Photos of Oliveirinha, Portugal
Travel articles Uptown/Garden District: New Orleans Hotels Map Map of Hotels and Inns in the Uptown/Garden District Area of New Orleans 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.
"In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
Affordable Luxury: Explore the world From an African safari to heli-skiing, here's how to live large for less--a tip for every month.
Stay and play Golf Packages at Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge, Orlando, Florida Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge, Florida, boasts of “two of the finest public golf courses Orlando Florida has to offer.” The Center's Golf Packages offer a great choice... |
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