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Scuba Diving in Aruba
Pictures of scuba diving in Aruba. Swimming Pool at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at Paris Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. Reasons to Love California, Including the Requisite Paean to Alice Waters and Gushing Account of the Ferry Plaza Market
Annie hearts Hayes St Grill po'boys By Mollie Chen The genial woman behind the Avis counter paused and looked at me. "You know," she said, "you can get a Prius for the same price." Sold. As I smugly approached our...
Cinderella
Picture of Cinderella meeting the first little girl to spend the night in her castle in Walt Disney World. 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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