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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for January 2010

Poem: "Variations on the Word Love," by Margaret Atwood

Stone Age surgery discovered after 7,000-year-old man found with expertly amputated arm

Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat

Photo: a humpback whale breaching in waters off Hook Head, Ireland

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Film editor Karen Schmeer ("The Fog of War") struck and killed by car in NYC

Photo: panda cubs from the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve in Sichuan

Photo: children play football in an old swimming pool on a hill in Kabul

Magnificent lion awoken from catnap by his cub's gentle roar

New exhibit at the Alida Ivanov Gallery in Stockholm: Mikael Ellingsen, "The Invisible Thread," Feb. 6- Mar. 14, 2010

Incredible journey: How Baltic the scrappy dog drifted 90 miles on a piece of ice down a river and out to sea before being rescued

'Dogs of war' saving lives in Afghanistan

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

Elderly couple discover vase used as umbrella stand is a 270-year-old Chinese masterpiece worth £500,000

Photo: a walker climbs over sheets of ice on the beach at Ruegen Island, northern Germany

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you

Stunning recovery: Haitian girl pulled from debris 15 days after the quake

Photo: John Galliano flanked by models at his presentation for Dior in Paris

From Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe: her CD "Rodeo for the Sheepish" is on a Top 10 list at KALX Berkeley

Channeling your inner alien? Maybe, scientists say

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Photo: a view of a ruined church in Port-au-Prince 13 days after the earthquake

Photo: an image from the Spitzer Telescope of a region of space called W5

Advice to Young Brides 1894 (copyright 1894 The Madison Institute)

Photo: a stunning sunrise over Melbourne

Gene discovery may help guide breast cancer care

Entombed by the Haitian earthquake: survivor buried for 11 days in coffin-like space beneath the rubble

Delightful new winter photo from Luciole friend/contributor Esmaa Self. What do you see in the outline of the branch?

Dog bites firefighter who rescued it from rain-swollen LA River

If smokers with cancer quit, they double their survival chances

WWF fears for Siberian tiger after Russian oil leak

Photo: terracotta warriors made of chocolate, on display in Beijing

Photo: a gull soars with the Swiss Alps in the background at sunrise in Lausanne

Egypt announces find of 2,000-year-old ancient Bastet (cat goddess) temple

Photo: Siberian tigers wait to be fed at the Tiger Park in Harbin, north-eastern China

Mystery visitor of the past 60 years to Poe's grave is a no-show for the first time

Photo: a model parades a dress complete with table attached at Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Photo: moonlit night in Himalayas as bright star Capella rises above Mount Everest

Scanner to reveal if 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy has a bird inside her body as an afterlife offering

Flooding rains bring rare waterfalls to Australia's Uluru

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

Photo: the Milky Way stretching above the Sahara, in the remote Tassili National Park

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland

Study shows babies of today "could end up training to be space architects"

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Longest solar eclipse for 1,000 years turns Sun into a blazing ring of fire

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows

Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children

Scientists turn stem cells into pork. One day it could be "a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon"

Photo: long night-exposure taken in Wengen shows famous Swiss mountains Moench and Jungfrau

Photo: two Belgian work horses stand together in the snowfall on a farm in Middlefield, Ohio

Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead

Rush, Robertson take heat for comments about earthquake in Haiti

Photo: Indian vendors sell flowers for the celebration of the festival of Pongal

Photo: icicles hang around a statue in St Petersburg, Russia

Study: Fast morphine treatment to wounded troops cuts risk of PTSD in half

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Strides Made in Lung Cancer Treatment

Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Photo: the Tungurahua volcano spews ashes and lava in Cotalo, Ecuador

Rembrandt piece found in bathroom cabinet goes on view in new exhibit

Surprising Sea Slug Is Half-plant, Half-animal

Photo: St. Isaac's Cathedral, seen through snow-covered trees in St. Petersburg

A graphic showing NASA's hunt for Earth-like planets with Kepler

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

Photo: icicles are bent in the wind in Ostermarkelsdort, on the northern German island of Fehmarn

Ocean in motion: Surfer captures mesmerising world where waves break against the shore

Solution to killer superbug found in Norway

Wreckage of first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 is a once in a blue moon find

Cassini mission captures Saturn in its natural colors with little sign of the spectacular rings

Photo: lava flows from the crater of Mayon volcano as viewed from Lignon Hill in Legazpi city

PBS "Great Performances" to Air "Passing Strange"

Stem Cell Research Gets a Boost From Vitamin C

Photo: Amur tiger cubs Natalia and Vladimir enjoy the snow at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland

Afghanistan's first skatepark mixes rich and poor

Outdoors delight: Maine triples conserved acreage

Cool photo: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft approaches the International Space Station

Olympic Games bring changes to Vancouver

Photo: a monkey at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Sukhimi; researchers say one of the primates there "could be blasted off to Mars"

Photo: the glittering metropolis of the cluster galaxy M13; home to over 100,000 stars but only 150 light years across

Social networking changing the way we travel

New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics

Sleeping beauties: picture perfect penguin chicks take a break on the ice

Networks blur policy of not paying for interviews

Photo: sea lion Jay writes the word tiger in Chinese characters to welcome the Year of the Tiger at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium

I am going on vacation; I have set up updates for the blog so there will be something new each day. Check out the new Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole!

Once in a blue moon ... stargazers savor spectacular lunar wonder on New Year's Eve

Photo: a gorgeous cardinal as a bright red spot against the snow, sitting on a squirrel feeder

Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin

Japan's prime minister "wants equal ties with US"

Photo: a man drives a sleigh carrying tourists in a park on a bank of the Moskva River, Moscow

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Bad year for biofuel ends on a dour note

The amazing wall of ice that makes Cumbria, Britain look more like Narnia

Embers 10,000 times hotter than our Sun left behind by supernova

New Year photo from Moscow, plus link to more

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Tweets, sexting "unfriended" in U.S. banned word list

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians