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...involved in the harassment of Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. While researching a story on a possible mob shakedown of actor Steven Seagal, Busch found a dead fish, a rose and a note reading STOP on her car. Police traced the threat to an ex-con who said he had been hired by Pellicano on behalf of Seagal...
...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 members throughout California to travel to Mexico for care...
...appeal for employers and consumers is the health plans' relatively low price. For example, a standard Health Net HMO plan for a family of four costs about $500 a month, while Salud con Health Net's low-cost HMO option costs about $300. Even if 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...
...Coast ports account for about 5% of Asia's total GDP; between $1 billion and $2 billion worth of cargo sets out across the Pacific every autumn day as American retailers stock shelves for the upcoming holiday shopping season. For export-driven economies, the West Coast crisis was immediately con-tagious. First to feel the effects was the shipping industry, whose intricate schedules quickly plunged into chaos. Manufacturers' supply chains were the next to buckle. Honda, for example, halted production at its U.S. auto plants due to a shortage of parts, while suppliers to Sony and Dell were forced...
...once known as tinkers, moved to the U.S. to escape the potato famine. They started out as horse traders. Today, between 20,000 and 100,000 English, Scottish and Irish Travelers (nobody knows the actual number) live in groups, mostly in the South. They are reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly by overcharging for shoddy home-repair jobs. Others insist the Travelers are hard workers and have no more lawbreakers than any other community...