Photos of Yei, Sudan
Travel articles 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.
Book Review: DK Eyewitness Travel Guides You won't find too many travel books (if any) that surpass DK Eyewitness Travel Guides for detail and illustration quality. But do they actually benefit a budget traveler or do... A Foodie in the White House: Edible D.C. Our nation's capital is abuzz with Obama fans today, but our nation's best publications have been abuzz with D.C. food news for weeks. Here are some of the more appetizing headlines
"In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by the Airline Having worked for an airline for almost 15 years, I've seen a lot of the unavoidable reality of air travel - flights will delay or cancel. There are two types... |
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