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Obama's Oahu: The new President's tour
Find out where the 44th President eats, stays, surfs, and plays--and how you can follow in his footsteps.
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... Bed Bug On Skin
Picture of a bed bug on human skin. Swimming Pool at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the 11-acre beach and swimming pool area at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 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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