Photos of Yermish, Russia
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.
Getting out of Town: Blue Hill at Stone Barns A rainy afternoon on the farm By Mollie Chen On Friday, my editor Gully and I took a little field trip up the Hudson to Pontico Hills, New York, to Blue Hill at Stone Barns. There, we met up with...
Travel Blog Carnival - Chinese New Year Celebrations One week from today, the Year of the Ox begins in China. Fortunately, you don't have to go all the way to Beijing to join in the celebration. ... C.M., Elbow: Bedbug Bites C.M.'s Elbow: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. Nashua Hotel Are these pictures really ghosts caught on film? See for yourself with these ghostly pictures taken in reportedly haunted hotels by guests. |
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