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Hotel Maps: New Orleans French Quarter Map
New Orleans French Quarter map of hotels and landmarks. "Miracle on the Hudson"
Conde Nast Traveler aviation correspondent Barbara Peterson learned how to ditch an aircraft as part of a flight attendant training course she underwent a few years ago. She shares her take on yesterday's incredible events--a USAirways flight landing in the...
As Seen at Hoover Dam
Doesn't this go without saying?
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... The Great American Food Tour
There is no better way to experience this nation's incredible diversity than to hit the road. Here are our secret finds, from Maine lobster rolls to New Mexico's green-chile cheeseburgers.
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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