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Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Master Bedroom
Master Bedroom: Pictures of Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona Cinderella's Castle Suite
Always wanted to spend the night in Cinderella's Castle at Disney World? It's a dream come true for someone, every night this year. Sydney Festival 2009 On Through 1/31
After a reportedly epic Festival First Night shindig in the streets got the whole shebang off to a great start, Sydney Festival 2009 is now solidly under way in Oz's... 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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