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"Miracle on the Hudson"
Conde Nast Traveler aviation correspondent Barbara Peterson learned how to ditch an aircraft as part of a flight attendant training course she underwent a few years ago. She shares her take on yesterday's incredible events--a USAirways flight landing in the...
Pinehurst Resort $252 on Number 2 Special
Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina, is offering a special golf package good through March 7. The package includes a round of golf on the famed Pinehurst No. 2 course, accommodations and... Finding a Pad in Venice
Start with a visit to Wendy's Rolodex of Top Villa Agents. There you will see that the right person to contact is Denise Corsile of Venice Rentals in Quincy, Massachusetts, for an apartment.
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Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. 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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