Photos of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Travel articles Bathroom Vanity Picture of the vanity in the bathroom of Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. 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.
Falling Overboard - Are You at Risk? Recent news reports, including CNN's coverage of a cruise ship worker who accidentally fell from the Carnival Sensation, have once again brought cruise ship safety into the limelight.
Should you worry... MGM Grand One of the largest hotels in the world, the MGM Grand dominates the corner it takes up, with a huge gold lion and gigantic video screens outside. One of the largest hotels in the world with over 5,000 guest rooms, the MGM Grand is like a city within itself. When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by Weather After the last blog entry about flight delays and cancellations due to the airline's own issue, I thought it might be good to look at the flip side - when... |
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