Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for February 2009

The days of one-size-fits-all cancer treatment are numbered: a rush of new research is pointing the way to tailor chemotherapy and other care to your tumor's genes

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a hare runs in a snow covered field near the village of Karpavichi, Belarus

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2009 5:16 PM | Add Comment

British cats to be tagged and tracked, to gauge how much they are responsible for destroying wildlife: possibly 150 million birds, mice, rabbits, moles and other creatures every year

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2009 2:35 PM | Add Comment

Dada and surrealist masterpieces make US stop: "This exhibition shows an art of strange and miraculous things that spark the imagination... Walking into it is almost like walking into a waking dream"

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2009 2:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a male stork stands next to his mate (Budapest Zoo)

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2009 2:23 PM | Add Comment

Militant threats chill Pakistani entertainers: "Many artists are so nervous they won't mention the word 'Taliban' in conversations"

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2009 2:12 PM | Add Comment

Study: "Astonishing richness" of marine life in polar seas

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2009 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Polar bear cub Wilbaer plays with his mother Corinna, at Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a couple dances and kisses inside a heart shaped from candles in the center of the Ukrainian city of Lviv

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:24 PM | Add Comment

Rwanda genocide investigator, Dr. Alison Des Forges, among plane crash victims in Buffalo: "She was... the epitome of the human rights activist: principled, dispassionate, committed to the truth and to using that truth to protect ordinary people"

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:18 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah shakes up religious establishment, dismissing the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:13 PM | Add Comment

Space collision debris to orbit Earth for millenia

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:09 PM | Add Comment

Charlotte, N.C. in same predicament as Wall Street: "There's a bit of a state of disbelief... We are seeing things happen that no one else has contemplated before"

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the delicate pink flowers of the Corymbia "Summer Beauty" flowering gum from the Myrtacae family, at the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 4:04 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Parrots play with a rose during a performance ahead of Valentine's Day, at a safari park in Shenzhen, China

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:53 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of Indians vow to defend rights of women; fuming over recent assault on women in a pub, they vow to fill bars on Valentine's Day & send cartons of pink panties to radical Hindu group Sri Ram Sena (who branded outgoing females immoral)

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image showing the spiral galaxy Messier 101

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 3:05 PM | Add Comment

Gen. Boris Gromov, last Russian commander of troops in Afghanistan, warns US: "Afghanistan taught us an invaluable lesson ... It has been and always will be impossible to solve political problems using force"

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 2:59 PM | Add Comment

Detention and torture center, a symbol of Argentina's "dirty war," now a United Nations human rights center

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 2:47 PM | Add Comment

13 Facts About Friday the 13th

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a rainbow over San Jose, Costa Rica

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 1:25 AM | Add Comment

Scientists flabbergasted by speedy songbirds, who cover more than 300 miles a day on their annual migrations

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a campaign pin made for Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 12:13 PM | Add Comment

Poll: 38% of Americans favor probe of "war on terror" excesses under Bush

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 12:09 PM | Add Comment

Breaking it down: Winners, losers in $789B stimulus package... GM both wins and loses, while homebuilders get less aid

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 12:01 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -62- A YOUNG GIRL BECOMES A FIREFIGHTER

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 11:56 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists search for unmarked mass graves containing hundreds of unbaptized babies buried by the Catholic Church on the edge of a Belfast cemetery; families demand right to bury children in family plots

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 3:44 AM | Add Comment

New museum examines Lincoln at Gettysburg -- (plus photos from Ford's Theatre, decorated as it was the night of Lincoln's assassination)

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2009 7:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: models display part of the fall winter 09/10 collection for Danish fashion brand Moonspoon Saloon during Copenhagen Fashion Week

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2009 7:24 PM | Add Comment

The badly burned koalas, Bob and Sam, who became best friends after surviving Australia's deadliest bushfires

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2009 6:13 PM | Add Comment

WHO GETS WHAT: Billions for clean water, parks

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2009 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Body dragged nearly 20 miles on NYC highways; victim was hit by another vehicle, and the van accidentally hooked the man and dragged his body

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2009 6:01 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Grand Canyon, which has been voted the greatest natural wonder of the world in a UK poll

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 11:03 PM | Add Comment

Newly discovered comet, Lulin, will come within 38 million miles of Earth on February 24th

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:57 PM | Add Comment

No herring dinner for me! Marine sanctuary baffled by the baby seal with a fish phobia

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Best wishes to those affected by the storms in Oklahoma... Photo: clouds rolling over Oklahoma City

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:47 PM | Add Comment

Oldest winner in history of Westminster Kennel Club show: Stump, an elderly Sussex Spaniel, wins coveted Best in Show Prize

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Photos:Nineteen-day-old ox 'Heart,' born with a heart-shaped marking on his forehead at Yamakun farm in Fujisawa, near Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a model of a project, showing a conference center suspended from the ceiling at the Masdar exhibit during the Cityscape exhibition in Abu Dhabi. Environmental concerns fuelling movement in Europe to build "smart cities"

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 11:17 AM | Add Comment

Study: Birds shifting north; global warming cited

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 11:08 AM | Add Comment

Spain withdraws cervical cancer shot after illnesses

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Senate passes Obama's economic recovery plan

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 11:02 AM | Add Comment

Koala rescued from Australia's wildfire wasteland

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2009 10:57 AM | Add Comment

Bushfire death toll "to reach 230'' (or higher) as Australian PM brands arsonists "mass murderers." One badly burned man carrying his burned infant daughter said, "I've lost my wife, I've lost my other kid, I just need you to save my daughter"

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2009 10:30 AM | Add Comment

Brand new 44-storey luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel goes up in flames, ignited by fireworks during Chinese holiday

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2009 10:25 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand town of Tekapo is in the dark, and proud of it. Fighting light pollution has become a mission, with the ultimate prize being UNESCO's approval as the first "starlight reserve." The astro tourists are already visiting

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 9:00 PM | Add Comment

The face of an Ancient Egyptian priestess revealed after 3,000 years: Meresamun was a "Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun" in Thebes around 800 BCE

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 8:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Denver International Airport's rearing blue mustang sculpture draws wild reaction

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Two little boys with rare disease end up in the same kindergarten: Derek Coleman, 5, and new best friend Henry Johnson, 6, both have Apert syndrome

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 8:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Keeper Thomas Messinger feeds little anteater 'Benita' at the Berlin Zoo, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Analysis: Obama may learn from slips on stimulus

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 11:20 AM | Add Comment

84 killed in deadliest-ever Australian wildfires. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd: "Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria"

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Drought-hit China to divert water from its two longest rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow, according to report

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 11:02 AM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -61- I WISH YOU COULD KNOW

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 10:58 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the recently discovered galaxy "Segue 1" orbits the Milky Way, and is believed to be composed of mainly dark matter

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 2:23 AM | Add Comment

Face to face with the women suicide bombers: "raped, shamed, and psychologically manipulated, Iraq's female suicide bombers are, all too often, not seeking paradise but fleeing the hell of their lives on Earth"

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 2:13 AM | Add Comment

New amphibian species found in Colombia 'is sign of hope'

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Video and photos: dog fighting makes a comeback in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 1:15 AM | Add Comment

"Russia willing to help on Afghanistan, but only on the Kremlin's terms." Russia grants transit rights to non-lethal U.S. military supplies headed to Afghanistan, after pressuring former Soviet state to close air base leased to the Americans

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 12:57 AM | Add Comment

Deal announced on emergency stimulus plan

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 12:54 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Budapest Zoo's 19-year-old polar bear, Lady, catches fish in her pool... UPDATE: added article and incredible photos taken by Steven John Kazlowski in the Arctic (his new book is "The Last Polar Bear")

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an artist's impression of the newly discovered giant snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which measured 45 feet and weighed 1.25 tons when it slithered over the Earth 60 million years ago

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:41 AM | Add Comment

More havoc in Britain as thousands of schools, airports, and roads close due to continuing snow storms and falling ice; many people are being rescued from their cars as the weather worsens

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Canada encouraged by U.S. Senate's move to soften the "Buy American" provision in its $900 billion stimulus bill, but said it would maintain diplomatic pressure on Washington to keep protectionist measures out of the plan

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:18 AM | Add Comment

2 Afghans face death over translation of Quran

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:14 AM | Add Comment

"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: this very deep image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC-4921, along with a spectacular backdrop of more distant galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Barn owl catching voles is ambushed mid-flight by two kestrels, who take his prey away; this is repeated many times until they get their fill, and leave the owl to his catch

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Ants tricked into raising butterflies

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 1:07 AM | Add Comment

Few get surgery for grim pancreatic cancer; perhaps 10 of every 100 patients have their pancreatic tumor cut out. Also, extensive info on the disease

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 12:47 AM | Add Comment

Maryland college professor Leopold Munyakazi, accused of genocide in his home country of Rwanda, arrested for being in the U.S. illegally. One person reviewing the indictment said the time frame does not fit

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 12:39 AM | Add Comment

Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 12:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a glass frog, one of 10 new amphibian species discovered in Colombia recently

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:45 AM | Add Comment

Earliest evidence of animal life: sponges found in 635 million-year-old rocks in Oman

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:38 AM | Add Comment

"There's no reason only poor people should get malaria," says Bill Gates, as he releases a jar of mosquitos at technology conference (they were disease-free)

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a survivor of colon cancer, is hospitalized with pancreatic cancer

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Cramps founder and punk pioneer Lux Interior dies

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 11:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A ring tailed lemur at Battersea Park Children's Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 12:55 AM | Add Comment

Astrophysicists say intelligent life could be thriving on 40,000 planets in our galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Endangered Catalina Island fox population booms

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Photos: hackers take over electronic road sign in Texas, warning of zombies and that "the end is near"

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 12:23 AM | Add Comment

AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image; Shepard Fairey's iconic creation of Obama poster with the word HOPE is being challenged

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2009 12:15 AM | Add Comment

Gang of children, some as young as 10, caught slowly roasting puppies over bonfire. A passerby intervened and rescued them, taking them to an RSPCA center. They were injured, but will be ok...

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Kyrgyzstan's government asks parliament to approve closure of a U.S. military air base which supplies U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Photo: St Peter Basilica is seen over Sant'Angelo bridge on the Tiber river

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:22 AM | Add Comment

Vatican: Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson must recant. Pope Benedict says he feels "full and indisputable solidarity" with Jews, and warns against any denial of the full horror of the Nazi genocide

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:13 AM | Add Comment

WWII Resistance fighter Andrée Peel marks her 104th birthday by breaking silence on wartime heroics; she saved the lives of more than 100 servicemen. "I rarely thought of my personal safety, I just acted and did what I believed was the right thing"

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:41 AM | Add Comment

Gorilla warfare in Kent zoo; photograph wins prize in competition for Nicholas Godsell

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Survey: number of Americans who think a college degree is essential for success has risen dramatically in recent years, but two-thirds of them also believe that higher education is priced out of reach

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: huge ice sculptures at Chitose-Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival in Chitose, northern Japan

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:27 AM | Add Comment

Mysterious and deadly bat disorder, discovered just two winters ago in a few New York caves, has now spread to at least six northeastern states

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 2:20 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Drops of water fall from icicles after they are hit with the the afternoon sun in Columbus, Ind.

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Degas ballerina bronze, "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans," and Modigliani's "Cariatide" amongst art pieces for sale at London auction

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Blizzard of anger follows London snowstorm; economic losses may be $4.3 billion as people skip work and schools remain closed: "One of the world's biggest economies should not be grinding to a halt"

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 8:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A baby black howler monkey clings onto its mother's back in Singapore

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 12:44 AM | Add Comment

Henry VIII's armour reveals he had a 52-inch girth -- for which he paid a terrible health price (new exhibit opens April 3rd at the Tower of London)

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 12:36 AM | Add Comment

Earliest U.S. chocolate use found in Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, dating to between A.D. 1000 and 1125

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 12:22 AM | Add Comment

SWAT teams routinely deployed in 911 fraud -- hackers using internet-based phone services for the hearing-impaired to send fake distress calls, which send SWAT teams to random homes across the nation

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Photo: some of the 9,000 picture postcards amassed by American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975), part of the exhibit 'Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Posted by kluciole at 2/2/2009 4:34 PM | Add Comment

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