Travel articles
Miami: Stop off after the Super Bowl
Don't just see the game and leave. Enjoy all that Miami has to offer--it's an increasingly sophisticated showplace of art and design.
Beat the Bidding System
Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Bed Bug On Skin
Picture of a bed bug on human skin. Air Fare Deal to Australia
A few days ago I told you about a good Air New Zealand deal for folks who want to combine Australia and New Zealand in one trip and can travel in May. If your destination is Australia only, and you...
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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