Photos of Thermi, Greece
Travel articles Jamaica: Beyond the Beach I was updating material on Jamaica resorts this week, which reminded me of our own trip there a few years back, and how fascinating it was to learn a... 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.
Disney's Deluxe Resorts Disney's Deluxe resorts put you closest to the magic and add luxuries not found at the other resorts, but at the highest rates. Madonna Inn - Rock Bottom - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn Rock Bottom: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Pray the Devil Back to Hell Last week I headed to Tribeca to see Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary that chronicles the truly remarkable story of the Liberian women (both Christian and Muslim) who came together to end a bloody, decades-old civil war.
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