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...clinics. Attracted by low prices and easy access, cash-paying travelers, most of them Latino, have for years come from as far north as San Francisco to obtain medical and dental care in Tijuana and other border towns. But these days, the patients are carrying fewer greenbacks and more plastic insurance cards, as a growing number of U.S. health-insurance companies offer bargain prices for those willing to get their care in Mexico...
...caricature to be funky. One feels as though they’ve just stepped into the France portion of the Epcot Center, with cute French food vocabulary that anyone, not just French speakers, might understand (bierre en boutailles, eau de vie and les vins) printed on bright plastic panels behind the bar. Everything is too neatly arranged to be real, the white bistro-style dishes and dishcloths for napkins too self-consciously chosen. They amount to a bistro-style restaurant rather than a bistro. Probably somebody’s bistro-themed kitchen would feel more like Paris...
...have booze,” Julian Casablancas slurs in front of an audience of thousands, cradling a plastic giraffe donated by the Harvard Lampoon, “we’ll be there?...
Think being green is as simple as separating paper and plastic? Leading an environmentally aware life is one thing, but disposal afterward is quite another. Cemeteries take up land; traditional burials (which cost about $7,000) may use caskets that rust from the inside out; and spillage from toxic embalming chemicals, according to the Funeral Consumers Alliance, can be flushed into the general sewerage system. Three ways to rest in green peace...
...music doesn't seem out of place among the wooden tables and rice paper lanterns of the Golden Scales Teashop. After all, its interior design is a study in eclecticism. A Chinese landscape painting shares a wall with an aging beer ad. A stuffed fish capers among vines of plastic grapes. The proprietress, gliding soundlessly over the warped wooden floor, serves me a refreshing bowl of o-mi (five-flavor) tea?sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty. Not unlike lemonade, I decide, as I drain the curious concoction of tea, tangerine slices, pine nuts, jubjubes and chunks...