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Boycott or No, Utah Prepares for Gay Ski Week
Although some activists have called for boycotting travel to Utah this year in the fallout of California's Proposition 8 passage, which the state's LDS church heavily supported, plans continue with... 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.
Grand Floridian Pictures - Disney's Grand Floridian - Pictures of the Grand Floridian
Pictures of Grand Floridian at Disney World: Overhead View of The Grand Floridian, with the Magic Kingdom in the background. Orlando Promotions
"The economy" is putting a pall on a lot of plans this year, but family vacation town Orlando, Florida doesn't want to be crossed off anybody's list. Orlando frequently has... Caitlin, Arm #2: Bedbug Bites
Caitlin's Arm #2: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs.
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