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Map of Las Vegas Strip: Hotels on a Map of the Las Vegas Strip
Interactive map of Las Vegas Strip Hotels from Mandalay Bay to the Stratosphere. Could You Survive an Airplane Crash Over Water?
Yesterday's miraculous Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549 has given rise to all kinds of speculation about the chances of surviving a similar crash.
About.com's own Guide to Air... 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.
Copenhagen: Beautiful castles and 21st-century architectural wonders
This city has a clean and progressive design informed by hyggethe Danish instinct for coziness and domesticity.
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AAA Diamond Ratings Explained
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