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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for March 2008

Ancient artifacts seized near Rome from country estate; owner had stolen items from Emperor Trajan's villa

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2008 3:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Fiordland penguin Milford goes for a stroll out of her enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 11:42 PM | Add Comment

U.S. dollar's value drops so dramatically that Amsterdam currency outlets turn tourists away

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 11:35 PM | Add Comment

Director Anthony Minghella dies at 54 from surgical complications

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 4:56 PM | Add Comment

Dalai Lama offers to resign as leader of Tibetan exiles if unrest worsens; exiles say 19 more dead in China

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 4:46 PM | Add Comment

Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90; most known for "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 4:43 PM | Add Comment

NASA satellite data shows the thickest, oldest and toughest sea ice around the North Pole is melting

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 4:39 PM | Add Comment

German Swan Petra has met real-life love; can part ways with her former love, a swan-shaped boat

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2008 4:35 PM | Add Comment

ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert dies on Mallorca after hitting head against glass door, breaking it and cutting his neck

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2008 3:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Moscow parade for St. Patrick's Day. Russian policeman plays trombone, crosses eyes

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2008 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! Article: NYC parade impresses even the Irish

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2008 1:34 PM | Add Comment

Obama walks arrogance line... "both Obama and his wife, Michelle, ooze a sense of entitlement," by Ron Fournier

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2008 1:22 PM | Add Comment

Gorillas on Weight Watchers? Zoo animals must battle the bulge too

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2008 1:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Newborn Zebra with loving mother Yoko, at zoo in Lima, Peru

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Intensive four-week "boot camps" treat chronic pain

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Baby Sumatran Tigers at the San Francisco Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 4:59 PM | Add Comment

Clinton lashes Obama's 'assault' as McCain visits Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Katrina aftermath erodes bayou culture in Louisiana

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 11:33 AM | Add Comment

Tibet protests spread to other provinces; The Dalai Lama warns Tibet faces "cultural genocide" and appealed to the world for help.

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 11:23 AM | Add Comment

Survivors reflect 40 years after My Lai, a massacre of women, children, and elderly in Vietnam by American forces

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 11:18 AM | Add Comment

German pilot Horst Rippert fears he killed writer Antoine Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince"

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 11:14 AM | Add Comment

An 83-year-old New Mexico great-grandmother thwarted a would-be purse snatcher with a gas nozzle and an iron grip

Posted by kluciole at 3/16/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Journalist Todd Pitman's essay about friend and fellow journalist Dmitry Chebotayev's death in Iraq, and how he can never view statistics and death tolls so casually again

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

Chinese security forces swarm Tibet in armored carriers; Mount Everest has been closed to climbers, a strict curfew is in place. 10 civilians burned to death

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2008 1:13 PM | Add Comment

Rare painting of Mozart authenticated; could be the most important portrait of the renowned composer ever to come to light

Posted by kluciole at 3/15/2008 1:10 PM | Add Comment

Hilarious Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: "Dear Madame President"

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 9:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A peacock in sunshine. Spring River Park Zoo in Roswell, New Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 8:43 PM | Add Comment

Lawyer for call girl in Spitzer case, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, lashes out at media. Is taking photos from MySpace without consent a "violation of federal copyright laws"?

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 8:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Irish Independent Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase, Cheltenham Festival. Horse: Kruguyrova

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Man forces daughter to kill pet cat; son had tried to stage death and hide cat after his father tried to make him kill the 8-month old "Boots"

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: The "Flying Saucer" house on Signal Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee is for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Democratic rivals Clinton and Obama agree to play nicer

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Global warming is impacting the Rocky Mountains; climate change means less wildflowers, which means less animals who depend on them

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 11:43 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand joins other countries in banning 'party pills' with benzylpiperazine, which have caused users to fall into comas

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 11:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Jordan Zoo. Dina the Tigress

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 1:09 AM | Add Comment

Study says Dementia diagnosis may relieve patients

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 1:06 AM | Add Comment

Software "hiccup" undermines spacecraft trip past Saturn moon Enceladus

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo: France. A high wave hits the entrance of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer during massive storm

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 12:58 AM | Add Comment

Computer pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum dies; became a critic about artificial intelligence and its philosophical implications

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 12:53 AM | Add Comment

Russian investor gets 13 yrs in Cambodia for sexual abuse; country beginning to take sex offenses more seriously

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 12:47 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Jakarta's Ragunan Zoo. Voni, a 12-year-old orangutan, with her 3-month-old baby

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2008 12:38 AM | Add Comment

`Sin taxes' hit Britons: 'packet of cigarettes will now be $11.44'

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2008 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Is anything you put on MySpace public property? Pictures of woman in Spitzer case splashed about with Reuters taking credit

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2008 1:29 PM | Add Comment

6 "Founding Mothers" of the Americas: mitochondrial DNA shows nearly all Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace ancestry to six women

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2008 1:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A dog stands on a flower pot in the flooded village of Flushing, Cornwall

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Man finally calls police after his girlfriend spends two years seated on toilet; charges may be filed

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:35 PM | Add Comment

World tiger population shrinking fast, WWF warns

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:31 PM | Add Comment

Russia slams U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights as biased

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:22 PM | Add Comment

Dolphin named Moko guides stranded whales to sea in New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Hong Kong shuts schools in flu outbreak; orders students to stay home for two weeks

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Wave engulfs lighthouse during massive storm in England

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Kate Winslet's new Holocaust drama will raise some interesting questions about War Crimes

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Aurora Borealis spins in a circle above the Talkeetna Range near Palmer, Alaska

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:42 AM | Add Comment

Women ponder why NY Governor Spitzer's wife, Silda, stood by him

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:37 AM | Add Comment

Mom Treffly Coyne faces trial for leaving her child in car for a few minutes to donate money to Salvation Army. Debate rages

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:33 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Woman tries to bring skeleton on plane

Posted by kluciole at 3/12/2008 9:31 AM | Add Comment

SWEET RELIEF MUSICIAN'S FUND

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Huh? What is he thinking? "Bush says US vote won't shape Iraq withdrawal... quote: 'politics of 2008 is not going to enter into my calculation'"

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Obama-Clinton Race Creates Security Concerns for Secret Service

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Dennis Gansel, whose film "Die Welle" (The Wave) opens on Thursday, said the horrors of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich haven't made modern-day Germans more immune to the lure of charismatic leaders or persuasive group dynamics than any other nationality

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 9:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: train leaves Tibetan capitol of Lhasa, on its way to Beijing

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 9:03 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Snow in Ohio. A fox squirrel nabs birdseed, and boy sleds over hill

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 8:59 AM | Add Comment

Stocks rise on Fed lifeline to Wall Street; Federal Reserve and other banks to pump $200 billion into financial markets

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2008 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Hamburg. Gina, a twelve-year-old German Shepherd, carries the leash of another dog, 'walking' her

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 7:29 PM | Add Comment

British World War Two ship found in Norwegian fjord

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 7:23 PM | Add Comment

Firefighter saves dog by performing CPR

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida. Saddam turned down a request for help from bin Laden in 1995

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Gulf War illness linked to chemical exposure

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Philadelphia mayor sticking with Clinton despite Obama's lead among city's voters

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Obama: Don't assume I'll take VP slot

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 12:08 PM | Add Comment

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer linked to prostitution ring; creator of state's "Public Integrity Commission" apologizes.

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Cantabria, Spain. Child dressed as a Zamarron; festival to welcome spring

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Real Death Star Could Strike Earth

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 9:46 AM | Add Comment

Dalai Lama lashes out at Chinese 'repression' in Tibet

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 9:42 AM | Add Comment

Grave of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly may have been found

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2008 9:37 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Nicaraguans dress dogs in costumes for mass, part of San Lazaro celebrations

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 10:59 PM | Add Comment

Extremely courageous Saudi woman Wajiha Huwaidar defies driving ban to mark International Women's Day, posts clip on YouTube

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 10:54 PM | Add Comment

William Wordsworth. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 3:39 PM | Add Comment

Tsunami that devastated the ancient world could happen again; destroyed Alexandria, Egypt, and all of the Mediterranean plus some Adriatic areas

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Studies: Iraq costs US $12 Billion per month

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:49 PM | Add Comment

19-year-old medic Monica Lin Brown earns Silver Star in Afghanistan, saving fellow soldiers after roadside bomb. Only the second female soldier since WWII to be awarded the medal

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 12:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Great Blue Heron. Edom, Texas.

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 12:16 PM | Add Comment

Stolen August Strindberg painting found

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 12:12 PM | Add Comment

Featured artist for March: Exene Cervenka, interviewed by Diana Bonebrake

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:47 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Can women find unique ways out of war? Afghani Sakena Yacoobi envisions the transformation of society

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Buhl, Idaho; a pair of calves peek out from pens. Cattle rustling is still a problem (stealing cows)

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:34 AM | Add Comment

UN sees more people going hungry in Philippines as rice prices soar

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:31 AM | Add Comment

10 legendary trips you can still take, from the Silk Road to the Orient Express

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2008 2:27 AM | Add Comment

Virginia passes law requiring adults who French kiss kids to register as sex offenders, pay fine, go to jail (why is this not a law everywhere?)

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 7:12 PM | Add Comment

On Thai border, a rare refuge for Burmese children. Called Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss), it saves the lives and hopes of many

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 7:06 PM | Add Comment

In stark contrast to American economy woes, Canada's economy added five times more jobs than expected in February

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 9:23 AM | Add Comment

South Koreans rescued from sexual slavery in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 9:17 AM | Add Comment

Snatched New Zealand body returned; highlights disputes over burials of intermarried European New Zealanders and indigenous Maori

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Clinton, Obama to face off in Wyoming

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 9:06 AM | Add Comment

San Francisco Zoo welcomes tiger cub

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 9:04 AM | Add Comment

Kitten survives trip in shipping crate, from Singapore to Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2008 8:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Polar bear in mid-air jump, St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2008 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unveil what they found in Rome digs, including medieval kitchens still stocked with pots and pans

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2008 6:35 PM | Add Comment

Avant-garde museum building for Roanoke, Virginia. Designed by Randall Stout, a protege of Frank Gehry

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2008 6:31 PM | Add Comment

Nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, may have Earth's twin planet

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2008 6:23 PM | Add Comment
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