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...Starr, along with two neighboring mesquite-covered counties along the Mexican border, has become known as Little Colombia because of high-profile drug smuggling since the federal crackdown in Florida. Officially designated as one of the nation's poorest regions, the area is basking in a cocaine-driven economic boom that has helped fuel a surge in bank deposits. Lavish homes -- paid for in cash -- have been built fronting the Rio Grande, and luxury cars equipped with cellular telephones dot the unpaved streets of such towns as Roma and Rio Grande City. Hard-pressed lawmen fear that they...
...city's tragic transformation began in the 1950s, when an economic boom in Panama City diverted investment and, later, government spending from Colon. But after Noriega was overthrown, there was hope that Colon might begin to recover. More than 80 residents, most of them unarmed civilians, were killed in the U.S. invasion, but even that toll seemed an acceptable price for Colon's rehabilitation. "We thought maybe this government would remember us," says Father Carlos Ariz, bishop of Colon. "Instead the government says it has no way to help...
FOOD: A poultry boom spreads salmonella...
Encouraging as that sounds, there are some troubling gaps in the fitness boom. Exercise continues to be primarily a concern of the well off and well educated. A federal study this past summer reported that only 7% of low-income Americans exercise regularly. Nor have the workouts trimmed the obesity rate: 1 in 4 U.S. women age 35 to 64 is obese. And as much as the ideal body image has changed, there is still a lingering fear that women will begin to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sports columnist Ira Berkow, for instance, wrote approvingly in the New York Times...
...golden touch has struck it rich again -- or has he? Former Treasury Secretary William Simon reaped a $66 million profit when he and fellow investors acquired Gibson Greetings in 1982 and sold the card company back to public stockholders 16 months later. That windfall helped create the 1980s boom in leveraged buyouts and established Simon's reputation as a master of mouth-watering financial deals...