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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for July 2009

Strife shows ethnic tension China hopes to ignore; one expert says, "the government's attitude is that Tibetans... and Uighurs simply have to become Chinese"

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 2:54 AM | Add Comment

Photo: very cute two-day-old baby elephant pushing/leaning against its mother's leg, Taronga Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 2:48 AM | Add Comment

Face of homelessness in the U.S. changing to include more families, more people who live in the suburbs and rural communities

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 2:40 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lightning illuminates the night sky of Montevideo as a thunderstorm unfolds over the Uruguayan capital

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Photo: U.S. Marine Cpl. Brian Knight pauses in the heat in Afghanistan, loaded down with his very heavy pack

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of police prepare show of force as ethnic violence tears Urumqi (in China's Xinjiang province) apart

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:23 AM | Add Comment

Little Fareeda is a rare snow white Bengal tiger

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Great Barrier Reef facing destruction 'within 20 years' say experts ("children today could be the last generation to swim among stunning coral reefs")

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Inexplicable leukemias rock small German rural region (within two kilometres of the region lie the Kruemmel nuclear power station and the GKSS scientific research centre)

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 1:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: panda cub 'Fu Long' sleeps on his first birthday at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 1:02 AM | Add Comment

After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, "The Sun Has Spots, Finally"

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 12:53 AM | Add Comment

A woman's touch: Prehistoric cave paintings were made by women as well as men, scientists discover

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2009 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Costa Rica is world's greenest, happiest country (according to the HPI, Happy Planet Index)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: dancers from China's Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe perform in Tyre, southern Lebanon

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:54 PM | Add Comment

"Slow loris: the eyes may be cute, but the elbows are absolutely lethal" ... the world's only poisonous primates face having their teeth removed with wire cutters when captured by illegal traders

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:39 PM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS - 120- RESCUE ON THE MOUNTAIN - (Salmon River, Idaho)

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:36 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Belarussian sportsmen and women create a human fountain (celebrating Independence Day in Minsk)

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Taking shape, the new bridge (highway bypass) at the Hoover Dam

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 11:13 PM | Add Comment

NYC fireworks highlight US Independence Day events

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 10:55 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'" and "Did threat of scandal cause Sarah Palin's shock departure as Alaska's governor?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 10:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a baby hippopotamus keeps close to mom in their open enclosure in Wroclaw, Poland

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 10:37 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a Christie's employee poses next to Anthony van Dyck's "Portrait Of Mrs Oliver"

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 4:07 AM | Add Comment

Photos: entries in the international sand sculptures festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Sarah Palin Quit

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 3:51 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Even Cockroaches Get Fat on Bad Food

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 3:45 AM | Add Comment

I have never seen one like this before -- Photo: a kangaroo lying down on its back at the Heidelberg Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 7/4/2009 3:41 AM | Add Comment

"Aqua art" by Mark Mawson

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2009 4:08 AM | Add Comment

Plant disease hits US veggies early and hard; tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2009 3:57 AM | Add Comment

Japan may add noise to quiet hybrid cars for safety

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2009 3:53 AM | Add Comment

Iran to put detained British Embassy staff on trial after they 'confess' to role in post-election unrest

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2009 3:49 AM | Add Comment

A diver's very close encounter with a huge whale shark, in South Africa

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:41 AM | Add Comment

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:26 AM | Add Comment

Idaho Fish & Game plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles. "Some anglers complain the birds eat too many sport fish, though Fish and Game concedes 90 percent of their diet is non-game fish like chubs"

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:12 AM | Add Comment

Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies (lots of incredible photos of people out on "The Ledge")

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Two rare white lions, male and female, cuddle/spoon in the South African sun

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 2:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Japanese cat takes a nap alongside a farmer's workboots as seasonal rains pour down outside

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 4:38 AM | Add Comment

My mom was actually nearby as a child -- Photo: the first nuclear bomb explosion at the Trinity Test Site New Mexico, July 16, 1945

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 4:06 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

What Supersonic Looks Like: "The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual"

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 3:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: dancers during rehearsal at the BAM Opera House in New York

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

White House reporters (Nico Pitney and Dana Milbank) trade sharp words over "planted" question

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 3:50 AM | Add Comment

FDA Advisers Urge Smaller Doses of Acetaminophen

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 3:43 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a dump truck driving in the huge Cobre Las Cruces mine in Gerena, southern Spain

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2009 3:27 AM | Add Comment
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