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Chicago: World-class cuisine and modern American architecture
Enjoy great food and hear blues and jazz every night of the week in the land of Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters.
Grand Xcaret Occidental
The Grand Xcaret Occidental is a luxury all-inclusive beach resort on the Mexican Caribbean is adjacent to dramatic Xcaret Park. Entrance to the Pop Century Resort: Photos of Disney's Pop Century Resort, Walt Disney World, Florida
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of rooms, lobby, pool, lounge and restaurant areas of Disney's Pop Century Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. 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.
Picture Riding the US Rails
If you had to carry back liquids and gels in any appreciable volume after the holidays, you might have decided packing for complicated airport rules was a major drag....
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