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Beat the Bidding System
Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort
The Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort is inexpensive, kid-friendly and close to Disney World. First Family to Stay in Cinderella's Castle Suite
Picture of the Fouch Family of DeWitt, Michigan, the first family to be selected to spend the night in Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Secrets to Lower Hotel Rates
Finding good deals on great hotels shouldn't be a mystery. Here's the inside scoop. Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
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