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...INDICATORS Drug Deal On the eve of talks in Cancún, the World Trade Organization's executive council approved a deal granting poor countries access to cheaper drugs, after the body's 146 members had agreed to ease patent rules for vital treatments...
...know exactly when I lost my mind. June 1996, just south of the border in a pueblocita they call Cancún. The agent of my transformation: a stylish devil named Tequila. My senior trip was about foam parties and shady beds, not yards of beer and wet T-shirt contests. In the end I looked more like a "popcorn crab" (the words of a best friend) than Serena Atschul. Does it matter? Maybe...
...could argue that this liberdad simply marked a point at which "so many fetters" had just been removed. My life was all lightness, and no weight: I was leaving behind 13 years of history in my school, I was into college, and I was in Cancún, busting so many moves on bartops...
...goes the way of the manual orange-juice squeezer or the crank phone? Progress is progress. It isn't as if the invention itself is dropping from existence; there are new electronic microchip jobs that automatically produce a thousand individually addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly...
Package tours, as always, are the best buys. American Express has been offering seven-night stays in economy-class hotels in Acapulco or Cancún for $99, not including airfare. Mexico Travel Advisers (M.T.A.), the largest U.S. wholesaler of package tours to Mexico, can fly the vacationer from Los Angeles or San Diego to Mazatlan and back, put him up at a good hotel for a week and include sightseeing and airport transportation for $236. Los Angeles residents can get away even more cheaply by driving to Tijuana (about 2½ hours) and flying on to their holiday destinations...