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...another." (Those bee people are an ironic lot.) But there are a million tales from the spelling bee--for instance, the bizarre happenstance of seven contestants in a row making errors as soon as national TV coverage began, before Abhijith (A-b-h-i-j-i-t-h) Eswarappa broke the streak. Or the sad tale of Lauren Fowler, who, for the second straight year, went out on an item of Italian cuisine. Last year it was biscotti; this time saltimbocca. Porco Dio bee people. Porco...
...nobody was listening. What little tolerance existed in Tijuana for electronic music was obliterated by the arrival in the early '90s of rock en Espanol, an irony-free form of hard rock. Artefakto broke up, but Mogt and his friend Melo Ruiz, 32, kept experimenting with techno and electronica under the name Fussible (foo-SEE-blay) and sending out tapes to record companies. "Our music was too strange for the Mexican labels," Mogt recalls. "They kept telling us to make it more pop or put vocals on. The European labels thought it was too old and unoriginal, because in Europe...
...more embodies this shift than the Mexican President, Vicente Fox Quesada. His election last year was a political earthquake, in part because it broke the 71-year-long one-party rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I. Fox spent most of his business career working in Mexico City for Coca-Cola, the quintessential American company, and he likes to say--much as Ronald Reagan did--that U.S. business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration...
...Paso and Juarez will keep jury-rigging solutions. Last year, when encephalitis broke out in Juarez, El Paso's spray planes "accidentally" crossed the border to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. To reduce air pollution, El Paso is helping Juarez brickmakers redesign their kilns. And to eliminate the epic waits at border crossings, businessmen (from both sides of the border) fought for--and won--a "fast lane" for U.S. and Mexican citizens who are precleared by U.S. law enforcement agencies...
...thought the same thing: inside heat. But Ichiro, a quick-wristed, fast-out-of-the-box slap hitter with excellent bat control, will not be bullied. In a recent Mariners' victory against the defending champion Yankees, ace right-hander Roger Clemens threw a wicked 150 km/h splitter that broke near Ichiro's knees. No matter. Ichiro grazed the ball with the tip of his bat, sending it rolling down the third-base line for a double. (Typical of the way he has helped manufacture runs since Opening Day, when he keyed a game-winning rally with a bunt single, Ichiro...