Word: agua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crisp, cool refreshing taste and feel of agua is preferable to any chemical-infested imitator. What did cavemen drink? They drank water. (And maybe, during droughts, some pee.) What's on the table during presidential debates? Gatorade? Powerade? No-good-old H-2-0. Get it in the sink with tap, get it in France with Evian. Get it purified with Aquafina, get it in the U.S. with Poland Spring. Even Dannon, the yogurt company, bottles water...
...crisp, cool refreshing taste and feel of agua is preferable to any chemical-infested imitator. What did cavemen drink? They drank water. (And maybe, during droughts, some pee.) What's on the table during presidential debates? Gatorade? Powerade? No-good-old H-2-0. Get it in the sink with tap, get it in France with Evian. Get it purified with Aquafina, get it in the U.S. with Poland Spring. Even Dannon, the yogurt company, bottles water...
...Macias Onate, a Mexican border-police officer, knows he'll be busy as he eases his Dodge Ram along his country's porous border with the U.S. Soon his headlights pick out four scraggly youths preparing to scale the 12-ft.-high steel fence that separates the town of Agua Prieta from Douglas, Ariz. As he slows the pickup, the teenagers scatter like rabbits toward the sagebrush. "Wait! Don't run! We're not here to arrest you," yells Macias. "We want to help you. The problem is on the other side...
...guide them, arresting 90 in three years. But the special teams themselves are widely suspected, by migrants and U.S. lawmen, of taking payoffs from the smugglers. "They go after us, but they can be paid off," says Juan, 14, a smuggler's apprentice lounging in the courtyard of an Agua Prieta hotel that is bustling with people preparing to cross. The youngster collects $50 a head for leading migrants the last few hundred yards over the border...
...more than $1,000--triple the price a few years ago. But still they come. "The only real solution is in Mexico," declares Douglas Mayor Ray Borane. "Their government needs to address the flagrant trafficking of humans for profit." Indeed, the traffic has been an economic boon for Agua Prieta, whose 1998 population of 120,000 has swelled an additional 100,000. In the past two years, 15 hotels have opened or started construction, primarily to provide lodging for U.S.-bound job seekers. One of them, Jose Bueno Montano, 33, who was caught by the U.S. border patrol and returned...