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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.
Surviving an Avalanche
Parts of the Rocky Mountains have received almost 200 inches of snow already this year. Resorts in Sierra Nevada are measuring snowfall in feet, even through it's only the... When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Golfing Special Package
Highlands Reserve Golf ClubPhoto Courtesy of Highlands Reserve Golf Club
GolfPac Travel has put together this special package to Orlando where you'll stay four nights in one of Orlando’s favorite hotels,... Elevator: Pictures of the Dorint Hotel, Potsdam, Germany
Elevator: Picture of the Elevator of the Dorint Hotel in Potsdam, Germany. Vieques: Undiscovered and undeveloped
Relax on virginal white beaches once the property of the U.S. Navy, and stay at a stylish boutique hotel--no megaresorts here.
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