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Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso
The best of all worlds, the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso combines all-inclusive convenience with luxurious accommodations, butler service and a breath-taking Caribbean beach. The Great American Food Tour
There is no better way to experience this nation's incredible diversity than to hit the road. Here are our secret finds, from Maine lobster rolls to New Mexico's green-chile cheeseburgers.
Aurora Ice Hotel
Unique hotel made entirely of ice sixty miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Nose to Nose with Velázquez on Google Earth
A new layer on Google Earth offers highly detailed views of 14 paintings from the museum including Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 in Madrid, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. And by highly detailed, we mean images that contain as many as 14 million pixels.
More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design
Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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