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Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:39 AM | Add Comment

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Simon & Schuster hires new publisher, Jonathan Karp

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:36 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:48 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:24 AM | Add Comment

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cyclone survivor takes part in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:06 PM | Add Comment

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years, UN warns, "unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:41 PM | Add Comment

Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing. Photos of a pelican being cleansed of oil, and a ship passing through oil patch

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

An oil platform towers in the background as a pelican flies past a surfer off the coast of Carpenteria, California

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Somali boy carries fish to the market in Mogadishu

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Obama says health care law already helps millions

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2010 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Zettabytes Now Needed to Describe Global Data Overload

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:48 PM | Add Comment

94% of fish stocks have vanished from British waters

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:04 PM | Add Comment

2 Articles: "Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'the bad one' — recipe for disaster" and "Many endangered turtles dying on Texas Gulf Coast "

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the new high-tech design of the $100 bill is unveiled in Washington

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:29 AM | Add Comment

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iceland volcano: Amazing pictures show apocalyptic scene as wall of black fog covers the country in darkness

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 2:24 PM | Add Comment

Painting, "Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness," could be lost work of Michelangelo -- now worth over $200 million

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe; new mini-eruptions "raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade"

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:01 PM | Add Comment

George Washington racks up late fees at NY library

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 2:55 PM | Add Comment

Quake in mountainous Tibetan area of western China kills 400, buries more

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:32 AM | Add Comment

Cyclone packing winds of more than 100 mph demolished ten of thousands of mud huts in northeastern India, killing at least 85 people

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: locals of the Qiang ethnic minority pick tea leaves at a tea plantation in Yaan, Sichuan province

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Stranded, oil-leaking ship is a "time bomb" for the Great Barrier Reef

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2010 8:53 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:40 AM | Add Comment

America's daring ironworkers walk the girders just like their forefathers as they rebuild at Ground Zero

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 12:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2010 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 6:57 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:11 PM | Add Comment

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:10 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 3:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:52 PM | Add Comment

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"

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:44 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:27 PM | Add Comment

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:36 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:40 AM | Add Comment

Bad year for biofuel ends on a dour note

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:21 AM | Add Comment

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2009 3:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 6:59 PM | Add Comment

225,000 Haiti children work as slaves, sold for as little as $128 to work as laborers or prostitutes

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Can eco-friendly fashion be just as stylish?

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Newsweek article: How to Live Happily on 75 Percent Less ... (and photos of the homeless who need our help -- this winter is already very harsh)

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

NHS maternity services in meltdown: former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos as "births are turning into conveyer-belt productions"

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:18 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: workers in a salt field near Ohn-chaung in Burma's Ayeyarwady Delta

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Italian police seize secret stash of masterpieces "by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art"

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
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