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Great Air Fare From New York to Hawaii
Attention, fellow New Yorkers: Today's Top 20 Deals alert from Travelzoo.com lists air fare from New York to Hawaii for $385 roundtrip; according to Travelzoo, once you add in all the taxes, your total ends up being $455 to $465....
Pop Century
Disney's newest value hotel, the Pop Century Resort, plays around with pop culture icons from every decade of the 20th century. The resort is decorated with giant versions of memorable items like the Rubix Cube and a Mickey telephone. Bring Donations For Kids
Heading to a resort in a tropical country? Often, such countries are home to many needy kids. Why not pack some school supplies, baby clothes, toys, or other gifts... Cinderella's Crown and Scepter
Picture of Cinderella's crown, seen in the entrance to Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. 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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