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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for July 2008

Photo: A cheetah observes the plains in Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2008 4:29 PM | Add Comment

NASA says Mars craft "touched and tasted" water

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2008 4:24 PM | Add Comment

La. residents near levee lose fight to keep trees

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2008 4:03 PM | Add Comment

Schwarzenegger orders cuts amid fiscal crisis

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2008 3:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A butterfly sits on a blossom in Nuremberg, southern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 6:54 PM | Add Comment

McCain, Obama to get the comic book treatment; books will be released October 8th

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 6:49 PM | Add Comment

NASA scientists find liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon Titan in large lakes

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to ban building any more minarets in the Alpine country; the Swiss People's Party (SVP) previously ran an anti-immigration campaign featuring three white sheep kicking a black sheep off a Swiss flag

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 6:37 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Russian mission to explore Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and oldest lake, put off after accident

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Portrait of Woman Revealed Beneath Van Gogh Painting

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 12:08 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

5 Things You Must Know About Skin Cancer

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 1:06 AM | Add Comment

House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 1:03 AM | Add Comment

Strong earthquake rocks Southern California

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2008 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, of Roe v. Wade, has died. Convicted 90 percent of defendants in his 36 years; 19 people have gone free due to new DNA evidence, and 250 more cases will be reviewed

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2008 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the gorgeous landscape of Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2008 8:57 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Remnants of Hurricane Dolly cause more trouble, as flash floods sweep through Ruidoso, New Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2008 8:49 PM | Add Comment

This fall, California voters will vote on the most comprehensive farm animal rights law in the country

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2008 8:37 PM | Add Comment

U.S. facing possible hearing loss epidemic

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2008 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an Indian boy flies a kite at sunset near the Indo-Bangladesh border village Raimura.

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

National suicide hot line has received calls from 22,000 veterans --- The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day by calling 800-273-TALK (8255); veterans should press "1" after being connected

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 10:54 PM | Add Comment

From author Kurt Kamm in an ongoing series: Fire Shelters... what is it like for a firefighter to be overtaken by a fire? Words from a firefighter, plus an excerpt from Kurt's novel One Foot in the Black

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Japanese sushi rage threatens iconic Mediterranean tuna

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Worms Do Calculus to Find Food

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Fatherly love... a 24-day old Giraffe calf is caressed by its father at the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta, India

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Turkish soap opera "Noor" shakes customs of Arab married life, delivering a portrayal of modern married life as equal partnership

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 11:43 AM | Add Comment

Ancient African fish could be model for body armor of the future

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2008 11:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a tiger is reflected in the water of a pond at the zoo in Frankfurt, central Germany

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2008 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopin's heart; scientists hoped to test their belief Chopin died from cystic fibrosis, and not of tuberculosis, as his death certificate says

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2008 8:52 PM | Add Comment

Prosecutor Jill Starishevsky's book "My Body" helps parents discuss sex abuse with children

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2008 8:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Friday August 1st will see a total solar eclipse visible over the Northwest Passage of Canada through Siberia and Mongolia, partially visible in many other areas

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2008 8:34 PM | Add Comment

Photos: sand sculptures at the international festival "Pure Spring" at the beach of the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Baghdad muralists resist push for sectarian themes, turning concrete slabs designed to shield against car bombs and other threats into open art gallery

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 11:10 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian Baron Georg von Trapp, at Villa Trapp; she is staying in the house for the first time since her family fled the Nazi regime to the United States in late 1938

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 11:02 PM | Add Comment

Struggling college students turn to food banks

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: bright lime aurora borealis rising above the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, Alaska

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 10:52 PM | Add Comment

First Aboriginal remains to be returned from U.S.; remains of 33 ancestors will leave the Smithsonian Institute and fly home with Aboriginal elders

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 10:46 PM | Add Comment

Pet rabbit saves Australian couple from house fire

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 10:44 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press: Summer Issue. Table of Contents, pictures, artwork, and Baby the Greatest

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 9:22 AM | Add Comment

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, dies age 47. Also: a video of his lecture, and an older article from 2007

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2008 7:31 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Flamenco dancer Mercedes Ruiz in her new show, Drawings in the Air, in Madrid

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 3:03 PM | Add Comment

Peru wants jail for nude woman who used flag as saddle; Leysi Suarez, a dancer for the band Alma Bella, says: "I haven't committed a crime. I love Peru and show it with my body and soul"

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 2:58 PM | Add Comment

Cyclone-battered fisheries worsen Myanmar's pain as thousands of widows become family breadwinners, without land to farm or the means to earn money from the sea

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 2:49 PM | Add Comment

Food for thought from the U.K. -- Beware Obamania: As he visits Britain, the presidential hopeful resembles a young Tony Blair. "Important questions about Obama's judgment, consistency and honesty are not being asked, let alone answered"

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 9:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house in Green Bay; Bob and Leona Ehrfurth say the noise that's been plaguing them for two years sounds something like a rumbling motor

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 8:38 AM | Add Comment

New Mexico cavers chart unique `snowy' river of crystals. Thought to be the longest continuous cave formation in the world; three dozen species of microbes previously unknown to science have been uncovered

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 8:33 AM | Add Comment

Pittsburgh cancer center issues strong warning about cell phone risks; based alarm on unpublished data. Scientist says: "it takes too long to get answers from science and people should take action now"

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 8:27 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand taking a stand against "bizarre" names: Judge takes temporary custody of girl to change her name "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii"

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2008 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Hurricane Dolly slams South Texas before weakening

Posted by kluciole at 7/23/2008 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Katie Couric says: "I'm a victim of sexism... Sexism in the American society is more common than racism and certainly more acceptable or forgivable"

Posted by kluciole at 7/23/2008 12:58 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Would you, could you wear these super-high and extremely floral high heels from German fashion label Scherer Gonzalez?

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Lonely Galapagos tortoise may sire young (though he is thought to be last of his kind, his companion is closely related)

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 7:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a six-legged fawn at West Rome Animal Clinic in Rome, Ga.

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 7:10 PM | Add Comment

From novelist Kurt Kamm, author of One Foot in the Black and Red Flag Warning, the first part of a new series of posts related to firefighting and firefighters

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 7:04 PM | Add Comment

A marble Roman statue carved 1800 years ago bears a striking resemblance to Elvis Presley; will be sold at Bonhams

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman takes photos of an art installation at GLOW in Santa Monica

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Obama Middle East clothing ban: What not to wear where? No green for anyone, no nail polish or tank tops for women

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2008 12:00 AM | Add Comment

The Daily Mail article: "Many Italians have such a deep-rooted dislike of the Roma, not even death fazes them" as sunbathers sit for more than an hour just feet from two drowned Roma (gypsy) children

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2008 9:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman looks at balloon lumpfish sitting on balloons at Shinagawa Aqua-Stadium aquarium in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2008 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Sarah Jessica Parker's art-competition reality show, "American Artist," to be on Bravo: artists compete in different mediums and are judged by a panel

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2008 6:41 AM | Add Comment

Firefighters keep wary eye on Calif. thunderstorms

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2008 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Chuck Norris Will Kill Your Phone

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2008 6:32 AM | Add Comment

New Album by Studio B & the Cat of Austria, including lyrics by Luciole Press Editor and Publisher Karen Bowles: "Peel"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 6:26 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

More from Luciole friends: Art Show by Diana Bonebrake (Art Editor of Luciole Press) and Michael Cano till August 8 at Orlando Gallery

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 6:16 AM | Add Comment

From Luciole friends: Flyer by S.A. Griffin; Scott Wannberg's Farewell to Los Angeles party Sunday July 27th

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:47 AM | Add Comment

Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim's Nazi reference rocks WTO talks; said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:38 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a leader he's criticized "for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Bollywood stars, including Shilpa Shetty and Aishwarya Rai, set to kick off world tour

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Thanks to Olympics, Beijing gets its Eiffel Tower, of sorts: the new China Central Television headquarters building

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:08 AM | Add Comment

Zimbabwe introduces 100-billion-dollar note as economic collapse leaves 80 percent of population below poverty line

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2008 3:00 AM | Add Comment

From an earlier blog entry: Rosalía de Castro, Spanish writer (1837-1885), [The feet of Spring are on the Stair], and a ghazal from Ghalib, Urdu poet: XII

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 11:02 AM | Add Comment

Video: hilarious Kristen Schaal in an older clip from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"... "Sexism: The media treats Hillary Clinton like a Hooter's waitress, so Kristen Schaal strips to the Indigo Girls to end the sexism"

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 10:47 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sydney Olympics synchronized swimming silver medalist Miho Takeda (R) and a swimmer dance the tango in the water

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:47 AM | Add Comment

Indian actress Sushmita Sen in Bollywood movie "Fiza" singing "Mehboob Mere"

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:37 AM | Add Comment

Animator Hayao Miyazaki's new film hits screens in Japan; "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" was inspired by the 19th-century fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:33 AM | Add Comment

Video from JibJab: Time for Some Campaignin'

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Raphael, a shihtzu owned by Patty Suplee of Houston, jumps a hurdle during an agility competition on the second day of the Reliant Park World Series of Dog Shows

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Nearly 50 metal spikes with sharpened points were mysteriously planted in the shallows of Green Lake in Seattle

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2008 12:21 AM | Add Comment

Alaskans suffer nation's highest gasoline prices, with an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community paying $8.55 a gallon

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 1:35 PM | Add Comment

Amsterdam's Artis zoo says baby panda adopted and nursed by cat dies

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: by Jim Morton, a rainbow forms over the peaks of Grandfather Mountain after a storm passed through the area near Linville, N.C.

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Happy 90th Birthday Nelson Mandela! Please read this book: Halala Madiba (Hail Mandela), is more than an anthology about one man; it is also the story - through poems from around the world - of South Africa's freedom struggle

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A Sri Lankan woman holds up a pot of jasmine flowers to place before a Buddhist shrine in Kelaniya in Colombo

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:27 AM | Add Comment

Photos: two women chat with each other a few minutes before they were executed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan for allegedly running a prostitution ring

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:20 AM | Add Comment

Flowerpot's spontaneous combustion blamed for house fire

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:13 AM | Add Comment

San Francisco most walkable U.S. city, website says

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Scientists to explore Russia's Lake Baikal, a unique ecosystem and the deepest lake in the world

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 2:03 AM | Add Comment

Too much sleep tied to stroke risk in older women?

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 1:57 AM | Add Comment

NYC police officer Wayne Taylor pleads guilty in teen prostitute case

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 1:28 AM | Add Comment

The Declining Value Of Your College Degree

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 8:59 AM | Add Comment

McCain's humor often backfires: from waterboarding and killing Iranians, to rape and Seizure World, "McCain hasn't toned down the jokes, which often play better with the audiences at town halls than on YouTube"

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 8:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 6:36 AM | Add Comment

Maillé, France 1944... The Nazis' final atrocity: why, as they were surrendering, did one unit wipe out an entire village?

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 6:17 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Roman holidays go snack-free at monuments: City Hall has banned snacking near its famous monuments, including Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:50 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Wang Junru of China performs hand balancing in Cirque du Soleil's 'Dralion' in Sydney

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:47 AM | Add Comment

London is world's most expensive parking spot

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:42 AM | Add Comment

Homeless stabbing in "hippie" town of Bolinas, CA, latest incident in national trend of violence against homeless: "typical attack involves a mob of youths that beats a homeless person with blunt objects, sometimes setting the person on fire"

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:36 AM | Add Comment

Chesapeake watermen fear blue crab not coming back

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:33 AM | Add Comment

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent millions on lobbying. People who have lobbied on their behalf have played or are playing roles in the presidential campaigns of both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:29 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Pope says world's resources being squandered, and praised the Australian government for its "courageous" apology to the country's indigenous Aborigines for past injustices

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2008 4:23 AM | Add Comment
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