The Atlantic, January/February 2009
"The birds, I learned later, were toucans. But as I made my way through the Panamanian jungle, their dry, echoing call--whoosh, whoosh, whoosh--sounded almost mechanical, which seemed fitting. Before me, on an open plain in the Galeta Island Protected Landscape, was a mesh of 100-foot-high wires used by the United States during the Cold War to monitor Soviet submarines."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2009/01/panamas-brooding-history/24277/
