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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for September 2008

Table of Contents for the Autumn Issue of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 6:16 PM | Add Comment

Voting for president begins in pivotal Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 6:12 PM | Add Comment

Article from Britain: "There ARE some reasons to be cheerful: Fifteen glorious things you can still do for free" (includes beautiful pictures of autumn foliage)

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Pakistani girls show their hands painted with traditional henna in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr festival in Multan, Pakistan

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 4:35 PM | Add Comment

Herd mentality rules in financial crisis, experts say

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 4:31 PM | Add Comment

Senate to vote on financial rescue plan on Wed.

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 4:27 PM | Add Comment

Feds take a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list and propose to add 48 Hawaiian species to the list at once

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2008 4:22 PM | Add Comment

Photos from the Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Bus-Sized Dinosaur Breathed Like Birds

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 11:14 PM | Add Comment

Federal court overturns Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 6:26 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author Kurt Kamm: Words of Firefighters – 17

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Many cancer patients forgo painkillers

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 6:19 PM | Add Comment

House ignores Bush, rejects $700B bailout bill; Dow plunges. Rep. Frank says "Republicans' refusal to vote for the bailout was a rejection of their own president"

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 12:24 PM | Add Comment

Hubble Space Telescope Suffers Serious Failure

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Cadbury pulls melamine-laced chocolate from China

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 12:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: new Caledonian crested gecko uses his tongue to moisten his eye at 'The World of Reptiles' in New York City's Bronx Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Wind and Snow Do Strange Things on Mars

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 5:17 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Egypt: Kidnapped 19-member European tour released

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 5:12 AM | Add Comment

Polls: Obama inches ahead in tight race

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2008 5:06 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photos: beautiful endangered Great Green Macaws are seen in a captive breeding center in Rio Segundo de Alajuela, Costa Rica

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Paul Newman planned for charitable legacy after death

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 11:15 PM | Add Comment

Two noteworthy articles: TIME's "In Search of Sarah Palin"... and the article it references, "Palin Problem" by conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who says: "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself"

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 11:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an Indian yoga practitioner performs during the 3rd National Women's Yoga Championships in Amritsar

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Namibia: Race against time to save ancient Portuguese shipwreck

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Sold to US taxpayers for $700B: banks' bad assets

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Hurricane Kyle spreads rain, wind in Maine on way to Canada

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 9:52 PM | Add Comment

Style and substance at stake for Biden, Palin: debate will be this Thursday

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 9:41 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Illinois foundation acquires Holocaust letter exhibit; included are letters secretly carried by children through the sewers of Warsaw, Poland, during the 1944 uprising

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

China's first spacewalk team returns to Earth

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 2:53 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi Christians protest parliament's decision to stop setting aside seats for minorities on provincial councils

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 2:49 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: Taliban assassins kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman, Malalai Kakar (she led Kandahar city's department of crimes against women); her son was also badly injured

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 2:34 PM | Add Comment

Hospital deaths of 40 newborns shocks Turkey

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 2:31 PM | Add Comment

MI6 turns to Facebook for new spy recruits

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2008 2:28 PM | Add Comment

Tina Fey reprises role as Sarah Palin on `SNL'

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Article from LiveScience: "In Pain? Stop and Smell the Roses" (studies show that rose hips improve arthritis)

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 10:15 PM | Add Comment

Tentative deal reached on financial markets bailout

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposes summit on collective European security

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: incredibly beautiful carved rock crystal ewer, from the late 10th or early 11th century. The 1,000-year-old ewer, one of only seven known surviving examples, will be offered for auction next month at Christie's Islamic art sale

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: "Rednecks for Obama"

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 11:48 AM | Add Comment

2 quick polls give Obama edge in debate

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 11:41 AM | Add Comment

Hurricane watch for Maine as Tropical Storm Kyle heads north

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2008 11:36 AM | Add Comment

Paul Newman dies at age 83

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

Hidden cameras capture twelve-year-old male lion brothers Tonyi and Tombo playing and rolling over each other at Werribee Open Range Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Using a mirror to create the illusion that a person's paralyzed limb moves in tandem with a healthy one appears to speed recovery from stroke

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 11:14 PM | Add Comment

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, still influential in Iranian politics, "warned the West on Friday that its support for Israel would backfire"

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 11:04 PM | Add Comment

MySpace's new music service irks independent music group

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 10:58 PM | Add Comment

Photos of koalas from Sydney Wildlife World

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Abraham Lincoln's lesson for today's culture wars

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 10:44 PM | Add Comment

Oregon hospital tells grandfather, 71, that he's pregnant

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Analysis: First presidential debate produces night of contrasts

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Two people enjoy a sunny autumn afternoon in a public garden in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Wall Street's woes worry charities, arts groups: "Financial services firms and their well-paid executives have historically been generous givers to museums, colleges, hospitals and social service organizations"

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Massive reform to Britain's constitutional laws could give first-born daughters the right to ascend the throne, and allow Roman Catholics to rule (changing the 300-year-old Act of Settlement governing the succession)

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 6:42 AM | Add Comment

Researchers have developed a safer way to make powerful stem cells from ordinary skin cells, taking one more step toward regenerative medicine

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 6:38 AM | Add Comment

Researchers say Quebec bedrock may be Earth's oldest at 4.28 billion years old

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 6:36 AM | Add Comment

A bad day for the GOP on politics & bailout plan as summit meeting "devolved into a contentious shouting match." Rep. Frank said, "I don't think a president has been repudiated so strongly by the congressional wing of his own party in a long time"

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2008 2:52 AM | Add Comment

Photo: An owl looks out at visitors from its cage in a zoo near Amman

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Shoes make news as models rise and fall in Milan

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

London Underground trains to get a cool makeover

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

NASA chief Michael Griffin says space exploration key to mankind's survival

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Purr-fect ending to battle over Hemingway's cats

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Amid GOP revolt, bailout deal breaks down

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 6:58 PM | Add Comment

650 million-year-old reef found in Australian outback mountain range; "could provide fresh insight into early life on earth"

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:06 AM | Add Comment

Most Australians want to dump the monarch as head of state and become a republic, an opinion poll showed Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 10:03 AM | Add Comment

Lion cub and two baby orangutans have developed kidney stones at a zoo near Shanghai, making them the latest victims of China's tainted milk crisis

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 9:59 AM | Add Comment

STONING IN THE 21ST CENTURY? Film: "The Stoning of Soraya M." (which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival) highlights ongoing practice of stoning women for perceived sins or crimes

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Lawmakers announce: Financial bailout agreement reached

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

Photo: partial view of a sculpture by Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota involving hundreds of shoes stuck to the facade of a building in Berlin's Mitte district

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists have found a bust of pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt's Nile Delta

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Fire burns ancient sites near Peru's Machu Picchu

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 8:19 PM | Add Comment

Video/song: Mychael Danna - Driving in the Rain

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 2:03 PM | Add Comment

Great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca's grave stokes Civil War dispute

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:56 PM | Add Comment

Ike-battered Galveston allowing residents home

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:51 PM | Add Comment

World leaders seek unity to fight financial crisis: "Let us rebuild capitalism in which credit agencies are controlled and punished when necessary, where transparency ... replaces opaqueness," said French President Sarkozy

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the recently discovered white diamond weighing nearly 500 carats

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:46 PM | Add Comment

The sun has dialed back its furnace to the lowest levels seen in the space age, new measurements from a space probe show

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:42 PM | Add Comment

Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an Afghan beggar woman looks after her sick daughter while she waits to get money in Jalalabad

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Federal Reserve plows $30 billion into money markets overseas to ease credit stresses

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:39 AM | Add Comment

Michael Moore political movie "Slacker Uprising" released free on Web; aims to encourage young people to vote

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:35 AM | Add Comment

Half of self-described conservatives now express the view that churches and other houses of worship should stay out of politics; four years ago, only 30% of conservatives expressed this view

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:32 AM | Add Comment

A natural antioxidant commonly found in red wine and fruit (resveratrol) may protect against radiation exposure

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2008 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A view of Stonehenge at sunrise

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Feds ask to put wolves back on endangered list

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 6:39 PM | Add Comment

A reader needs HELP: Dorothy Parker has written to ask if anyone knows how to reach her niece Geri Lynn Hayes and her husband and daughter, James and Miranda (they have lost touch after Hurricane Ike)

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 2:05 PM | Add Comment

A touching portion of "Words of Firefighters" (#15) sent in by author Kurt Kamm

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Journalists blocked and threatening boycott after efforts to restrict access to Palin at the UN conference (such as the campaign trying to bar CNN from sending their reporter, but relenting when they said they would not send their cameras then)

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 10:04 AM | Add Comment

Two articles on the bailout: "Treasury chief Paulson on verge of historic new powers" and "Is Paulson's Bailout Proposal Constitutional? No"

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 9:49 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Resetting immune system in bid to beat scleroderma

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Millions spend half of income on housing

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 9:33 AM | Add Comment

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 9:30 AM | Add Comment

Poem: A Dream, by William Blake (mentioning a glow-worm, which is another term for firefly or luciole)

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:39 PM | Add Comment

Bulgarian band Irfan, with lead singer Vladislava (live, Paris 2006)

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Kidnappers have seized 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians during a Sahara desert safari to Gilf al-Kebir, a plateau famed for its prehistoric cave paintings

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing, drawing ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:12 PM | Add Comment

Writer Dominick Dunne left court, treated for pain

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:09 PM | Add Comment

Photos from Munich: Oktoberfest

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 4:10 PM | Add Comment

Chimps Prefer Cooked Food ... (Natural History Magazine)

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 4:04 PM | Add Comment

Russian court finds 13 guilty of ethnic killings; the attacks were videotaped, set to heavy music and widely disseminated on Web sites

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:58 PM | Add Comment

Visitors flock to timber town of Forks, Washington for Twilight's magic ... (Twilight is a series written by Stephenie Meyer)

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:53 PM | Add Comment
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