They motored to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to wait for the weather to improve--and ended up buying a house there.

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In addition to most domestic flights in the U.S. and Canada, the food-for-purchase program will apply to leisure destinations such as Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands, Continental spokeswoman Christen David said.

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While she was married to Richard Burton, whom she famously met on the set of Cleopatra while still married to crooner Eddie Fisher (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for her making them the Jen-Brangelina of their day), Taylor bought a parcel of land in what as then a lonely undeveloped stretch of beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of the environmental group Rainforest Action Network, died Wednesday while caught in the surf in Mexico near Puerto Vallarta.

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The champions of casinos offer a vision: of turning Mexico's holiday resorts, such as Cancun, Los Cabos or Puerto Vallarta, into Las Vegas-by-the-sea.

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