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Palm Springs Gay Resorts Offering Some Great Pre-Holidays Bargains
High season for those playful clothing-optional gay resorts in Palm Springs is pretty much now, but there's a bit of a shoudler season from now until Christmas, and this is... Caitlin, Arm: Bedbug Bites
Caitlin's Arm: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. Explore the Great Smoky Mountains During Wilderness Wildlife Week
You'll venture into the wild during the annual Wilderness Week in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Jan. 10-17. During Wilderness Week, visitors learn more about and explore the Great Smoky Mountains... Biofuel - the First Airline Trend of 2009
The green-ing of air travel is becoming a more permanent idea with the airlines. There are carbon offsets, some airlines have various recycling projects, you may be on a flight... 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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