Photos of Kuroishi, Japan
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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.
Fireworks in the Fireplace Picture of the fireworks effect in the fireplace from Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. Learn to XC or Snowshoe Free This Saturday If there's snow covering the ground at a winter resort near you, odds are excellent you can learn to cross country ski or snowshoe free next Saturday. Some of... Winter Comfort Food: Regional specialties Every region in America has its own comfort-food specialties, from the stalwart hot puddings of New England to the creamy chowders of the Pacific Northwest.
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