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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.
Chinese New Year: Year of the Ox
Another New Year's Eve is nearly here: January 25 2008 is the night before the Year of Ox begins, and over at About.com's China Travel site, Sara Naumann's blog highlights... World Golf Village – Couples Golf Package at Laterra Resort and Spa
World Golf Village, St. Augustine, FLPhoto Courtesy of World Golf Village
Golfpac Travel maintains that “one of our favorite properties for golfing couples is Laterra Resort & Spa near Jacksonville, Florida.”... Disney World Resort Photos: Pictures from Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
Pictures of Walt Disney World's All-Star Movies Resort: 101 Dalmations outside guest rooms. Kyle, Face: Bedbug Bites
Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs.
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