Photos of Maurepas, France
Travel articles 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.
What You MUST Know Before Scooping Up a Cruise "Deal" My kids in New York Harbor last March, on the deck of a cruise ship bound for the Bahamas. At this moment of our economic downturn, when cruise lines are promoting outrageous discounts in order to fill their ships at...
Scuba in Aruba Pictures of scuba in Aruba. Chicago Celebrates Holidays on Halsted The heart of GLBT Chicago's Lakeview/Boystown neighborhood, Halsted Street is the site of Holiday on Halsted on Saturday, December 6, from 1 until 5 pm. This festive seasonal event sponsored... "In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
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