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...website LowCarbParties.com to tell drinkers how to decarb their cocktails. "The spirit is not the problem," says food and wine expert Ted Allen from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, who helped launch the site. "It's the mixer." Liquor and grocery stores are beginning to carry products like Baja Bob's low-carb margarita mix, which has been sold online and in specialty stores for four years and is now getting space at Meijer and other supermarkets in the Midwest and Northwest. Sales were up 380% last year...
...film production is controlled chaos, and Troy (whose reported budget is an epic $145 million) is no exception. Early this year, as the Iraq war approached, the production judiciously moved from Morocco to Baja California. On the Malta location this spring, severe heat brought fainting spells on many of the burly Bulgarians hired as extras. One bit player, a former Mr. Malta named George Camilleri, suffered a leg wound while jumping from a galleon and died a few weeks later...
...open and manage Safeway's stores in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Eight years later, he returned to the U.S. to open his own supermarket franchises in Oregon and Washington State. He was recruited by Gigante in 1994 to run the company's operations on the Mexican Baja California peninsula, which include licensed RadioShack and Office Depot stores. "The name recognition of Gigante was just awesome," Frias says. "But many of the middle-and low-income Mexicans who shopped at our stores were crossing the border into the U.S. and staying there." In 1998 Gigante asked Frias to devise...
...Blue Shield and Health Net cross-border plans operate differently: any U.S. citizen or legal resident can enroll through an employer. Blue Shield's Access Baja HMO lets members who live or work within 50 miles of the border choose a primary-care doctor in Tijuana or Mexicali (convenient for agricultural workers in California's Imperial Valley), while those farther away must choose U.S. doctors for themselves but can enroll spouses and children living in Mexico with providers in those cities. Salud con Health Net offers HMO plans with similar rules. It also offers a statewide PPO plan that allows...
...that particular family is not using Mexican providers, the fact that other plan members are doing so helps reduce plan costs all around. While an overnight stay in a California hospital can cost from $1,500 to $3,000, a bed in a high-quality, licensed hospital in Baja California costs only from $600 to $1,100 a day. The average salary last year of general practitioners in California was $149,000, compared with the $35,000 to $50,000 earned by Mexican doctors. "It depends on the specialty, but for the most part the doctor's profession...