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...maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view of both cities. He admits that the border isn't Silicon Valley. "But we can see that...
...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...
...would easily cost $4,000 in the States." How Nellie Kidwell, 84, forks over only $49 a year in property taxes for her two-bedroom, two-bath home near the beach. And how Rose Lahey's timid boyfriend won't drive down from California because "he's paranoid about Mexican bandidos." Says Lahey, 55, a retired letter carrier: "You're safer here than in L.A. any day--and it's better than going postal...
...Felipe is one of a handful of Mexican towns that have become magnets for gringo retirees, and another reason why it's often hard to tell where one country stops and the other begins. About 125 miles south of the border, this once tiny fishing village now stretches along the blue-green waters of the Sea of Cortez into a 50-mile-long cordon of dusty RV parks and mid-market subdivisions, all catering to seniors. Some 24,000 Mexicans and 9,000 nortenos coexist here, more apart than together. There are separate services in English and Spanish...
...resort. Few of the settlements have electricity. But refrigerators run on propane and computers on solar panels. Cell phones substitute for land lines. E-mail is offered through The Net, a computer service run by physicist Tony Colleraine, who retired early from defense contractor General Atomics and now hustles Mexican businesses to advertise on www.sanfelipe.com.mx...