Word: mexico
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Here is a paradox of America's health-care system: the U.S. invents most of the world's great prescription drugs, but thousands of Americans cross into Canada and Mexico to buy them. Some go on their own; others ride buses in organized tours sponsored by senior-citizen advocacy groups. Either way, they want medications that salve ills from leukemia to ulcers, mood disorders to high cholesterol. These are the identical life-improving, death-defying drugs that they would get at home--but for a fraction of the cost. And so it is on a November day in Nuevo Laredo...
...went to a meeting about it last fall," says Anne C. Durston '01, who worked for a family planning organization in Mexico City last summer. "The people who spoke there inspired me to look into finding an internship...
Still, Griffith says he is confident that Champion products are made under fair conditions. He recently saw a video of the company's new plant in Chihuahua, Mexico, and thought the facility looked "highly sterile...
Champion spokesperson Peggy C. Carter last week said she could not confirm whether the T-shirt came from the plant in Chihuahua, Mexico--a Mexican state located close to the Texas border--or even whether there is a factory in Chihuahua...
While he says he does not know the Champion factory well, he says all of the factories in the city have high standards, better than the conditions in other cities in Mexico such as Mexicali or Tijuana to the west...