Word: chihuahuas
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...story's the same elsewhere in Mexico. Migration patterns from south to north have become so routine that you can't get elected governor of the southern state of Puebla without campaigning in New York. And the road to the governor's job in the state of Chihuahua runs through Dallas. As more and more Mexicans leave home for points north, the nation's politicians--and its electorate--become increasingly Americanized. The farther away from Mexico City (and the closer to the border), the more independent-minded, entrepreneurial and individualistic the population becomes. Such thinking was once considered too "American...
...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 for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society and honest government. Fox pushed that transformation so hard that he eventually alienated himself from much of the P.A.N. hierarchy. He governs essentially as an individual--perhaps the ultimate...
...inland desalination plant in the U.S., costing $52 million, that will clean 20 million gal. of brackish water each day. In March the city started offering residents 50[cents] per sq. ft. to rip up their water-guzzling lawns and replace them with rocks and plants native to the Chihuahua desert. Juarez has banned any new high-water use maquiladoras and is encouraging factories to build water-recycling facilities...
Taco Bell drops chihuahua from...
...much a part of the surge in wired women as Ashley Power. A retired teacher, Close first went online six months ago at her daughter's urging. Now the Columbus, Ohio, widow spends three hours a day auctioning paper dolls on eBay, researching health facts for her Chihuahua and sending e-mail. Why didn't she make the leap sooner? "It was intimidating," she says. "But now I'm trying to get all my senior women friends online...