Photos of Chunar, India
Travel articles Get a Passport Now for Spring Break Passport applications may take from six weeks to three months to process normally (unle$$ expedited), and you now have to have a passport to return to the US by air... 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.
Bed Bug on White Cloth Picture of a bed bug on a white cloth. Where to Stay for NYC Conventions Conventions are in full swing at the Javits Center in New York City for 2009. Hotels fill quickly around these events, so plan as far ahead as possible so you... 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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The Cheers Travel World / Chunar photos