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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for June 2010

AP journalist Rich Matthews dives into Gulf, can see only oil

Beautiful story, great work everyone! "Galloping back to health: 17 horses left starving after years of abuse are given a new lease of life"

75 long-lost silent movies being returned to US, including only known copy of drama by director John Ford and a period drama starring 1920s screen icon Clara Bow

El Paso Border Patrol shooting murky; both sides alledge misconduct in shooting of 15-year-old Mexican by U.S. Border Patrol agent

Poem: "Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Review: Book celebrates 50 years of `Mockingbird'

Paper industry tests genetically altered trees

Seven people convicted over Bhopal (India) gas tragedy that killed 15,000 people 25 years ago

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

A little piece of home: Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates 75th anniversary

Photo: a zoo keeper feeds a crocodile during World Environment Day celebrations at the Malabon Zoo in Manila

Simon & Schuster hires new publisher, Jonathan Karp

Drug boosts survival in major melanoma (skin cancer) study

Sickening new images of the helpless wildlife dying in the muck of the BP spill

Scientists find a 'hint of life' on Saturn's moon Titan

Prescott, Arizona elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural

Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times at close range

One of the cutest caterpillars ever! (Spicebush Swallowtail) "I've got my eye on you! The caterpillar that pretends to be a fearsome snake "

8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes "for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth"

Scientists begin 520-day Mars mission simulation

Head of large Congo human rights group found dead. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless

Computer models show Gulf oil could wind up on East Coast by July, and be carried on currents across Atlantic Ocean by Bermuda and toward Europe

Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies at 76

Sandstone arch at southern Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park collapses (I think it still looks like a dragon, but now one lying down with wings above it)

Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala World Science Festival

A giant 'basking shark' in Cornwall, swimming alongside surfers at Porthcurno beach

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

California moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, and charge for paper bags

Like lapis lazuli... Photo: the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Experts find Michelangelo code hidden in the Sistine Chapel (anatomical illustrations)

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Photo: a brown pelican soaked in oil struggles for survival on an island in Louisiana State waters.

Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98; "her sculptures explored women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death "

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid