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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for May 2008

Models on the runway for "Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair" benefit for Village Care of New York look like living Rose Bowl parade floats

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2008 8:09 AM | Add Comment

NY women make "Sex and the City" opening-night scene

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2008 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Bone drug Zometa helps fight breast cancer spread

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2008 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Opinion piece from Richard Reeves: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD GOVERNING. Another viewpoint on Scott McClellan's tell-all book about Bush; "some of us did know and did say so all along... people like McClellan questioned our patriotism, our manhood and our sanity"

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2008 7:51 AM | Add Comment

Video: Flutterby (music by Counterfeit Gypsies). Animation of fascinating bugs from the Australian bush inspired by Sir David Attenborough's work

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 9:22 PM | Add Comment

Models display items from Cartier High Jewellery in Shanghai and gold jewellery by Ginza Tanaka in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 9:05 PM | Add Comment

Sharon Stone apologizes for remark on China quake

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: A Female Security Force in Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Baby born healthy after extremely rare ovarian pregnancy in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Video of "The Rifle" by Alela Diane. She is from Nevada City, CA

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 7:31 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A model presents a wedding gown by designers Victorio & Luchino during Barcelona Bridal fashion week

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 2:15 AM | Add Comment

Review: `Lost' ends season with answers, mystery

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 2:07 AM | Add Comment

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribe buys up land in Minnesota to restore prairie

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 1:47 AM | Add Comment

Japanese scientists create microscopic noodle bowl

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2008 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Obama distances himself from another clergyman, Rev. Michael Pfleger, after his speech mocking Hillary Clinton

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 7:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Marines pass out Gospel verse to Iraqi Muslims; residents of Fallujah are viewing soldiers as "occupiers acting as Christian missionaries"

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 7:04 PM | Add Comment

Two years on and 50,000 people displaced, Indonesia mud volcano still flowing. Scientists believe it was caused by a gas drilling operation by an energy firm

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Crib deaths linked to common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Iceland shaken by magnitude 6.1 earthquake

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 5:40 PM | Add Comment

Study says Stonehenge was a burial site for centuries

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 5:33 PM | Add Comment

Why does anyone find symbolism in the scarf Rachel Ray wore in a Dunkin' Donuts ad? Many people wear kaffiyeh scarves. Even people who eat donuts

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 5:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Tiny freshwater organisms survive by stealing genes from other creatures; gave up sex 40 million years ago

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 5:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo of Marilyn Monroe on her last finished film, "The Misfits" will be auctioned next month

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2008 5:04 PM | Add Comment

Did you know you can subscribe to Luciole Press Blog?

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 10:38 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Archaeologists find ancient army HQ of the Pharaonic army guarding northeastern border of Egypt for more than 1,500 years

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Gut superbug C-diff causing more illnesses, deaths

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Cyclone survivors victimized by Myanmar soldiers

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 10:06 PM | Add Comment

Childhood 'toy' revealed as ancient Persian relic; John Webber, 70, used the golden cup for target practice as a boy

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's book about Bush administration is scalding; McClellan says he was constrained by duty and loyalty before, but always promised to tell the "whole story of what I knew"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 12:09 PM | Add Comment

Tenn. woman dies in iron lung after outage; she spent nearly 60 years in iron lung after polio, managing to graduate from school and write a book

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 12:05 PM | Add Comment

Green Beret Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, electrocuted in shower on Iraq base. At least 12 soldiers have been electrocuted

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 11:59 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

How much has the lake near the epicenter of the earthquake in China swollen? Take a look. 80,000 people being evacuated

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2008 12:42 AM | Add Comment

Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death camp while relating family history

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos: A mother flamino with her baby at the Oji zoo in Kobe, western Japan

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:32 PM | Add Comment

Sydney Pollack was an artistic powerhouse

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Sharon Stone sticks her foot in her mouth, says China's earthquake "bad karma" for its treatment of Tibet. (This reminds me of when people said Hurricane Katrina hit the US because we support gay rights)

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:19 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Photo: Gee, bamboo sure is tasty. Two giant pandas in Beijing enjoy a stick of bamboo

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Children in Hurricane Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments; one doctor says, "You give them the most potent steroids, the most potent antibiotics, and still they have the symptoms"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2008 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Japanese railway turns to feline 'stationmaster' for help; Tama will appear in a French documentary film being directed by Myriam Tonelotto

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 6:24 PM | Add Comment

Children not getting breakfast because of aid cuts

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists in Alexandria discover statues of Aphrodite and Cleopatra, and a mask thought to belong to Mark Antony

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Quake brings rare freedom for journalists in China

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi teens forced to train for suicide bombings; said one of the youths: "The Saudi insurgent threatened to rape our mothers and sisters, destroy our houses and kill our fathers if we did not cooperate with him"

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2008 5:57 PM | Add Comment

German parents post ad to sell their baby on eBay for 1 euro ($1.57)

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2008 5:19 PM | Add Comment

China aftershock destroys 71,000 homes; 2 killed

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

Myanmar aid effort stalls as French ship turns back "citing its shock at the resistance of Yangon's military regime"

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2008 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo: What does it look like to be an old barn in Kansas with a severe thunderstorm coming? You can almost hear the thunder...

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2008 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Article on this Memorial Day Weekend: Veterans' burials nonstop at national cemeteries, with cemetery employees having to ask families to leave so the next service can begin

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2008 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Wave of violence amongst youth in London has claimed the life of a "Harry Potter" actor

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2008 6:51 PM | Add Comment

Art investment is the next frontier for Russian super-rich; Russian collectors have been buying up works from their homeland and abroad (including the paintings offered by Bacon and Freud)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 10:37 PM | Add Comment

New books, film find hidden hero of Holocaust; Rezso Kasztner negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to save Jewish lives in exchange for cash, jewels and trucks

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A green turtle swims in a tank at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 6:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A waxy monkey frog sits on a branch while on exhibit at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, Fla

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Earthquake mutes protests of Beijing Olympics

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Myanmar to allow foreign help for Cyclone victims

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

Do you want to support BREAST CANCER research? A fun and easy way... buy this designer's jewelry and "support hope"

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2008 5:06 PM | Add Comment

Itsy bitsy teeny weeny little salmon skin bikini? Chilean fashion designer Claudia Escobar uses salmon scales for bikinis and trousers

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2008 10:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A large movie poster is shown near hats worn by Mexican actress Maria Felix on display at an exhibition at Miami Art Central in Miami

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2008 10:54 PM | Add Comment

Chinese eager to adopt quake orphans

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2008 10:47 PM | Add Comment

McCain rejects evangelical leader over Nazi remarks

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2008 10:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: young supernova with a pulsar at its center

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:22 PM | Add Comment

Argentine man sentenced to 16 years in incest case similar to that of Josef Fritzl

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: boy plays inside pipes laid out on a street in New Delhi

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: The Olympic torch has resumed its relay in China, just 10 days after the quake

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:02 PM | Add Comment

China sends emergency relief to quake-hit pandas

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 10:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two Tasmanian devils. The animals will now be listed as an endangered species

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:43 AM | Add Comment

From Japan: Lost parrot Yosuke ignores police, tells veterinarian his address

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:38 AM | Add Comment

Supernova caught exploding on camera

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:35 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Meanwhile in China, a person enjoys "Fish Therapy" at the Sanya Pearl River Nantian Hotspring Resort

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Woman rescued 9 days after China quake

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:17 AM | Add Comment

First dinosaur tracks found in Arabian Peninsula; 11 long-necked sauropods

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2008 11:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A kitten roams in quake-devastated Beichuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Bush apologizes over US soldier's Quran shooting

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Do we know enough about presidential health?

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 11:03 PM | Add Comment

U.S. graphologists study handwriting samples of the three presidential candidates

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 10:59 PM | Add Comment

Missing matter found in deep space. Astronomers say it is strung along filaments that form the backbone of the universe

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 2:10 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A bumblebee on a flower at the Chelsea Flower Show in London

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 1:44 PM | Add Comment

Sen. Edward Kennedy has malignant brain tumor

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Goat-rearing Afghan nomads, the Kuchi, inspire U.S. designer Elizabeth Muir

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 12:51 AM | Add Comment

Triptych of three self-portraits by contemporary artist Francis Bacon and a major canvas by Lucian Freud, currently the world's highest-priced living artist, will be sold by Christie's next month

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 12:46 AM | Add Comment

Darfur Awareness: Danish art student Nadia Plesner is being sued by fashion house Louis Vuitton for her T-shirt design depicting its handbag being carried by a starving child

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 12:33 AM | Add Comment

Mexican donkey jailed for ornery behavior

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2008 12:30 AM | Add Comment

Photos: More pictures from the Chaiten volcanic eruption in Chile

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 9:25 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "The Return of Burma's Monks." How the people of Burma are helping each other

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 9:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Medical workers in Hanwang, China walk past fallen buildings, supporting each other

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 4:27 AM | Add Comment

Anti-foreigner violence spreads in South Africa; refugee immigrants from neighbors like Zimbabwe beaten, burned, killed

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 4:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: 1963 oil and silkscreen ink on canvas by the late Robert Rauschenberg entitled 'Overdrive.'

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 1:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Chinese donate their newfound wealth after quake: "In a China normally racing full-throttle toward getting rich, the deadliest disaster in a generation has touched off an unprecedented outpouring of charity, especially among newly wealthy"

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Barack Obama gives speech at Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon. Looks like a million people showed up (well, many thousands. Huge crowd)

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2008 1:40 AM | Add Comment

Lawmakers in Britain to vote on controversial hybrid embryo bill which would allow scientists to use animal-human hybrid embryos in research

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Presidential race in the stars for astrologers, analyzing the three candidates at their conference in Denver called "United Astrology Conference: Rockin' the Universe"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Studios, actors resume contract talks. Talks between AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) began May 7; contracts expire June 30

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Article: "President Bush lectured the Arab world Sunday about everything from political repression to the denial of women's rights but ran into Palestinian complaints he is favoring Israel in stalled Mideast peace talks."

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 7:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Elaine Davidson, Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Woman' ... Edinburgh, Scotland. She has 5,920 piercings

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown in motion. Poised for Triple Crown (Good luck Big Brown!)

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 4:00 AM | Add Comment

NYC campaign shows dark side of counterfeit goods: One ad reads "When you buy counterfeit goods, you support child labor, drug trafficking, organized crime and even worse"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 3:57 AM | Add Comment

UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 3:54 AM | Add Comment

Astronomers mystified by 'weird' star, "a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen"

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2008 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Thailand. Auan, a seven-year-old female cat, licks the body of Jeena, a three-year-old male mouse, at a farmer's house in the central province of Phichit

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2008 5:57 PM | Add Comment
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