Photos of Pucheni, Romania
Travel articles Bed Bug on Human Finger Picture of a bed bug on a human finger. 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.
Valentine's Day Getaways Can't think of a Valentine's Day gift for him or for her? Give a weekend Valentine's Day getaway instead. Which President Was the Best Traveled? It would be an exaggeration to say that a great president is by definition a well-traveled one--Abraham Lincoln never left the United States--yet for most, leaving Washington now and then was both edifying and expedient.
Kyle, Arm: Bedbug Bites Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. |
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