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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for September 2008

A shortage of road salt and skyrocketing salt prices could mean slippery roads this winter in communities across the nation

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:50 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:48 PM | Add Comment

One of our readers has a HEALTH question: Has anyone else experienced similar side effect problems with HUMIRA?

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a swirling model presents creations by Indian designer J.J. Valaya on the second day of the HDIL India Couture Week in Mumbai

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 11:31 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii leprosy settlement in Kalaupapa faces sainthood dilemma

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Stalled Troopergate probe leaves many questions

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 11:24 PM | Add Comment

Aussie 'free hugs guy' Juan Mann to donate kidney to stranger

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:36 PM | Add Comment

Top 10 Controversial Court Cases

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:28 PM | Add Comment

Lesotho (South Africa) mine yields one of world's largest diamonds, weighing nearly 500 carats

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Scholar Dmitry Vasilyev claims to find medieval Jewish capital of the ancient Khazar Empire, located near Astrakhan, Russia (about 800 miles south of Moscow)

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Riders make their way on Bactrian camels along the Mingsha Sand hills of the Gobi desert in the ancient silk road oasis town of Dunhuang, China

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:39 AM | Add Comment

Azam Ali sings "A Chantar M'er"

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:34 AM | Add Comment

Campaigns wage intense battle for women's vote

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:29 AM | Add Comment

Foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Artist's rendering shows a planetary collision in the constellation Aries. Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 12:23 AM | Add Comment

CERN: Damage to new $10 billion Large Hadron Collider forces 2-month halt

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is worried by Russia's Arctic moves

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Last Jews of Calcutta have one last guardian

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 12:07 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series from author Kurt Kamm: Words of Firefighters

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A bee collects pollen on the blossom of a crocus near Borgsdorf, eastern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 9:47 PM | Add Comment

Divers reunite British World War II veteran Charles Brown, 93, with lost war medals that fell in the River Thames

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Ike evacuees jump gun, sneak back onto Galveston island

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 9:38 PM | Add Comment

Judge orders Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of records from his time as vice president

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 9:34 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Autumn Evening in a Mountain Retreat" by Wang Wei

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 2:24 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a barn cat belonging to an Amish family approaches the neighbor's dog and makes herself quite comfortable

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 2:23 AM | Add Comment

Palestinians despairing of independence effort "are lighting a fire under Israel's feet by proposing a peace in which there would be no separate Palestine and Israel, but a single state with equal rights for all"

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 2:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Two featherless chickens peck around in some grass at the Hebrew University in Rehovot

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Florida Medicaid recipients want out of nursing homes; they say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes "when they are healthy enough to live at home, with relatives, or in other less institutional settings"

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Photos: artwork by 'Ricky The Penguin,' a 7 year-old Rockhopper penguin who used his feet to create this painting that raised money for wildlife conservation (sold for $180)

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 7:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New dwarf planet named Haumea for Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 7:17 PM | Add Comment

Italian comic and political satirist Sabina Guzzanti escapes prosecution for insulting pope; Rome prosecutor tired to press case under 1929 treaty between the Vatican and Mussolini, and the Justice Minister blocked it

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Hurricane Ike helps uncover mystery vessel on Ala. coast; archeologists say it could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 7:06 PM | Add Comment

Studies show more links between vitamin D and multiple sclerosis; vitamin D "acts as an immune modulator"

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 6:59 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: Two six-week-old baby Sumatran tigers sit in their enclosure at the zoo in the western German city of Krefeld

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Clinton recruiting her backers to help Obama

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 11:23 AM | Add Comment

McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 11:19 AM | Add Comment

Vermont candidate for Attorney General Charlotte Dennett says she will prosecute Bush if she is elected in November

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 11:14 AM | Add Comment

A poem by Bibi Hayati, a Persian woman and Sufi poet from the 19th Century (with a snippet by Rumi, whom she studied)

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Some of the marine creatures to be found around the reefs of Australia (such as Lizard Island Reef), including the Comb Jellyfish

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 1:23 AM | Add Comment

Organizers of NYC anti-Iran rally next week have dropped Sarah Palin from the event, days after Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled out

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 1:18 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Storm clouds cover the full moon over Malta

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Photo: snow has fallen at the Saint Gotthard mountain pass, 6860 feet altitude in the Swiss Alps, covering a sculpture

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:41 PM | Add Comment

Some Ike victims may not be allowed to rebuild due to 1959 Texas law that says property in certain tidal lines can be seized without compensation; hurricanes like Ike redraw the tidal lines, leaving property vulnerable to seizure

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:29 PM | Add Comment

The World's Quietest Places

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 2:15 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds of new species found on Austrialia's coral reefs

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 1:01 PM | Add Comment

NASA's first 50 years: 10 most memorable missions

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 12:52 PM | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish party run by octogenarian rabbi who said Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment emerged Thursday as the kingmaker in forming the next Israeli government

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 12:47 PM | Add Comment

A koan (a paradoxical utterance in Zen) from "The Gateless Barrier, The Wu-Men Kuan" ... "A Monk Asked"

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:23 AM | Add Comment

A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:19 AM | Add Comment

Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni declares victory, prepares for new government; she is "in a strong position to become the country's first female leader in 34 years"

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel says it is a "stretch" to say Palin is qualified to be president: "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense"

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:11 AM | Add Comment

Marine praised by Bush won't get Medal of Honor; Sgt. Rafael Peralta will receive Navy Cross

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:07 AM | Add Comment

Rare otter species found in Vietnam

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2008 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Dancers perform as leaves drop down into the National Stadium, better known as the Bird's Nest, at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:27 PM | Add Comment

Poem by St. Francis of Assisi about animals: "Not to Hurt"

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Hackers break into Sarah Palin's e-mail account, raising "new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration's use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business"

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:16 PM | Add Comment

Russia suspends stock trading to stop market meltdown

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:14 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Colon X-ray seen as effective at spotting cancer

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:11 PM | Add Comment

Parachutist Adam Hammond survives fall, gets 'Pacemaker for Pain' called Eon Mini to relieve chronic pain

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "A Psalm of Life"

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Riding out Hurricane Ike on an island with a lioness named Shackle, and other stories of survival

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Stocks sink after government bailout of AIG

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

McCain campaign clamps down on questions in Alaska. Palin's normal press secretary now turns away inquiries from any reporter who isn't permanently based in Alaska, referring questions to the presidential campaign

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Knife attacks continue in the UK: latest incident sees stranger stab woman shopper 'at least 20 times' in random attack in supermarket

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:06 AM | Add Comment

Oxford University: 'We can't take many more working-class students without dropping our standards'

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 7:03 AM | Add Comment

Photo: 'Rose,' the Bronx Zoo's 12-year-old dromedary camel, with Animal Ride Supervisor Ruthie Iannuzzi, who crafts all the garments for the Bronx Zoo's 13 Camels using valances and Arabian textiles

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 9:43 PM | Add Comment

The farm girl who inspired author Thomas Hardy to write "Tess of the D'urbervilles"

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Undercover video shot at Iowa pig farm shows workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor, and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 9:34 PM | Add Comment

Death toll rises in storm-hit Texas amid health hazard

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 9:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Albanian artist Saimir Strati in front of the largest mosaic made of corks in Tirana. "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun"

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Forget the lipstick, the economy takes over campaign

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 11:55 AM | Add Comment

GOP lawmakers sue to stop bipartisan investigation into Palin's firing of public safety commissioner (Troopergate) even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Performers dressed as tigers take part in Pulikali, or tiger dance, during festivities in Trichur city, in the southern Indian state of Kerala

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Rare upside-down rainbow spotted in the UK

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 10:08 AM | Add Comment

Photos: the setting sun seen through the top of the Faisal Mosque in Pakistan (a circle within a crescent)

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 10:03 AM | Add Comment

Pakistan orders troops to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 9:55 AM | Add Comment

Photos: thousands of fish were victims of Hurricane Ike as well, and were left strewn about or stuck in fences

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 10:06 PM | Add Comment

"FIREFLIES" by Rabindranath Tagore (Luciole Press is named after fireflies... "La Luciole" is firefly in French)

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 9:43 PM | Add Comment

Grim scenes greet rescuers in hardest-hit areas

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 6:18 PM | Add Comment

McCain says Obama did not call Palin a pig: "(Obama) chooses his words very carefully"

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Painting: TMNK Obama Art Folk Raw- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? ... Original Obama Art Outsider Graffiti art 24" x 36"

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Painting: Jospeh Anton Koch's "Das Wetterhorn von der Rosenlaui aus." The Wetterhorn is a mountain in the Swiss Alps

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2008 1:09 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Chilean pink flamingo preens its feathers at the Bronx Zoo in New York

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Poll: American public opposes increased presidential power "even to enhance national security or the economy"

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:46 PM | Add Comment

Photos: the scoured shoreline in Texas after Hurricane Ike's storm surge

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:38 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Best of friends: Lonely chicken Gladys finds her soulmate ... Snowy the farmhouse cat

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:33 PM | Add Comment

President Evo Morales struggles to control Bolivia amid violence

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:24 PM | Add Comment

New breast cancer vaccine helps body fight tumors

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Wall Street awakes to 2 storied firms gone: Lehman Brothers is filing for bankruptcy, and Bank of America is snapping up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an alligator is seen crossing a road in Sabine Pass, Texas, as the area recovers from the effects of Hurricane Ike

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 6:37 PM | Add Comment

Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide: "it reminds us all of how fragile we are" said fellow author A.M. Homes

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Younger evangelicals split over Palin choice as VP

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 6:29 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The curve of the hurricane and the curve of the underwater highway... picture of Interstate Highway 45 in Houston and image of Hurricane Ike from space

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Conservative political forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:53 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

SNL' debuts with Fey as Palin, Phelps as host

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

British espionage writer John le Carre admitted he was tempted to defect to the Soviet Union during the Cold War not for communism but "to find out what life was like on the other side of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s"

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:44 AM | Add Comment

"The Church of England will tomorrow officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution"

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:35 AM | Add Comment

The amazing artist Diana Bonebrake will have a show at Beyond Baroque Oct. 25, with music by The D.J. Bonebrake Trio, with poetry by Craig Danielson, John Dorsey, S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, and David Smith. Diana is the Art Editor of Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2008 10:25 PM | Add Comment

By air, boat and truck, the search is on for Hurrican Ike victims. One person who stayed behind said: "I didn't say I had all my marbles, OK?"

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2008 6:18 PM | Add Comment
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