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Russian modern art gets younger, less politicized

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2011 3:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the India-Pakistan border, taken by the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Searing words: Nepal's prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy, Jhamak Kumari Ghimire

Posted by kluciole at 9/3/2011 4:11 AM | Add Comment

Syrian gunmen break artist Ali Farzat's hands as 'warning'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2011 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Bare-breast protest by Femen group at Ukraine trial

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Interesting article: "One-child policy a surprising boon for China's girls"

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Call to ban wild animals from British circuses

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2011 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Controller halts pay for California lawmakers

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2011 3:19 PM | Add Comment

UN backs gay rights for first time ever

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2011 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Asking too much of U.S. consumers? "Cut down on debt / boost spending as home values tumble and gas prices soar"

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2011 10:53 AM | Add Comment

Guam mulls going its own way

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 8:24 PM | Add Comment

Please come "like" the Luciole Press fan page on Facebook

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Government cuts rates for hard-to-insure patients

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 12:54 PM | Add Comment

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2011 3:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Despite economic growth, India lets many of its girls die

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Did you know there was a short-term uproar about John McCain not being born in the US?

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2011 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Report: Book "Three Cups of Tea" inaccurate

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Wolves to come off endangered list within 60 days

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:34 PM | Add Comment

Chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:11 AM | Add Comment

Planet could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2011 2:06 PM | Add Comment

Calif. gov's newest ally? A 'fur ball' with charm named Sutter

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2011 9:39 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2011 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Australians giving up on Aboriginals, according to poll

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:35 PM | Add Comment

Second person denied Arizona transplant coverage because of state budget cut has died

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2011 9:44 PM | Add Comment

GOP drops some of its campaign promises right out of the gate

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2011 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Rousseff becomes first woman to lead Brazil, vows to "to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all"

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Israeli companies outsourcing to Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2010 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Congress votes to avert Medicare doctor pay cut

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2010 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Is the College Debt Bubble Ready to Explode?

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2010 12:39 AM | Add Comment

California approves use of pesticide linked to cancer

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:28 AM | Add Comment

Beautiful, Scott. New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "i'd like to thank the following people...my so called 'thanksgiving' riff 2010"

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Having children abroad? Your country may not want them

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 2:49 AM | Add Comment

Caged and bound for Britain: Factory-farmed monkeys are being shipped in the thousands to UK laboratories

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Tigers could be extinct in 12 years if unprotected

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Dutch artists stage nationwide protests against cuts

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Senate approves $4.6B for black farmers, Indians

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:01 PM | Add Comment

Ukraine's topless group Femen widens political role

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei under house arrest

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Russian reporter in coma after beating in Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:16 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

An Iranian film wanders in an allegorical desert

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Parents told to leave disabled kids at homeless shelters

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:43 PM | Add Comment

War veterans hold different views of midterms

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:36 PM | Add Comment

Immigrant vets face deportation despite service

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:53 PM | Add Comment

Oxford University's Bodleian Library receives 1,000 new books a day

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Deadlock in UN biodiversity talks in Nagoya

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Homer Simpson is Catholic, Vatican paper declares

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 2:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Special Report: The problem with phthalates

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

Israel unlikely champ in global real estate

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2010 1:13 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: California Teachers Paying for Their Own Supplies and More (even to clean classrooms now)

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2010 12:01 PM | Add Comment

America moves on from spill; Gulf coast feels abandoned: "It's amazing how quickly the American public forgot that this was one of the worst manmade disasters in U.S. history"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

$93,000 cancer drug: How much is a life worth?

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:28 PM | Add Comment

Russia gives Poland more Katyn massacre files

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:15 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: "New Health Care Benefits Kick in Today: What to Expect"

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:10 PM | Add Comment

"The New Poor: For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again"

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2010 1:58 AM | Add Comment

Anti-immigration party formed from skinhead movement seizes balance of power in Sweden

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2010 1:48 AM | Add Comment

The curse of the blood rubies: Inside Burma's brutal gem trade

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:48 PM | Add Comment

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

U.S. vows help in fight against Congo sexual violence

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Indiana ruling halts caregiver choices based on race

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Michelangeo's "David" Gets Dragged into an Italian Proxy War

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:33 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:50 PM | Add Comment

China bets future on inland cities

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:46 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 4:56 AM | Add Comment

The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform spurs conservative activists to fight against coverage

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:11 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Animal Rights: New Laws Take Movement to the Mainstream

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:02 AM | Add Comment

Russian curators anger church, but escape jail

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:51 AM | Add Comment

How Postal Rate Hikes Foretell America's Future

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment

US government files lawsuit, says Arizona immigration law crosses 'constitutional line'

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

EPA: the Clean Air Interstate Rule would overturn Bush-era plan; "measure requires 31 states from Massachusetts to Texas to reduce smog and soot-producing emissions"

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:31 PM | Add Comment

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Funniest reason given for why someone could not be a Russian spy

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:02 PM | Add Comment

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:53 PM | Add Comment

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:19 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment
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