Mexico’s 200th birthday: Battered, not broken

Mexico’s 200th birthday: Battered, not broken
As Mexico limps into the bicentennial of its 1810 independence uprising, it is battered and full of self-questioning, but with more openness and debate than perhaps at any other time in its history.
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More evolution than Eureka!
BaselWorld and the SIHH in Geneva are magnificent showcases of the world’s watch manufacturers. Although we journalists tend to think that they attend for our benefit, the watch companies participate with one objective: to sell … and 2006 appears to have been a fabulous year.
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Why tourists no longer go loco in Acapulco
Dressed in a vintage safari suit and standing beneath a mango tree, Adolfo Santiago welcomes new arrivals to The Flamingo, a hotel advertised by the sign on its entrance gates as the, “Hideaway of the Hollywood stars, on the highest cliffs in Acapulco”. Above his reception desk are photographs of famous former guests, from Errol Flynn and Red Skelton to Roy Rogers and Cary Grant. Tellingly …
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