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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for April 2008

After all the strange quakes in Oregon, California should not feel left out. Scientists warn another big one will happen within 30 years

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Man loses 17th-century violin (made by master Venetian craftsman Matteo Goffriller in 1698) on train

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: An artist performs with a fire during a night show in Minsk, Belarus

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 1:12 AM | Add Comment

Female stars launch campaign to aid poor women, girls. Alliance has the backing of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Queen Noor of Jordan and former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 1:07 AM | Add Comment

McCain more conservative than his image

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a 'votive statue' which Mesopotamians placed in temples to stand in perpetual prayer, at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum, is part of a new exhibit called 'Catastrophe! The Destruction and Looting of Iraq's Past.'

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Peru says Yale has over 40,000 Machu Picchu relics, "10 times the original estimate"

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Old rockers give new meaning to life and lyrics, including a 92-year-old war bride screaming The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 2:52 PM | Add Comment

12 reasons 'bitter' is bad for Obama: "Some hard-working Americans find it insulting when rich elites explain away things dear to their hearts as desperation"

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:36 PM | Add Comment

World Bank leader urges action on food as mounting food prices have caused deadly violence in several countries

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:32 PM | Add Comment

Jack Handey's thoughts get deeper

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:29 PM | Add Comment

Venezuela axes "The Simpsons" as bad for kids, shows "Baywatch" in its place

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:47 AM | Add Comment

Homeowners feel heat in West coal boom; people are worrying about their houses exploding from methane or chemicals leaking in through taps on "split" estates, where they own land and someone else owns their mineral rights

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: The London Eye is seen as snow falls in London April 6

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2008 12:01 AM | Add Comment

"Obama's remarks give Clinton an opening." A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters prompts some voters to hand out "I'm not bitter" stickers in North Carolina

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2008 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Women outnumber men in new Spanish government

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2008 11:49 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poetry reading Sunday at the Amsterdam Cafe in North Hollywood. Hosted by Luciole friend S.A. Griffin, with contributors David Smith and Scott Wannberg, plus Kalamity J and Saria Idana

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

A poem by Rosalía de Castro, Spanish writer, and a ghazal by Ghalib, Urdu poet

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

Photo: cat with different coloured eyes at the Ghamadan Zoo near Amman, Jordan

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 11:01 PM | Add Comment

Ticket sales soggy for UK's Glastonbury festival

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

Swarm of earthquakes detected off Oregon, 600 in the last 10 days. Scientists monitoring underwater micrphones say they have never heard anything like them in the area in 17 years

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 7:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Pomeranians pose inside the tulip garden of the Marunouchi shopping district in central Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 4:12 PM | Add Comment

Body of missing Russian artist Anna Mikhalchuk found, an apparent suicide. She had been condemned by the Orthodox Church for an exhibit in her homeland

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Swedish spruce may be world's oldest living tree, at an age of around 8,000 years

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 4:03 PM | Add Comment

Russia opens monument to space dog Laika, "a dog whose flight to space more than 50 years ago paved the way for human space missions"

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 3:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Walking in Thoreau's footsteps on the Penobscot River

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Clinton, Obama are mostly the same on policy; here are a few differences

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

EU urged to ban food additives over child hyperactivity fears

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Watch a video of Joshua Allen Harris' amazing recycled art, white plastic bags made into polar bears which come to life over subway grates. Plus, two articles

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Olympic flame arrives in Argentina for planned street fiesta, but officials are worried

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 7:54 PM | Add Comment

Ancient seawater holds clues to asteroid impacts

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

FBI arrests suspect Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean in slaying of pregnant Marine who had accused him of rape, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 7:36 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Star formation and artist rendering of new planet discovered by Spanish astronomers, located 30 light years from Earth

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 3:51 PM | Add Comment

"Lyuba," a four-month-old preserved baby mammoth from the Russian Arctic, gives scientists glimpse of mammoth insides

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 3:45 PM | Add Comment

Author Ellen R. Sheeley has a new blog. Go check it out!

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 3:31 PM | Add Comment

Melting causes lake in Chile to empty as a tsunami rolling through a river; no one injured. Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier was because of rising world temperatures

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Ancient dancing. South Korean traditional dancers perform at the royal palace of Changgyeonggung in Seoul during a reenactment of Eoyeonrye

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 11:36 PM | Add Comment

Obama joins Clinton in urging President Bush to boycott Beijing's opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 11:31 PM | Add Comment

Elton John raises $2.5 million for Clinton: "I'm amazed by the misogynistic attitudes of some of the people in this country."

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 11:27 PM | Add Comment

London's Tower Bridge to get facelift

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Study links magnesium deficiency to faster aging

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 6:38 PM | Add Comment

Researchers suspect Stonehenge was ancient healing site

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 6:33 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: China's View of the Olympic Torch War

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 6:30 PM | Add Comment

A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail for England from the Netherlands on Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 5:54 AM | Add Comment

Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories) Project: a $205 million upgrade will allow a laser-wielding observatory to monitor tens of thousands of galaxies for mysterious gravitational waves

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 5:51 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Newlyweds kiss near the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra or Cave Monastery

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2008 5:45 AM | Add Comment

'Other Woman' question shadows Chelsea Clinton. She says, "I don't think you should vote for or against my mother because of my father."

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Baby black panther at the Miskolc Zoo and Cultural Park in Hungary

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 11:28 PM | Add Comment

British physicist Peter Higgs believes the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle," will be found soon

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 11:24 PM | Add Comment

Photo: smiling girl seated on a float of flowers at the Madeira Island Flowers Festival in Funchal, Portugal

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 8:07 PM | Add Comment

Baby Lali, born with two faces in a northern Indian village, is "doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 8:01 PM | Add Comment

Petraeus hearings preview fall presidential campaign's Iraq debate, illustrating "the starkly different ways that a Republican or Democratic successor to President Bush might manage the conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 7:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Indian jewellery designer Garima Maheshwari poses with jewellery collection which was used in the Bollywood movie 'Jodhaa Akbar'

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Harry's Bar, the famed Venice watering hole of Ernest Hemingway, is offering a discount to "poor" Americans suffering from a weak dollar

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 12:07 AM | Add Comment

States 'recycle' meds to battle costs, collecting unused prescription drugs to give away to the uninsured and poor

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2008 12:02 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ancient tools unearthed in Australia, dating back at least 35,000 years

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 8:35 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend, author Ellen R. Sheeley; to honor April 7th, the one year anniversary of the honor killing of Du'a Khalil Aswad: Sheeley's essay "A HEARTFELT APPEAL TO HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN"

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: view of Tibetan protests in Paris, with Eiffel Tower in background.

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Erotic Jesus sparks art debate in Austria: a retrospective honoring Austria's cherished artist Alfred Hrdlicka at the museum of Vienna's Roman Catholic Cathedral sparks outrage

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:10 PM | Add Comment

Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko. Article by Maria Danilova

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:07 PM | Add Comment

Raul Castro's reforms may strengthen communism in Cuba

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:02 PM | Add Comment

Argentine strike ends, shortages persist

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 12:58 PM | Add Comment

Three protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge and hang banners that read "One World One Dream. Free Tibet" and "Free Tibet 08"

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a sculpture by Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (exhibition of the artist's work opens April 13)

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2008 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: raindrops on a daffodil, in Philadelphia

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2008 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi widows, orphans left stranded

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2008 1:45 PM | Add Comment

France shocked by attack on Muslim war graves

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2008 1:40 PM | Add Comment

Crewman Byron Carrillo, who died at the site of a sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea, fell from a rescue basket being pulled into a helicopter

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 11:45 PM | Add Comment

9 Common Travel Scenarios and how to handle them

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 11:39 PM | Add Comment

Charlton Heston dead at 84. When he revealed he had Alzheimer's disease, he said, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 8:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A group of bison block a lane of traffic in Yellowstone National Park

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 7:52 PM | Add Comment

Some superdelegates more super than rest; prominent Democrats can name additional superdelegates, giving them control over multiple convention votes

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A baby Katta monkey (lemur catta) cuddles with its mother in their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 7:38 PM | Add Comment

Japan's oldest person dies at 113

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Bush administration plans to carve out underground salt caverns in Richton, Mississippi, to hold some 160 million barrels of crude oil; residents "horrified"

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 6:37 AM | Add Comment

North Dakota gravel sparks fears due to erionite, an asbestos-like mineral similar to a kind linked to cancer

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Argentine farmers in Entre Rios. The farmers have declared a halt to their strike for 30 days

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 2:05 AM | Add Comment

Navajo Nation to lose Internet signal

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Stradivari violin fetches $1.2M; called The Penny after Barbara Penny, the first woman to play in the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2008 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Pandas sleeping in a stack at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2008 9:56 PM | Add Comment

George Clooney rewrote his current movie's screenplay, but the WGA will not give him credit

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2008 9:42 PM | Add Comment

Serbian farmer cuts property in two to give to ex-wife

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2008 10:51 AM | Add Comment

Scientists find host of antibiotic-eating germs; these superbugs actually thrive, not die, when a person takes antibiotics

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2008 10:42 AM | Add Comment

Photo: fashion from the "SOMARTA" collection by Japanese designer Tamae Hirokawa

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2008 12:35 AM | Add Comment

From The Washington Post: "In Speeches, Clinton Often Veers to Dark Side" (telling difficult medical anecdotes)

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 11:58 PM | Add Comment

DNA tests may solve mystery of Princess Anastasia

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 7:25 PM | Add Comment

China slams Western media coverage of Tibet

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 7:18 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Munich sunrise, behind main rail station

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination; article asks "If King had lived, what now?"

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Chinese pollution quietly takes toll in Japan; frost is mixing with acid in places like Mount Zao

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a female lion carrying her newborn cub at Raghdan Zoo, near Amman, Jordan

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2008 2:03 AM | Add Comment

5th-grader finds mistake at Smithsonian

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 11:09 PM | Add Comment

Website launches searchable register of British Empire's slaves

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 11:03 PM | Add Comment

Male rock fans likely to vote Republican, says survey (especially if you like Led Zeppelin)

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Table of Contents for the new issue of La Luciole Magazine

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Cloned goats are displayed at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 7:11 AM | Add Comment

McCain, Letterman spar on 'late Show'

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 7:04 AM | Add Comment

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: All 3 candidates need to get their stories straight

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 7:01 AM | Add Comment

U.S. image improves after years of decline, according to a BBC World Service survey

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 5:48 AM | Add Comment

L.A. wants to whitewash graffiti mural after giving permission for it to be painted

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2008 5:43 AM | Add Comment
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