Photos of Valea mare, Romania
Travel articles 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.
Kayaks and Catamarans Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) for Business Travel to the U.S. Until very recently (Jan 12, 2009), the Visa Waiver Program permitted business and tourist travelers to the U.S. the ability to stay in the States for up to 90 days... Could You Survive an Airplane Crash Over Water? Yesterday's miraculous Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549 has given rise to all kinds of speculation about the chances of surviving a similar crash.
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