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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.
View from the Castle Suite
Picture of the view from Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. Swimming Pool at Treasure Island Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Treasure Island Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Apartment Rental in Rome
My family in Rome last month. (Yes, those are the Spanish Steps.) Conde Nast Traveler reader M. Kaplan has written in asking for advice regarding renting an apartment in Rome: "My husband and I have enjoyed your useful, practical travel...
Cheap Train Tickets
In many places, train travel is an afterthought. The rise of budget airlines within Europe led many away from train-heavy itineraries. But this fact remains -- the rail networks of...
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