Day: January 3, 2013

New ‘Panama Canal’ project sparking war between Colombia and Nicaragua

Jan 3, 2013

Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, has just inked a deal with a Chinese company for a $30 billion canal. The proposed waterway will connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, and Nicaragua hopes to reap...

What today’s longshoremen do

Jan 3, 2013

From Marketplace: There’s a certain romance to the word “longshoreman.” But in essence, it simply means loading and unloading cargo ships. Daniel Yi, a spokesman for the Port of Long Beach, told me about the...