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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for April 2008

Obama's Record Has Republicans Dusting Off `Liberal' Attacks

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 4:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Hen Ruby fosters Ivy, a chick rescued from a factory farm. International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4, celebrates the devotion of hens to their chicks

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 4:25 PM | Add Comment

DNA confirms IDs of Czar Nicholas II of Russia's children, ending mystery: it is Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 4:22 PM | Add Comment

From Politico.com: GOP gives Clinton the silent treatment

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 4:19 PM | Add Comment

London's Old Bailey criminal court puts archive online: one case was John Alberson, who was 13 years old when he was sentenced to death in 1835 for stealing clothes

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 12:52 AM | Add Comment

Report shows Australian Aborigines' health care is 'shameful'

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Meg Wolitzer, author of "The Ten-Year Nap," writes about "mommy wars" and poses the question "Women are told they can have it all but is it realistic?"

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 12:40 AM | Add Comment

Photo: tornado damage in Suffolk, Virginia

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2008 5:36 PM | Add Comment

The `Cat Lady of Baghdad' battles on, saving strays of Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2008 5:31 PM | Add Comment

Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments: "the insensitivity and the outrageousness of the statements shocked me and surprised me."

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2008 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Medicare "drifting towards disaster"

Posted by kluciole at 4/29/2008 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A robin clings to a branch during a spring snow storm snow on a farm south of Rothsay, Minn.

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2008 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Chocolate may reduce pregnancy complication risk

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2008 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A Westhighland Terrier dog named 'Molly' tries to jump over a bar during a dog show in Dortmund, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2008 6:49 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Jeremiah Wright Goes to War

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2008 6:45 PM | Add Comment

Iran takes new shot at Barbie, calling US doll 'destructive'

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2008 6:43 PM | Add Comment

Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery of young Swedish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews bound for Auschwitz

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2008 3:29 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds flee wildfire burning in foothills near Los Angeles

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2008 3:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an albino kangaroo named Milka clings to his mother at a zoo in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2008 12:36 AM | Add Comment

Smithsonian to open massive new 'Ocean Hall' in September

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2008 3:33 PM | Add Comment

Turkish PM visits Syria in push for Israel peace deal

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2008 3:29 PM | Add Comment

Reno urged to be prepared as swarm of earthquakes continue, increasing in magnitude

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2008 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Jane Austen: A serial flirt with a hangover in new British TV drama "Miss Austen Regrets"

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Clinton lobbies superdelegates after Pennsylvania win

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2008 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Hungarian Puli sheep dog, Fee, looks like a giant mop as he jumps over a hurdle for dog show in Dortmund

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2008 11:45 PM | Add Comment

ON DEADLINE by Sonya Ross: Bill Clinton is no brother

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2008 11:41 PM | Add Comment

Syria hands over 700 looted artifacts to Iraqi authorities

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2008 1:29 AM | Add Comment

With violence down, Iraqis flock to revitalized Baghdad Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2008 1:25 AM | Add Comment

Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things. Pierre the Penguin is 25 years old, and had been balding and unable to keep warm in the water

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2008 7:04 PM | Add Comment

6 ingredients for a green, clean home

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2008 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot' for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2008 6:55 PM | Add Comment

Sunday at Safari Sam's ~ Brunch: Bonebrake Syncopators! Free, starts at noon

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2008 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Thousands flock to exhumed body of saint Padre Pio, on display 40 years after his death

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2008 8:12 AM | Add Comment

Photos: A Christmas card written by Anne Frank in 1937 has been found in the antique store De Regenboog in Naarden, Netherlands. Addressed to Samme Ledermann, one of her best friends

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

From another Luciole friend: GRAYWOLF ON THE RADIO. Graywolf runs Graywolf Productions with Alfred Panther, and both are curators of the Chumash Indian Museum

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 5:52 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend and contributor Ellyn Maybe: A performance at Beyond Baroque ~ "A Poet's Seder: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets" on April 26th

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 5:27 PM | Add Comment

The most widely known and used quote from George Sand

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 6:34 AM | Add Comment

Biodiversity loss will lead to sick world: Experts warn "the world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species"

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Photos: the Caucasus Mountains, including the Malka River and Lake Donguzorunkel

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 2:40 AM | Add Comment

Why Obama can't close deal ~ by Ron Fournier

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 2:33 AM | Add Comment

Denmark evacuates embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan due to threats; Danish newspapers republished cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in February

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend and contributor, Aine MacAodha: her first published collection of poems, "Where The Three Rivers Meet," is available for purchase

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 12:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A peacock is pictured in Lazienki park in Warsaw

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 12:27 AM | Add Comment

French President Sarkozy calls the late French Martinican poet and politician Aime Cesaire a 'great man' and credited Cesaire — an early proponent of black pride who died last Thursday at the age of 94 — with waking up French consciousness

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Britain seeks to abolish male royal succession law

Posted by kluciole at 4/23/2008 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Clinton defeats Obama in Pennsylvania primary

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2008 6:01 PM | Add Comment

Early Pennsylvania exit poll results

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2008 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Democrats Clinton, Obama collide in Pennsylvania primary where "nearly one in 10 changed their party registration in recent months to be able to cast ballots in a primary open only to Democrats"

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2008 1:52 PM | Add Comment

Happy Earth Day! Photo: The Rhine Falls near Neuhausen, Switzerland, illuminated with blue lights by Swiss artist Charles Keller

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 11:30 PM | Add Comment

4 poems from Mary Oliver

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Pakistan resumes forcing Afghan refugees to return home; they have lived in the camps for decades, and many were born and raised in Pakistan

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Polygamist clothing has roots in 19th century and 1950s (and has people asking if we might see trends sparked: "Sounds like a good Halloween costume ... or Marc Jacobs Spring '09.")

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 5:11 PM | Add Comment

More convicted felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines: "including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions"

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 5:08 PM | Add Comment

In honor of Earth Day, April 22nd: Come see Luciole friend and contributor Geraldine Green's poems

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 1:07 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

With clock ticking, Rushdie makes careful choices; "My general plan at the moment is to simplify my life"

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array in New Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2008 12:31 PM | Add Comment

Clinton, Obama say the other is being negative. Article from Pennsylvania

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2008 12:27 PM | Add Comment

Green funerals make for eco-exits

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2008 12:24 PM | Add Comment

French resistance hero Germaine Tillion dies at 100: "She was someone who was able to resist evil without ever taking herself for an incarnation of good"

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2008 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Smoke cloud engulfs Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, for 5th day from field burning by ranchers; visibility 500 yards

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2008 5:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A young Ring-tailed Lemur mid-jump at Rapperswil zoo, in Rapperswil, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2008 1:07 AM | Add Comment

This blog tries to present many different sides, and I do not always agree with the articles...

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2008 12:45 AM | Add Comment

Nevada dog finds its way home after a week, 77 miles and two mountain ranges

Posted by kluciole at 4/19/2008 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Ethereal dance : A woman from Canadian circus group Cirque du Soleil performs "Delirium"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2008 12:42 AM | Add Comment

Come see Luciole friend and contributor Melanie Dorsey's article about subterranean art in the subways of NYC: "Art in Transit"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2008 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Superdelegates feel pressured: "Obama superdelegates find their 'sisterhood' questioned, just as some black Democrats have been challenged for their endorsement of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Clinton is Ms. Fix-It, Obama a media critic on 'Colbert'

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2008 12:14 AM | Add Comment

From Michelle Shining Elk, a benefit for Dan Nanamkin: REZ BOIZ BENEFIT FOR "DANIMAL" TONIGHT & TOMORROW IN WA!

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Gibson, Stephanopoulos criticized for work on debate

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Obama wants voters to remember Clinton's past: "I recall when, back in 1992, when she made a statement about how, what do you expect, should I be at home baking cookies? And people attacked her for being elitist and this and that."

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 12:18 PM | Add Comment

MIT prof Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies at 90

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 2:28 AM | Add Comment

Fed up with politics, Italian man eats voting ballot

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 1:24 AM | Add Comment

Yemeni court terminates 8-year-old girl's marriage

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Global auction house Sotheby's failed to auction off a 72.22-carat, "D" flawless white diamond at its Asian sales last week in a possible sign of weakness in the global diamond trade

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 1:11 AM | Add Comment

French aghast at new English incursion to their language, with many insisting Sebastien Tellier should not represent France in Eurovision with a song in English

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2008 12:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A red squirrel in Gateshead, northeastern England

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Murtha says McCain too old to be president

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: unidentified artwork, showing a crashed car in the pavement, is pictured on display at Berlin's 'Potsdamer Platz' square

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Spain absorbing shock over new, pregnant defense minister "reviewing trim, crisply uniformed soldiers, with her baby bump on display."

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Highlights from the Pennsylvania debate. Article: "Clinton emphatically says Obama can win White House."

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 10:07 PM | Add Comment

Reopening race debate, BET founder Bob Johnson says Obama owes his candidacy to his race, saying Obama is "not the Second Coming, in my opinion, of John F. Kennedy, FDR or the world's greatest leaders."

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 9:58 PM | Add Comment

From Michelle Shining Elk: DAN NANAMKIN EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE OUTREACH!

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 3:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: 'Tax,' a Great Horned Owl from the Spring River Zoo at the Yucca Center in Roswell, New Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Kidnapper sends letter of apology to candidate's family; regrets role in abduction of French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 12:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Acrobats of Spain and Argentina called "Puja! Theatre of height" perform during the first day of International Festival of Theatre and Stage Arts in Seville

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 12:39 AM | Add Comment

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: submits paper as part of a regional science competition

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2008 12:34 AM | Add Comment

Last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men" dies; Ollie Johnston, last of Walt Disney's original team of animators, has died at the age of 95

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Shock-jocks suspended over slur against Alaska Native women; on what makes someone a real Alaskan: "it's somebody who makes love to the Yukon River and urinates in a Native woman"

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Pa. Sen. Arlen Specter diagnosed again with cancer

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Luciole friend and contributor Marion Berlinger has a beautiful slideshow of her trip to Egypt on her La Luciole Magazine page

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 9:57 AM | Add Comment

After stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping... and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: An Indonesian woman in costume and her face painted takes part in the Solo Batik Carnival

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Poland marks 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:51 AM | Add Comment

Jimmy Carter embraces Hamas official; "Since Syria and Hamas will have to be involved in a final peace agreement, they have to be involved in discussions that lead to final peace," Carter said Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Boom in camps for chronically ill kids; campers say not having to hide illnesses and being treated normally make them feel more accepted

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:32 AM | Add Comment

France may outlaw inciting extreme thinness

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A skylight in a lava tube provides a view of the lava from Kilauea volcano near Kalapana, Hawaii

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds protest Dalai Lama in Seattle

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 9:29 PM | Add Comment
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