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Picture Riding the US Rails
If you had to carry back liquids and gels in any appreciable volume after the holidays, you might have decided packing for complicated airport rules was a major drag.... Swimming Pool at the MGM Grand Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the MGM Grand Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Biofuel - the First Airline Trend of 2009
The green-ing of air travel is becoming a more permanent idea with the airlines. There are carbon offsets, some airlines have various recycling projects, you may be on a flight... Photos of Disney's Port Orleans Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida
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of rooms, lobby, lounge and restaurant areas of Disney's Port Orleans Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida 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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