Photos of Librazhd, Albania
Travel articles The Tank at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Golden Nugget Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Birds to Blame for Plane Crash in New York The details continue to emerge over a downed US Airways aircraft on Thursday with over 150 passengers and crew aboard. The plane, which was headed to Charlotte, hit a flock... 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.
Kyle, Shoulder: Bedbug Bites Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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