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.
Uptown/Garden District: New Orleans Hotels Map
Map of Hotels and Inns in the Uptown/Garden District Area of New Orleans Cinderella's Crown and Scepter
Picture of Cinderella's crown, seen in the entrance to Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Pictures: Sonesta Key Biscayne
Take a photo tour before you go with pictures of the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne. Pictures of the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne include the lobby, restaurants, swimming pool and beach. After the Crash: A Tale of Two Airlines
As divers prepare to raise the airplane engine of US Airways flight 1549 from the depths of the frozen Hudson River, the warm and fuzzy--if not saccharine--coverage of the "miracle" on the Hudson continues apace.
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