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• Two year walk along Amazon River
  Ed Stafford has been walking the length of the Amazon River since April 2008. The English explorer talks CNN through a typical day. […]
• King Tut's chariot heads to New York
  A chariot once owned by Egypt's King Tutankhamun more than 3,300 years ago will be on exhibit starting next week at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York, officials announced Monday. […]
• Inventor of airplane flight recorders dies
  David Warren, the man who invented the airline flight data recorder commonly, though now incorrectly, known as the "black box," has died in his native Australia, the defense department said. […]
• Green travel flourishing in Tahiti
  The island of Tahiti boasts some of the most pristine beaches in the South Pacific. The postcard-worthy settings of the island, and those of its French Polynesian peers like Bora Bora, have been drawing travelers for centuries. […]
• Paraplegic pilot in solo record flight attempt
  A paraplegic pilot is planning an epic solo record-breaking flight from England to Australia. […]
• FAA steps up B-767 inspections
  The federal government is ordering airlines to perform more frequent inspections on certain Boeing 767 aircraft after cracks were found on engine pylons on two planes, saying undetected cracks could lead to engines separating from the wings. […]
• Head to the pub for soulful Irish music
  The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." […]