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"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... Exterior of an Igloo
Spend the night in one of these igloo hotels, made entirely of snow and ice. Obama's Oahu: The new President's tour
Find out where the 44th President eats, stays, surfs, and plays--and how you can follow in his footsteps.
Swimming Pool at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas. 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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