Travel articles
Cali, Final Edition: Keller Unbuttoned, Greasy Burritos, and Barbecued Oysters
Nick's Cove: gorgeous views and fantastic oysters By Mollie Chen And finally, five last reasons to love California. Now I can stop procrastinating and get started on all the very late copy I owe our Production department. Liberty Farms duck...
Swimming Pool at the Bellagio Las Vegas
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Royal Bathroom
Picture of the bathroom in Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. Hard Rock Hotel
This hotel within the Universal complex offers much for families, including kid suites and a sandy bottom pool with a waterslide. 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.
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