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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for January 2008

Democratic debate tonight: Obama and Clinton... "We're having a wonderful time"

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Rise of violent attacks against Jews in Russia: In 2007, 67 people were killed and more than 550 injured

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 10:18 PM | Add Comment

Political Pulse: Polls show American voters believe next president has much power over issues like inflation, interest rates, health care costs, gas costs; more

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 6:49 AM | Add Comment

A doctor's diet tips: 5 Foods for Healthier Skin, by Leslie Baumann, M.D.

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 1:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

English lottery winner would give all his money up to spend a few more years with his wife

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:40 AM | Add Comment

Romanian ex-priest murdered young nun during an exorcism: she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days.

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Half Moon Bay, CA

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

Photo: China / wild macaques huddle in freezing weather

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:21 AM | Add Comment

Aung San Suu Kyi tells Myanmar: "Prepare for the worst"

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

NYPD police detective held runaway teen hostage, and pimped her out at parties

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2008 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Middle East blanketed with snow: see pictures of Jerusalem

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:17 PM | Add Comment

Today on the American Presidential Campaign Trail: Headlines

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:03 PM | Add Comment

John Edwards drops out of presidential race

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 11:57 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Brazil ... woman goes for plastic surgery world record

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:37 AM | Add Comment

Hate crimes on the rise in Russia, against students from Africa, visitors from Asian countries, Jews and Russian anti-Nazi activists

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:32 AM | Add Comment

Shetland Islanders celebrate Viking fire festival

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Poor Haitians must live on a diet of dirt

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2008 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Australia will issue its first formal apology to Aborigines

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 9:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Hummingbird

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 8:02 PM | Add Comment

Austin, Texas: Man sets fire to radio station after song list for his program "Mellow Down Easy" was changed

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 7:57 PM | Add Comment

Japanese girl sends out letter by balloon; gets it back by fish, 15 years later

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 7:54 PM | Add Comment

Research tracks depression: Study finds "Middle-age is truly depressing"

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 3:04 PM | Add Comment

Extremely important! Doctors and Nurses (and others) who rely on hand gels to sanitize and prevent infection; it is not enough

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 3:01 PM | Add Comment

Abraham Lincoln's summer cottage, where he paced the floors contemplating the end of slavery, to open to the public February 18

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 2:01 AM | Add Comment

Bush's State of the Union Speech: Congress unlikely to buy proposals, but is "poised to heed... the call to help save the economy"

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Russia limits foreign election monitors

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 1:50 AM | Add Comment

Featured Artist for February's Issue of La Luciole Magazine: Girls Rock! The Movie

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

Russian registration of independent candidates for election draws: "A self-styled tsar, four empresses and scores of other eccentrics"

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2008 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Hilarious Vermont lawmaker is also a comic. Great fun to read...

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2008 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Are Men Smarter than Women? Newsweek article

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2008 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Women lose in Mexico Indian rights gain: they aren't allowed to vote in local elections, because — the men say — they don't do enough work. One brave woman runs for mayor.

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo: New Miss America. She's no skinny, retiring gal. She looks quite strong!

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

From Spain: A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Last German World War I veteran dies, and almost no one notices

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Alaska

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 1:33 AM | Add Comment

Son of Kansas Governor and a judge creates a prison-themed boardgame called "Don't Drop the Soap" with things like: "avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room, fight off Latin Kings in Gang War"

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2008 1:25 AM | Add Comment

It is official; man calculates a snail could have beat his priority mail delivery

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2008 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Man who stole Salvation Army kettle of donations sentenced to spend one night homeless

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2008 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Evangelical groups, who also protest funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, will protest Heath Ledger's memorials because of "Brokeback Mountain" role

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: India

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 5:59 PM | Add Comment

Gandhi's grandson resigns from peace center after his comments that Israel and the Jews are the biggest players in a culture of violence; "I have criticized the governments of the U.S., India and China in much the same way," he said

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 5:55 PM | Add Comment

Alaska's Native Languages are dying out. Last native Eyak speaker, Marie Smith Jones, dies at 89

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 5:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

HUD OKs diverting housing funds of $600 million (to rebuild homes after Hurricane Katrina) to a port improvement project

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Study states loneliness breeds belief in supernatural

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Extremely important!! Patients should not be too shy to ask health care providers (docs, nurses, etc.) to wash their hands!

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 3:29 PM | Add Comment

Diana Bonebrake, Art Editor of La Luciole Magazine, features photographer Jim Herrington. Read her article!

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 12:25 AM | Add Comment

New York Times endorses Clinton and McCain

Posted by kluciole at 1/25/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Library gets a book back after being checked out for 57 years!

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 6:57 PM | Add Comment

Myanmar poet arrested because love poetry carried hidden message criticizing the leader of the military junta

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 5:10 PM | Add Comment

Russian woman returns from vacation to find nothing left of her home; construction company mistakenly tore down her house

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Mexico City rolls out "ladies-only" buses because of groping and verbal harassment

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 3:46 PM | Add Comment

Democratic Dennis Kucinich quits presidential race; will focus on keeping his Congressional seat

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 3:15 PM | Add Comment

Bjork and the best cat montage ever... truly!

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 4:37 AM | Add Comment

Extremely unusual: girl who receives liver transplant in Australia spontaneously switches blood types!

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 4:04 AM | Add Comment

Cat hitches a ride in owner's suitcase, rode plane from Florida to Texas

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 12:37 AM | Add Comment

Survey suggests British people growing more liberal in ideas on sex, "But behavior appears to have changed less than attitudes."

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

British human "pet" girl is kicked off a bus for wearing a leash

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2008 12:21 AM | Add Comment

Interesting human-like rock formation on Mars

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2008 11:26 AM | Add Comment

I can't even balance a book on my head...

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2008 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Teens in Winnipeg steal a car to get to their court-mandated counseling program that is aimed to stop them from stealing cars

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2008 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Study: False statements by President Bush and top officials preceded war

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Maryland man calls governor's office and finds out mistaken phone listing is for escort service; in 2 years, he is the first person to report the mistake

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 8:10 PM | Add Comment

Officer unwittingly falls for thief's claims that his passenger is pregnant; escorts stolen car to hospital where suspects get away

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 8:08 PM | Add Comment

Firefighters Work To Sink Rudy Giuliani's Campaign

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Heath Ledger. An opinion.

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 3:18 PM | Add Comment

Maine resident Elizabeth Emerson receives boxes of chocolate from kind donors after the 87-year-old reveals... read the rest!

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 3:43 AM | Add Comment

Lion in the snow!

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 5:30 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Family forces annulment of marriage for couple Fatima and Mansour al-Timani in Saudi Arabia; the couple and their children were jailed for living together 'illegally.'

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Never seen before in astronomy: Old Stars getting ready to birth second generation of planets

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Nigerian drug informant: promised refuge in America for his work as an informant 20 years ago, now to be deported to face torturous death?

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 1:09 PM | Add Comment

Genocides. Never Again?

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 1:08 PM | Add Comment

Martin Luther King Jr.: "in a culture of top 10 lists, of celebrity biopics which simplify the past ... King has slipped into the realm of symbol that people use and manipulate for their own purposes"

Posted by kluciole at 1/20/2008 9:46 PM | Add Comment

Chuck Norris' great wisdom: "McCain too old to be president." (by the way, Chuck is 4 years younger than McCain)

Posted by kluciole at 1/20/2008 8:19 PM | Add Comment

Maori poet Hone Tuwhare has died at the age of 86; was named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate in 1999

Posted by kluciole at 1/20/2008 5:48 PM | Add Comment

France's oldest man dies; WWI veteran refused a military decoration, saying "Some of my comrades weren't even given a wooden cross"

Posted by kluciole at 1/20/2008 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Poland's new government increasingly skeptical, fears retaliation from Russia if it allows building of planned U.S. missile defense system

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2008 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Iceland donates $75,000 for a North Dakota community to build a center to "honor their rich and unique Icelandic heritage"

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2008 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Russia's armed forces chief says Moscow could use nuclear arms pre-emptively if under serious threat

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2008 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe. The mysterious visitor still keeps vigil at your grave.

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2008 5:10 PM | Add Comment

Ellen R. Sheeley, author of "Reclaiming Honor in Jordan": A National Public Opinion Survey on “Honor” Killings

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 11:10 PM | Add Comment

Baby the Greatest and La Luciole Magazine

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 3:36 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tiger attack victim: admits being drunk, yelling and waving at the tiger while standing on the railing by the tiger moat at San Francisco Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Osama bin Laden's son, Omar, wishes to be an activist for Peace

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 3:22 AM | Add Comment

Flu Virus can live on banknotes (dollar bills) for up to two and a half weeks. Bad news for pandemic. Wash those hands!

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 3:13 AM | Add Comment

Stephen Colbert: Finally, his portrait hangs in the Smithsonian!

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2008 9:55 PM | Add Comment

Chris Matthews says: the reason Hillary Clinton is a senator and a candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2008 9:50 PM | Add Comment

20 countries where 80 percent of the world's undernourished children live: targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2008 9:47 PM | Add Comment

Two articles on the San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack. One is on Tatiana, and her role as predator. The other is: the survivors have been charged with battery against a police officer, etc.

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2008 1:59 PM | Add Comment

Banjo Paterson: The poet who wrote "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda"

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2008 1:41 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Angel Gonzalez, a few snippets

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 7:47 PM | Add Comment

Spanish poet Angel Gonzalez dead at 82

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Study shows, children hate clowns

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Protests end in Dresden to protect a 200-year-old beech tree, clearing the way for a bridge over the Elbe River

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Harsh lessons in Germany; don't spit gasoline while you smoke, and don't throw yourself out a window with a Christmas tree

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Patricia Carragon's reading schedule

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 12:34 AM | Add Comment

On this day in history, Jan. 15th...

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2008 12:20 AM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend Bridget Van Loon. Jackson Katz's article: "Dennis Kucinich endorses Hustler."

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2008 4:48 PM | View Comments (28) | Add Comment

Did the threatening radio messages in the Persian Gulf come from a prankster, rather than from Iranian vessels? Navy Times reports.

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2008 1:02 PM | Add Comment

Families allow love marriage instead of forcing arranged marriages; “This wedding has turned out to be like a classic Bollywood movie”

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2008 12:21 AM | Add Comment
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