For ABB, CFE has been a lucrative client, an electric utility owned by the Mexican government that is responsible for supplying electricity to the entire country of Mexico except Mexico City.

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Most people are buried lying down, except in the Cipreses del Bosque graveyard in Mexico, where it is traditional to bury them standing up.

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At Cornell, the university in upstate New York to which he came in 1935 and which, except for his time in New Mexico, he never left, he made sure that professors' doors were always open.

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That's because so far the U.S. recession (if that's what we've got) is mainly tied to housing, a sector that doesn't affect Mexico much, he says, except as a drag on remittances sent by Mexicans working in the U.S. The Mexican peso's weakness against the euro has also helped drive up Mexico's exports to Europe.

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At the higher end, if visiting places like Pebble Beach, Destination Kohler, Kiawah or the top courses of Mexico, Canada or the Caribbean, they add little except cost, cannot get you access to truly private courses, and with a bit of research and access to the internet, you can easily put these trips together on your own.

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