  Theories where the Standard Model fields reside on a 3-brane, with a low
fundamental cut-off and extra dimensions, provide alternative solutions to the
gauge hierarchy problem. However, generating flavor at the TeV scale while
avoiding flavor-changing difficulties appears prohibitively difficult at first
sight. We argue to the contrary that this picture allows us to lower flavor
physics close to the TeV scale. Small Yukawa couplings are generated by
``shining'' badly broken flavor symmetries from distant branes, and flavor and
CP-violating processes are adequately suppressed by these symmetries. We
further show how the extra dimensions avoid four dimensional disasters
associated with light fields charged under flavor. We construct elegant and
realistic theories of flavor based on the maximal U(3)^5 flavor symmetry which
naturally generate the simultaneous hierarchy of masses and mixing angles.
Finally, we introduce a new framework for predictive theories of flavor, where
our 3-brane is embedded within highly symmetrical configurations of
higher-dimensional branes.
