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...easy to see why. Storefront signs in Los Algodones advertise 28 tablets of Prozac for $31.60, vs. $69.95 in the U.S. The estrogen supplement Premarin costs $6.50 for 42 tablets, compared with $30. A bottle of 90 10-mg tablets of Valium retails for $8.75, instead...
...available at Neiman's. Fashion advertising is rarely this conceptual or dark. In brilliantly composed photographs, the ad lays out a young woman's dream of becoming a model. Soon she is larger than life, literally towering over buildings and people. Pity her fate, though: she winds up a storefront mannequin...
...City's Chinatown, three eight-year--olds--a Hispanic, a Chinese and an African American--last week recited a poem they had written together in Cantonese and English. Patricia Nixon, a Manhattan resident who has sent her third-grader Anita there since kindergarten, boasts that the child can read storefront signs in Chinese and converse in the language. "She has a great opportunity," says Nixon, beaming...
...nowhere was the reaction more dramatic than in Papeete, Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, where several hundred rioters went on a rampage. In a 36-hour orgy of trashing and looting, they virtually destroyed Tahiti's international airport, smashed storefront windows and torched several buildings before French Foreign Legionnaires and paramilitary troops arrived. The upheaval, which injured 40 people and did damage estimated in the millions of dollars, was attributed to a volatile mixture of antinuclear and pro-independence sentiments...
...economy and is depressing retail sales nationwide. These delays often amount to eight to 12 weeks, an excruciating lag for low-income taxpayers counting on their refund to fix the car or pay the rent. Some such workers, accustomed to quick refunds, have taken out their frustrations on storefront tax preparers like Jesse Ivy of Chicago, who twice has called police to quell near riots. Says Kevin Crosby, who received death threats from a client: "Until now, I never thought of tax filing as being a high-risk business...