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    Border fence fiasco, real or virtual

    Nethaway: Border fence fiasco, real or virtual

    Rowland Nethaway

    Friday, April 25, 2008

    Two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff approved a $20 million virtual fence along a 28-mile stretch in Arizona, the fence was scrapped as unworkable.

    Chertoff accepted the Boeing Company’s “Project 28â€
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    America built the Panama Canal in primitive conditions combating malaria and yellow fever. Amercia can and will build a border fence despite of politics. Ones who say we can't don't know real Americans.

    Panama Canal
    Truly one of the great engineering feats of all time, the Panama Canal was designed at the turn of the 20th century and has been operating since 1914. It is 50.72 miles long, some of it hewn from solid rock, and gives passage to all types of vessels, from huge tankers to the Queen Elizabeth II.

    A canal across Central America fulfilled dreams of a short route from Atlantic to Pacific ports by allowing ships to enter the Pacific Ocean without traveling entirely around South America.

    The United States built the canal at a cost of about $380 million. Thousands of laborers worked on it for about 10 years, using steam shovels and dredges to cut through jungles, hills and swamps. They removed 211 million cubic yards of earth and rock and had to conquer malaria and yellow fever.

    The canal has three sets of water-filled chambers (locks), which raise and lower ships from one level to another. The locks were built in pairs to allow ships to pass through in both directions at the same time. The United States has controlled the Panama Canal Zone and the canal since 1903. However, a treaty approved by Panama’s voters in 1977 and by the U.S. Senate in 1978 will give Panama control of the canal on Dec. 31, 1999.

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