We have this file available for download Narrator: It's been
called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World -- a manmade
waterway, 50 miles long -- that forever altered the face of the
earth. Ovidio Diaz Espino, Writer: The Panama Canal exceeded any
country's capacity. If in 1904 you had asked me to put money, I
would have said 'No, it cannot be built.' Nobody knew how this
was gonna be done. Carlos E. Russell, Writer: The geographic
location of Panama, the Isthmus of Panama, has always been
coveted as a way of making the oceans meet. With the building of
the Panama Canal, the realization of a dream became an
expression of the power, the strength, the might of a growing
nation. Narrator: For nearly a hundred years, the Panama Canal
has stood for the triumph of technology over nature. But when it
was built, at the dawn of the 20th century, it was simply an
audacious gamble -- a colossal engineering project, the likes of
which the world had never seen. Marco A. Mason, Panamanian
Council of New York: It's a