Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for February 2008

McCain loan raises FEC questions

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Lunar eclipse images. Al-Aqsa mosque and Notre Dame Cathedral; Jerusalem

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:15 AM | Add Comment

Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced Thursday

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 7:11 AM | Add Comment

Come check out the February Issue of La Luciole Magazine, brought to you by Luciole Press (of which this blog is a part)

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 2:56 AM | Add Comment

Florida's public school science standards for the first time will use the word "evolution"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 2:54 AM | Add Comment

Photography: Tyler, Texas; waxing crescent moon. Second picture, full moon

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Analysis: "Clinton's on the ropes; behind in money, delegates, momentum. She's selling experience when everyone seems to want change; all the cheering for the man who could be the first black president is drowning out any excitement for the first female"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:27 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

McCain tangles with Obama over campaign money: Obama pledged in February last year to accept public financing and its accompanying spending limit of an estimated $85 million in the general election race if he wins the nomination, as did McCain

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

NY Times reports on McCain link with lobbyist; McCain campaign said the paper had engaged in a "hit and run smear campaign"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:16 AM | Add Comment

Woman whose abuse was filmed sues ABC; footage shows Kyle Nelson, then 15, being held down, berated and punched by stepfather. Viewers sent thousands of emails asking why ABC News did not stop abuse

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Michael Moore: Bring Fidel Castro to the Oscars

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Alexis Goggins: soft-spoken 7-year-old is a hero after she threw herself across her mother just as a gunman was about to shoot the woman in an SUV

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Photos: Nuremberg Zoo. Polar bear family; parents Felix and Vera, and cub Flocke

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 10:27 AM | Add Comment

Financial Times article: America's economy risks the mother of all meltdowns

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 10:18 AM | Add Comment

British pound down against dollar; the overall economy of England is predicted to slow rapidly

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 10:12 AM | Add Comment

Pakistan president Musharraf won't step down: "The people on Monday didn't vote to elect a new president," he said. "In fact, they participated in the elections to elect the new parliament."

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 10:07 AM | Add Comment

Clinton clings on after latest Obama rout; Huckabee says "That smug, elitist, arrogant attitude toward many of us who are in this race is going to backfire on a lot of Republicans."

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Former Army paratrooper will stand trial for raping 3-month-old girl near Detroit. She has brain damage and 17 broken bones

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 9:52 AM | Add Comment

The director and producers of a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have received multiple death threats from right-wing groups. Japan's Dragon Films is leaving Tokyo offices

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:24 AM | Add Comment

Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:20 AM | Add Comment

The Iraqi Interior Ministry ordered police on Tuesday to begin rounding up beggars, homeless and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad and other cities to prevent insurgents from using them as suicide bombers

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

The World Health Organization warns that the "tobacco epidemic" could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Smoking just one cigarette can cause tobacco addiction in some people, according to a New Zealand study published on Wednesday

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Photography: London. Rare 101.27 carat diamond, the largest colorless diamond to appear at auction in nearly 20 years

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed her case Tuesday that Illinois senator Barack Obama offers little more than talk

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2008 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. apologized to a Muslim woman who said she was mocked because of her face veil. Cashier said, "Please don't stick me up."

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Asians have become a critical swing voter bloc in the US presidential election race

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 11:51 PM | Add Comment

A new laser analyzer might be able to help doctors detect cancer, asthma or other diseases by sampling a patient's breath

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Antartica; grenadier fish swim over glass sponges. From the Australian Antarctic Division

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Cubans hope Raul Castro brings reform

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:43 PM | Add Comment

Barack Obama won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, his ninth straight triumph

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Early Wisconsin primary news: Obama leading in polls, McCain wins primary

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:17 PM | Add Comment

US Humane Society to honor boy who died saving pets

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 6:13 PM | Add Comment

Ancient "devil frog" may have eaten baby dinosaurs: Beelzebufo ampinga, came from Beelzebub, the Greek for devil, and bufo -- Latin for toad. Ampinga means "shield." Lived 65 to 70 million years ago in Madagascar

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 3:05 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Pakistan's ruling party concedes defeat Tuesday after opposition parties routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 2:58 AM | Add Comment

Cattle industry calls cow abuse incident isolated, Humane Society skeptical of reply after video results in huge beef recall. The rules for treatment of animals were passed in 1958

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 2:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: England. A malamute's breath is steaming around him before a sled-dog race

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 2:45 AM | Add Comment

Do you read Baby the Greatest's advice column at La Luciole Magazine?

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

A new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start "hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail." List of some hospital errors included...

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Amidst consternation and debates about freedom of speech, schools such as Pepperdine vote to ban gossip site JuicyCampus.com, which became very popular and "so poisonous"

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 12:54 AM | Add Comment

From Cuba: Fidel Castro retires; says on Tuesday that he will not seek a new presidential term when the National Assembly meets on February 24.

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 12:38 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photography. Pig born with heart patterns on his fur

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 1:45 PM | Add Comment

Photography: Alaska. Two bald eagles vie for a perch in Ketchikan

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Cat flees fire, ends up 240 miles away

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 1:02 PM | Add Comment

Uninsured Americans and those in a government health program for the poor are far more likely to have advanced diseases when diagnosed with cancer than those with private coverage

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:56 PM | Add Comment

The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to many vacant houses, which are being occupied by homeless "bandos" (someone who lives in abandoned houses)

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that he doesn't think it's a big deal that he borrowed lines from his friend for his speech without crediting him

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:43 PM | Add Comment

A Very Silent Night, a song audible only to dogs, has topped New Zealand record charts

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:38 PM | Add Comment

World Vision charity hands out caps and jerseys with illustrations showing the New England Patriots as winners of Superbowl to poor Nicaraguan children

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 2:20 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court weighs 5 age bias cases, including older workers who recieve lower health benefits than other workers, and employees who become disabled but are barred from benefits

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 2:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region. Newborn stars

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Russia tries to block Kosovo's independence during a closed-door emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, saying it is deeply concerned about the safety of Serbs living in the territory

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Unusual transcript purportedly about President John F. Kennedy's assassination has been discovered in an old safe at the Dallas County district attorney's office; includes Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby plotting to kill Kennedy

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

Saeed Khouri, a member of a wealthy Abu Dhabi family in the United Arab Emirates, pays a record $14 million for a license plate with the number "1" on it

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 12:16 AM | Add Comment

Flooded Australian city Mackay warned of crocodiles, told not to wade in water or dangle arms and legs from boats

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:29 PM | Add Comment

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev: gathered quotes and biographies

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:16 PM | Add Comment

Canada extradites Nazi to Italy: Michael Seifert, an 83-year-old former SS prison guard, was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:13 PM | Add Comment

"Kosovo looked forward on Monday to recognition by the Western powers who went to war to save its Albanian majority, but Russia served notice the new state will never be forced on its Serb allies in the territory."

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Crested Butte, Colorade. Another picture of the amazing snow totals

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:01 PM | Add Comment

Nancy Reagan hospitalized after falling: Doctors determined she did not break a hip as feared

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 6:54 PM | Add Comment

HDTV DOA: A humor column about one man's triumph and desperation

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 12:13 AM | Add Comment

The Netherlands: Johannes Heesters, a 104-year-old singer who performed for Adolf Hitler, takes stage amidst fierce protest. Many of Heesters' critics focus on a visit his theater company made to Dachau in 1941

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 12:01 AM | Add Comment

Mystery deaths halt Royal Bengal tiger tracking plan in Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 11:22 PM | Add Comment

"As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago."

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 11:09 PM | Add Comment

"Tiny Kosovo — poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western — braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 12:11 PM | Add Comment

Researchers have developed what they believe is the first blood test that accurately detects ovarian cancer at an early stage

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 9:58 AM | Add Comment

Iran has urged the Netherlands to prevent the screening of a film by right-wing populist lawmaker Geert Wilders, in which he lays out his view of the Koran

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 9:54 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Kabul, Afghanistan. Woman in 'red scarf as a wink to the day of love'

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Kiev, Ukraine. Bridge of Lovers, in the snow

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 9:04 AM | Add Comment

Chelsea Clinton steps on political stage, outlines Hillary Rodham Clinton's concern about Darfur and women's rights; reveals her mother wants grandkids and her father builds their schedule around "Grey's Anatomy."

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Germany's Wallraf-Richartz Museum(WRM) learns their Claude Monet painting titled "The Seine at Port Villez" is a fake

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 4:08 AM | Add Comment

President Bush on tour of Africa; stops in Benin, one of Africa's most-stable democracies. The nation has many political parties, a strong civil society and press freedoms, yet is one of world's poorest countries

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 4:03 AM | Add Comment

French President Sarkozy defends his education plan for French schoolchildren to "adopt" Jewish child victims of the Holocaust, saying France has to raise children "with open eyes".

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2008 3:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Crested Butte, Colorado. Incredible snowfall totals, super high banks

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 5:57 PM | Add Comment

Violinist David Garrett falls down a flight of stairs with his $1 million Guadagnini violin -- he is ok, the violin (built in 1772) is not

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: India. Parrots cuddle in zoo in Chandigarh

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Gaza. Palestinian farmers burn flowers they were unable to ship to Europe due to Israeli restrictions

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 4:41 AM | Add Comment

Japanese men shout the oft-unsaid: 'I love you' in "Shout Your Love From the Middle of a Cabbage Patch" Day.

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 12:46 AM | Add Comment

After caricature of Prophet Mohammed reprinted in Denmark, Copenhagen police arrest six, in fifth night of riots. Chief Inspector Olesen says: "I think it's because they're bored."

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2008 12:40 AM | Add Comment

Orlando Gallery in Tarzana will have a show with Michael Cano and Diana Bonebrake in July!

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Newsweek article: experts argue that even the most politically correct among us may harbor unconscious prejudices against ethnic groups, women, gays and others

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 10:40 PM | Add Comment

Mariam Amash, applying for a new Israeli identity card, announces she is 120 years old and drinks a glass of olive oil a day

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Royal Bengal Tigers in India and Pakistan (New Delhi and Karachi)

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:24 PM | Add Comment

U.N. admonishes Saudis: "Saudi Arabia must create laws to protect women from violence." Yakin Erturk, the U.N.'s human rights expert on violence against women, featured in article

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Pepper can treat disfiguring skin condition vitiligo, which destroys the melanin which gives skin its color

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Jane Fonda appears with Eve Ensler on the "Today" show, causes slight uproar with use of "slang term"

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:10 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Saudi Arabia. Flamingo cuddles

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:08 PM | Add Comment

Ocean currents, including Gulf Stream, can be "a new, plentiful and uninterrupted source of clean energy" producing energy 24/7

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:05 PM | Add Comment

9 days after Super Tuesday vote, New Mexico caucus declares Hillary Clinton the winner

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Rape is weapon in Kenyan violence:victims as young as 2 years of age (you read that right, a toddler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Scotland: Article on the rare white stag in the Highlands

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Firefighters from the South Florida city of Weston spent five hours being outwitted by escaped kitten; he was finally rescued

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 10:38 PM | Add Comment

Probe into missing UK girl, Madeleine McCann, near end; "Portuguese police admit they had been hasty in making the parents of missing toddler Madeleine official suspects in the case"

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 10:55 AM | Add Comment

Bill Clinton campaign chief, David Wilhelm, backs Obama

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 10:53 AM | Add Comment

The Science of Fairy Tales: Scientific evidence of how magical moments in fantasies such as Rapunzel, The Little Mermaid, and 1,001 Arabian Nights could have happened

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Dog paintings, statues, fancy collars and other items fetched a total of $700,000 at auction by Bonhams, a company founded in London in 1793

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 5:48 AM | Add Comment

Now that's the Pioneer Spirit: Colorado woman, locked out of home, uses ax to get back in. And she turns 90 this weekend!

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2008 5:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Scottish Highlands. Rare White Stag

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2008 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Italian scientists say they have proved Napoleon was not poisoned by his British jailors

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2008 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Writers vote to end 3-month strike: 3,492 voted yes, with only 283 voting to stay off the job. Writers did not vote on whether to formally accept the tentative deal

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2008 9:03 PM | Add Comment

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