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Contemporary Resort
Disney's Contemporary Resort, a Deluxe category resort, is situated on the Seven Seas Lagoon, close the Magic Kingdom. The monorail passes right through the hotel. Photographs of Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club
Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country ClubPhoto Courtesy of Bay Hill Country Club
Bay Hill and Arnold Palmer have inextricably become linked together. Today, although Bay Hill is the home of the... 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.
Visit Obama's Oahu
The February 2009 issue Condé Nast Traveler pays its respects to the 44th president with a guide to Obama's Hawaiian haunts, a sampling of eateries, beaches, and hang-outs far off the familiar, lei-strewn path of the typical tourist.
Bare at Mirage Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Mirage Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.
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