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The details continue to emerge over a downed US Airways aircraft on Thursday with over 150 passengers and crew aboard. The plane, which was headed to Charlotte, hit a flock... Rail Europe Tip: Buy Early
Let's face it: January is not a prime time for people to travel Europe by rail. But there are some good deals waiting for those who are willing to consider... The Cliff at Snowbird
Pictures of The Cliff Ski Resort: guest room, ice skating rink, zip rider, alpine slide and more. 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... 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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