Photos of Valmiera, Latvia
Travel articles Cinderella Picture of Cinderella meeting the first little girl to spend the night in her castle in Walt Disney World. Travel Advisory - Holiday Weather Delays Many regions of the U.S. are experiencing treacherous weather - just as all of us are trying to get home for the holidays. Many travelers in Seattle, for... 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.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell Last week I headed to Tribeca to see Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary that chronicles the truly remarkable story of the Liberian women (both Christian and Muslim) who came together to end a bloody, decades-old civil war.
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