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Cheap is one reason why many snowbirds spend 10 months a year in Mexico and then "vacation" back north during the hot summer. They can live comfortably on $500 a month, renting a plot for a trailer. Splurging, they can build an adobe mansion with a hot tub and a view of the sea for $80,000. A local doctor makes house calls for less than $20; prescription drugs often cost less than a third of their price in the U.S.--and for serious medical problems, a U.S. hospital is a three-hour drive away. At twilight, the dune buggies...
Stephen M. O’Donnell is quite possibly the only member of the Class of 1976 to have nearly died while being lowered into a tub of water wearing a suit made of Alka-Seltzer...
Unfortunately for O’Donnell, the writers of the sketch didn’t know their chemistry. When Alka-Seltzer and water combine, they release carbon dioxide. So, as O’Donnell hung suspended in the tub of water, he was engulfed by the massive amount of carbon dioxide given off by his effervescent suit...
...lungs filled with the carbon dioxide and he passed out. Eventually, someone noticed, pulled him from the tub and slapped him back to his senses...
MONDAY RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL If you set off a bomb here, millions of units of sanitizing tub-and-tile cleanser would go tragically unmarketed. The ad crowd gathered here seems a bit smug this year. The networks raked in a record $8 billion in last year's flush times; now it's a buyer's market. So as NBC touts its new series--a dubious-looking sitcom starring high-decibel chef Emeril Lagasse, the 1,000th version of Law & Order (O.K., the third)--it touts even more its high-income viewers, the real-life Frasier Cranes who make...