fossils Show

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Camel, Vertebrate Paleontology, Prehistoric, Video, Panama Canal, University of Florida, Species, Panama, Rain Forest, Science News

MIAMI -- Researchers scratching in the sediment during the historic expansion of the Panama Canal say they have discovered the fossils of a small came...

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PHOTOS: 5 Great, Affordable Beaches In Latin America

BootsnAll | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Bootsnall, Caribbean, Central America, Panama, Costa Rica, Latin America, Mexico, Honduras, Travel, Budget Travel, Nicaragua, Caribbean Sea, Slidepollajax, Travel News
BootsnAll

You can find all the things that make the Caribbean great without the high prices or enormous crowds.

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A Democratic Crisis Close to Home

Juan Carlos Hidalgo | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Panama City, Panama Politics, Panama, Panama Democracy, Central America, Ngäbe, Ricardo Martinelli, Central American Politics, Syria, World News
Juan Carlos Hidalgo

Panama is in the midst of one of its most serious political crises since the return of democracy in 1989. Clashes in recent days are part of a broader climate of political turmoil stemming from the growing authoritarianism of president Ricardo Martinelli.

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Former Dictator Leaves Hospital, Returns To Jail

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Manuel Noriega Hospital, Video, Panama, Manuel Noriega, Manuel Noriega Jail, Manuel Noriega Leaves Hospital, Panama Noriega, Noriega Jail, Ap, World News

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Medical authorities in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega has left a hospital four days after fainting in the prison where...

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Former Dictator Hospitalized

AP | JUAN ZAMORANO | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Video, Noriega Hospitalized, Health, Panama, Manuel Noriega Health, Manuel Noriega Hospitalized, Manuel Noriega, Ex-Panama Dictator Hospitalized, Hypertension, Franklin Vergara, Noriega, World News

PANAMA CITY — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who was toppled by a 1989 American invasion and later convicted of drug running, was tr...

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WATCH: Scientists Uncover Snack Food Of Ancient Peru

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Video, Ancient, Peru, Popcorn, Peruvians, Central America, Corn, Panama, Corn-on-the-Cob, Mexico, Kernel, Snack, Science News

Popcorn might as well have been invented just for movie-watching--the two just go together. But scientists from the Smithsonian National Museum of Nat...

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Former Dictator 'Pineapple Face' Flown Home For Punishment

AP | JUAN ZAMORANO | Posted 02.10.2012

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PANAMA CITY, Panama — Former military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega was flown home to Panama on Sunday to be punished once again for crimes h...

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WATCH: Fish Impales Fisherman

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Video, Stephen Schultz Fishing, Impaled by Marlin, Panama Fishing, Panama, Stephen Schultz Impaled, Fishing, Stephen Schultz Marlin, Marlin, Green News

Although some anglers may not expect to land the "big one," no fisherman expects to get stabbed in the face while fishing. This marlin fish tale may b...

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Former Panamanian Dictator To Be Extradited In Weeks

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 01.31.2012

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PARIS — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will be extradited to his homeland in the next few weeks, the French Justice Ministry said Thu...

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French Court Approves Former Dictator's Extradition

AP | JAMEY KEATEN and PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD | Posted 01.23.2012

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PARIS — A French court ruled Wednesday that former dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to Panama to serve time for past crimes, more than ...

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PHOTOS: World's Most Remote Islands

BootsnAll | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Travel, Cook Islands, Panama, Islands, Easter Island, Remote, Slidepollajax, Most Remote Islands in World, Travel News
BootsnAll

There are few places left in the world that are truly undiscovered, but if you're willing to venture far, far off the beaten path, you can find a few that still seem remote.

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WATCH: Exploring Majestic, Magnetic Panama

wejetset | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Inspiration, Panama Canal, Culture, Panama, Video, Central America, Travel News, International Destinations, Travel Video, Destinations, Travel News
wejetset

"Panama is known for the Panama Canal, but this country has much more to offer than this intercontinental transport hub," says one filmmaker.

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Shooting Panama: A Parade And The Canal

Jeroen Swolfs | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Photography, Streetsoftheworld, www.streetsoftheworld.com, Streets of the World, Travel, Swolfs, Jeroen Swolfs, Panama, Panama Travel, Travel Blogs, Urban Travel, Travel News
Jeroen Swolfs

Every day, parades started in the old town going down to the boulevard and all the way onwards to Panama City's impressive new town with its beautiful skyline.

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Global Trade: Not What You Think?

Efraim Chalamish | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Trade Pacts, Obama Free Trade Agreements, South Korea, Colombia, Panama, World News
Efraim Chalamish

As Congress approved three Free Trade Agreements (also known as Trade Pacts) with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia, I get the impression that there are two leading narratives.

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It's NAFTA x3 as Free Trade Deals Sweep Through Congress

Michelle Chen | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Korea, Fair Trade, Free Trade, Labor, Human Rights, Panama, Nafta, Colombia, World News
Michelle Chen

Free trade deals have always been less about creating jobs than exporting neoliberal ideology to the Global South, thereby accelerating poor nations' cascade toward low labor standards, environmental exploitation and deregulation.

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