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A Foodie in the White House: Edible D.C.
Our nation's capital is abuzz with Obama fans today, but our nation's best publications have been abuzz with D.C. food news for weeks. Here are some of the more appetizing headlines
Try Walt Disney World for Golf and Fun in the Sun in Orlando, FL
The 2nd at Disney's Palm CoursePhoto Courtesy of Walt Disney World
There's more to Walt Disney World than Mr. Micky & Co. Golf is high on the list of things to... Cheap Train Tickets
In many places, train travel is an afterthought. The rise of budget airlines within Europe led many away from train-heavy itineraries. But this fact remains -- the rail networks of... 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... 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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