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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for February 2008

Planet Venus Mysteries Blamed on Colossal Collision; born of "a far worse cosmic train wreck" than the one that could have created Earth's moon

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 6:40 AM | Add Comment

Time article: Why Is Obama's Middle Name Taboo? Is Obama hurting his own cause with the way he handles situations like his name or ceremonial visits, by shying away from differences?

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 6:34 AM | Add Comment

World War Two Navajo code talkers honored

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 3:14 AM | Add Comment

Scientist who created the Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, says the design of Abu Ghraib turned "good soldiers into evil tormentors... Heroism is the antidote to evil"

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 3:07 AM | Add Comment

Photography. President George Bush has hilarious expressions when answering reporters

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Study shows bacteria common in snowflakes

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

Lucky baby girl in India survives incredible premature birth as mother uses train toilet; baby "slipped down the toilet bowl of moving train onto tracks"

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Funny story from Pennsylvania: Dogs trap mail carrier, flatten tires (everyone gets out ok)

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Obama has small lead in Texas, close in Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Clinton counts on women for comeback: "I am thrilled to be running to be the first woman president, which I think would be a sea change in our country and around the world"

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 10:37 PM | Add Comment

LA Times article by T.C. Boyle about wonderful bookstore Dutton's closing: features Luciole friend Scott Wannberg.

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 9:50 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Madrid, Spain, and Australia. Will PETA spark a trend?

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 9:07 AM | Add Comment

Today on the presidential campaign trail

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 9:04 AM | Add Comment

Time article: Does Experience Matter in a President?

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 9:00 AM | Add Comment

China may scrap one-child policy "will not do away with family-planning policies altogether." China's population would grow to 1.5 billion people by 2033

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 6:02 AM | Add Comment

Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye: complicated new surgical technique

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 6:00 AM | Add Comment

French fossil hunters have pinned down the age of "Toumai"... Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 5:55 AM | Add Comment

Crowded cribs linked to baby deaths: Parents are putting their babies at risk when they place pillows and other soft bedding in their cribs

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 5:52 AM | Add Comment

Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Check out his honestly fantastic book, Numbskull Sutra. Thurston Moore just ranked it in his Top 40 of 2007 for Arthur Magazine

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 4:33 AM | Add Comment

Poetry: "TONIGHT I SIT, A TANKFUL OF FISH" by Geraldine Green. In La Luciole

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 3:45 AM | Add Comment

Photography from La Luciole. Berry Ice, by Karen Bowles

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2008 3:41 AM | Add Comment

The Other Boleyn Girl review: "a highbrow soap opera." My opinion: It is nothing at all like the actual history, but goes with stereotype and gossip. But it looks great visually

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 11:07 PM | Add Comment

McCain mocks Obama's view of al-Qaida in Iraq, and Obama states that Republican policies brought the terrorist group there

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Rare works by Charles Dickens, including a page from the original manuscript of "Pickwick Papers" and an illustration of the "Oliver Twist" character Bill Sikes, are going on the auction block

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia. Topless PETA demonstration against running of the bulls

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 10:03 PM | Add Comment

Abuse reports at British children's home, Haut de la Garenne, where a child's skull has been dug up and where police fear they will discover the bones of more young victims

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Headache common in people with GI trouble

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Clinton links her fate to economy

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2008 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 11:05 PM | Add Comment

Photography: Martin Margiela, Belgian designer. Fall design

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 9:41 PM | Add Comment

"Diablo Cody (screenwriter of the movie Juno) pays the price of fame, too: The very things that make her star unique are suddenly being panned and scrutinized"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 9:35 PM | Add Comment

Ohio debate for Clinton and Obama: issues like Louis Farrakhan's endorsement, photo of Obama in a turban, tax returns, NAFTA, Iraq, denouncement versus rejection of hate speech

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Fact Check: Clinton, Obama and NAFTA

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 7:42 PM | Add Comment

IRS investigates Obama's denomination over a speech; IRS says "reasonable belief exists that the circumstances surrounding the speech violated restrictions on political activity for tax-exempt organizations"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 7:38 PM | Add Comment

Debate in Ohio: Clinton and Obama blame each other for spreading false information about their respective health care plans. "Tone pointed, yet polite"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 7:00 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

From Luciole friend Diana Bonebrake: please help musician Drac Conley, who has Stage 3 prostate cancer

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 10:31 AM | Add Comment

One of my favorites: A pine is standing lonely, by Heinrich Heine

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 8:18 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Baby giraffe Niek stands with his mother Oranya in Animal Park Artis in Amsterdam

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Wholesale prices jump in January, more than double what economists were expecting: for food, energy, health care, and more

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 6:16 AM | Add Comment

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a global campaign to intensify efforts to end violence against women

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 4:09 AM | Add Comment

Proposal would require Mexican brides and grooms who get cold feet before wedding to pay their significant other a sum

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 3:10 AM | Add Comment

Teens accused of beating disabled 18-year-old woman with recent brain surgery in Ohio. Incredibly awful and sad. They should be tried as adults.

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Baby the Greatest in flight, like Seabiscuit

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Ancient Egyptian poetry and love songs

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 1:32 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

3rd manmade Grand Canyon flood planned

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 1:28 AM | Add Comment

Yummy water: Los Angeles wins taste test

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Democrats facing rejection of proposal to cut off money for Iraq war deliberate next step in trying to rebuild anti-war momentum

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 12:54 AM | Add Comment

I like Best Original Song Oscar co-winner Marketa Irglova's speech

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 10:18 PM | Add Comment

The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon to investigate allegations that a two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Photography: Memoirs of... by Ena La Freniere. La Luciole Magazine

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 6:55 PM | Add Comment

Childhood friend Ernst Michaelis comes forward with picture of Peter Schiff, Anne Frank's 'one true love.' Peter also died at Auschwitz

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 6:30 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Clinton-Obama battle takes toxic new turn, hurling barbs a day before the Ohio debate

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 6:16 PM | Add Comment

McCain says he could lose over war issue, then retracts his words

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Archeologists find 5,500-year-old plaza in Peru

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 4:03 PM | Add Comment

A photograph circulating on the Internet of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama dressed in traditional local garments during a visit to Kenya in 2006 is causing a dustup in the presidential campaign over what constitutes a smear

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 3:54 PM | Add Comment

International Atomic Energy Agency (of the U.N.) presented documents Monday that diplomats say indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003. Iran calls the documents "forgeries." U.S. info says Iran's nuclear work stopped in 2003

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 3:46 PM | Add Comment

German police dogs to wear shoes: German and Belgian shepherds at high risk of paw injury in Dusseldorf due to broken beer bottles on the cobblestone streets

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 3:41 PM | Add Comment

Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway; cutting out milk and gluten make hyperactive disorders like ADHD disappear for kids in research group

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Berlin Zoo. Crocus flowers

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 1:17 PM | Add Comment

McCain wins 20 delegates in Puerto Rico, 38 in total in U.S. territories

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 1:09 PM | Add Comment

Miami MetroZoo holds pet amnesty day, where more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals at event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 10:35 AM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia began interrogating 57 men Saturday who were arrested after allegedly flirting with women, dancing to pop music, and wearing improper clothing

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 10:31 AM | Add Comment

The Ulysses solar probe, after 17 years of studying the sun and solar system, is about to die by freezing to death

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Quote to think on... Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 8:27 AM | Add Comment

A closer look at the evil that lurks inside hearts of this year's Oscar nominees: "Sometimes it crawls up from the depths of humanity, and sometimes it looks like us."

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 8:22 AM | Add Comment

Nubs the dog, saved by Marine Maj. Brian Dennis, coming to California. Wonderful to read...

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Ralph Nader will run because "the top White House contenders as too close to big business" and pledges to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 7:42 AM | Add Comment

Ralph Nader announces another presidential bid, as a third-party candidate

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Health Tip: Zinc in Your Diet

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 2:47 AM | Add Comment

John McCain suggests he hopes retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro will die soon, and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 2:43 AM | Add Comment

A New York man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than a mile on a busy road

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Thousands mourn slain college student Brianna Denison, killed in Reno; fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church showed up to picket funeral with signs that said "God Hates Reno" and "God Sent the Killer"

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2008 2:29 AM | Add Comment

Scientists clamor to study Brad Williams, a man who can recall details about any date you name. "Doctors are now studying him... hoping to achieve a deeper understanding of memory"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 11:08 PM | Add Comment

Girl, 16, has second set of triplets, sparking outrage in Roman Catholic Argentina... with the media saying "rather than financial help, she should have received better sex education and birth control"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Clinton, Obama spar over Obama mailings: Clinton angrily accused her Democratic rival Saturday of deliberately misrepresenting her positions on NAFTA and health care in mass mailings to voters, adding, "Shame on you, Barack Obama."

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Obama may face grilling on patriotism: his wife says she's "really proud of her country for the first time in her adult life." Radio host Mark Williams, on Fox, says Obama has come "out of the closet as the domestic insurgent he is"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 9:21 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Polar bear breaks ice in Bronx Zoo's outdoor pool

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 8:34 AM | Add Comment

Ohio, Texas uphill climbs for Clinton

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 8:29 AM | Add Comment

McCain trains sights on November, Obama

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 8:27 AM | Add Comment

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), and "The Lake"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 12:37 AM | Add Comment

Photography: New York City. Pedestrian with dog in snow in Carl Schurz Park, near Gracie Mansion

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 12:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Bronx Zoo. Snow leopard in fresh snow at the Himalayan Highlands Habitat in New York City

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2008 12:29 AM | Add Comment

Dallas police officer escorting Clinton dies in crash; Hillary cancels appearance in Fort Worth to visit officer Tirado's family at Methodist Medical Center

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 8:48 PM | Add Comment

Photography: Port Washington, New York. Cardinal in snow

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 8:46 PM | Add Comment

AP survey: Superdelegates jump to Obama. "Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters — straight to Barack Obama"

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 8:41 PM | Add Comment

Kosovo Serb protesters attack UN police

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 8:38 PM | Add Comment

Muqtada al-Sadr extends Iraqi cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi Army by another six months

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 3:22 AM | Add Comment

German researchers sent cichlid fish on a 10-minute rocket ride from a launch pad in northern Sweden, in a motion sickness study

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 12:55 AM | Add Comment

Meatloaf the cat heads home to Florida after trek to Arizona in a storage container

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 12:38 AM | Add Comment

Storming of embassy in Serbia sparks U.S. outrage

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list; an estimated 1,500 wolves now roam Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 11:51 PM | Add Comment

Who won the Democratic debate? "Both candidates were plainly popular with the debate audience." A list of highlights from Texas

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 8:07 PM | Add Comment

John McCain seeks to minimize damage to his man-of-character image by vigorously denying and denouncing a newspaper report suggesting an improper relationship with a female lobbyist.

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Texas debate. Clinton: Obama 'change you can Xerox'

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 6:39 PM | Add Comment

Clinton quote from the debate tonight

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 6:34 PM | Add Comment

ON DEADLINE: Obama Has Much Yet to Prove; Rezko, Record, Temperament, Experience. by Ron Fournier

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 6:32 PM | Add Comment

Next plague likeliest to emerge from poor tropical countries: "We are crowding wildlife into ever-smaller areas, and human population is increasing," leading to crossover diseases, from animal to human. Read the list of history, like SARS, Ebola, etc.

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Obama, Clinton debate tonight in Texas

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:58 AM | Add Comment

Russian nationalist candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky attacks his opponent during a televised debate

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:31 AM | Add Comment
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