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Aurora Ice Hotel
Unique hotel made entirely of ice sixty miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Falling Overboard - Are You at Risk?
Recent news reports, including CNN's coverage of a cruise ship worker who accidentally fell from the Carnival Sensation, have once again brought cruise ship safety into the limelight.
Should you worry... Isla Mujeres - Pictures of Isla Mujeres, Mexico - Isla Mujeres Photos
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from Isla Mujeres, Mexico: the Interactive Aquarium and Bluewater Marine. Spa
Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. 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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