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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.
Miami Beach's Retro-Fabulous Fontainebleau Resort Reopens
Following a nearly three-year, $1 billion overhaul, that favorite retro-hip address of Rat Pack glitterati and old money Miami - the Fontainebleau Resort - reopened recently in Miami Beach. Never... Madonna Inn - Yahoo Room - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Yahoo Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Valentine's Day Getaways
Can't think of a Valentine's Day gift for him or for her? Give a weekend Valentine's Day getaway instead. Bed Bug On Skin
Picture of a bed bug on human skin.
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