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These NAFTA Men--and a few women--are genetically engineered by the new border economy. Managers are taught to take a different route to work every day to foil potential kidnappers. They grow accustomed to training--and losing--an entire factory floor of workers every year. And they have discovered that "casual Friday" in McAllen is often a dress-up workday on the other side. Around here, the most valuable asset is their flexibility. "You have to switch gears in Mexico--and not just languages. You have a behavior shift too," says Charles Taliaferro, 49, who runs maquila operations...
...York taught me that culturally I was more than a Mexicana. There were Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on my street; I went to school with them, along with Cubans, Argentines and Peruvians; I bumped into Salvadoran and Chilean refugees in community centers. I began to see that I was part of a continent--from Patagonia to el Caribe. I still called myself a Mexicana, but I came to consider myself something bigger, a Latina without borders...
...funny way, the LSE experience taught me how different the world looks when viewed from a developing country than from viewing the world from the world I was used to,” Rubin says...
...were special students at Harvard, exclusively taking seminars in order to make the most of the short time they had to study. Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Samuel P. Huntington, both professors of government, taught them personally...
...most fruitful years in both of our lives," he says. "Harvard taught us how to think. Because we were in the company of leading minds from around the world, it added a global dimension to our education...