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Portable GPS devices seem to be getting better by the day, and TomTom's GO 740 Live is the latest addition to the increasingly competitive field. The most promising feature is the new Google search function, which means no longer depending on the Points of Interests stored in the TomTom database.
Do you need a kitchen in your room?
Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotel for your next trip. This question is: Do you need a kitchen in your room? Spa
Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Bathroom Amenities
Picture of the amenities in the bathroom of Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. 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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