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From 1915 to 1934, the U.S. occupied Haiti for strategic reasons connected with the route to the Panama Canal and attempted along the way to build up the economic and political infrastructure of Haiti...
...that, as astronomer Michael Hart wrote, the moon landing would "be forever remembered as one of the greatest achievements of the human race." I think Kennedy, steeped in history, saw himself beside Thomas Jefferson sending Lewis and Clark to explore the West, and with Theodore Roosevelt building the Panama Canal...
...year battle over toxic waste at Love Canal reached an anticlimax as New York State settled a $630 million lawsuit against Occidental Chemical Corp. for a bargain $98 million. Occidental's corporate predecessor, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp., buried 22,000 tons of toxic waste near the Niagara Falls neighborhood from 1942 to 1953. Most of the town was evacuated in the mid-1970s when the contamination was widely reported. Despite the settlement today, Occidental's problems are far from over: many individual suits, as well as a federal action, brought against the company over Love Canal continue to percolate...
...Paris. Hitler's headquarters refused to believe me and decided it was only a dummy raid. We were not permitted to counterattack. I believe to this day that if we had counterattacked by 2 a.m., we could have got to the coast and held the bridges on the Caen canal...
...Pressures in the canal at the base of the palmincrease dramatically by moving your wrists to theextreme," says Simmons, who is the author of theleading book on work-related injuries in the upperextremities. "You want your wrist neutral orstraight ahead...