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EU money helps Roma get jobs and fight stereotypes

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

My dad was a Marine. We used to go to this base often; we were stationed nearby. "Marines pour resources into mental health care"

My parents' favorite song: 'What a Wonderful World' songwriter Weiss dies

Thanks go out for the good thoughts; my mom is still holding on, but she did get into an argument with me and her deceased parents!

Love is universal: this brave monkey ran into traffic to save her baby, then fought off a hungry dog to protect her little one

Study shows value of quality-of-life cancer care

Female circumcision victims seek out Colorado doctor

Myanmar 'has created world's largest tiger reserve'

Patient who endured heart, liver, kidney and lung transplants has now become as a doctor

Former inmates of Auschwitz, a Catholic Pole recalls daring escape to save his Jewish girlfriend

Women's empowerment fuel economic hopes and fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan

Help Gulf Coast Animal Shelters

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

Tiny, rare African Crowned Crane chick now has happy feet - thanks to a new pair of green slippers that straighten its toes

Thanks to all for their good thoughts; I will be writing back shortly

Asking for good thoughts for my mother

Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books

Oscar the bionic cat: Pioneering surgery gives him two false back legs

WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies; Edith Shain was 91

Luciole Press friend and contributor, author and publisher Ami Kaye, has a new book and a new website to check out!

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Little Maddison wants to raise money for operation for her 'disfigured' foal Diego: "He is my best friend and I don't care what he looks like, to me his face makes him special"

Australian 'angel' saves lives at suicide spot

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

Tiny owl chick falls into lion den and survives for three days before it is finally able to fly away

Cord blood transplants a viable option in leukemia: "patients fare as well with stem cell transplants taken from a cord blood bank as they do from a well-suited adult donor"

Nutrients may be why some smokers avoid cancer

A beautiful article about finding an old friend after a purchase of a book with an old inscription

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

Drug boosts survival in major melanoma (skin cancer) study

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

Poem: "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver (previously posted)

Effort aims to rescue horses: Farm diverts animals from slaughterhouses

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Photo: (Nazret, Ethiopia) Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

An essay from Luciole friend/contributor Christine McClintock: "Child Abuse - The Fight to Protect"

Woke up this morning and thought about Alphonse de Lamartine's "The Lake," which I have posted before. So, two other poems, "Butterfly" and "Memory"

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Quote about living from Agatha Christie; painting, "Moon" by Alphonse Mucha

Omega 3s may help cut colon cancer risk

Hailed a hero: German shepherd called Buddy led police down winding back-roads to owner's burning home

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education

Use of vitamin supplements 'can reduce long-term risk of contracting breast cancer'

Testing lung tumors tailors chemotherapy, matching tumors to targeted drugs to choose the best drug for an individual patient

Silk brain implant could aid spinal injuries, epilepsy

Home found for orphaned seal delivered by hunter

RIP Wilma Mankiller: Remembering First Female Chief Of Cherokee Nation

Scientists: "Toads are a telltale sign for impending quakes"

Photo: US Marines feed a stray puppy in northern Marjah, Helmand province in Afghanistan

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

Frosty the cat survives FOUR WEEKS in a chilled food warehouse... by eating frozen peas

Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival

Bitter Melon Extract May Slow, Stop Breast Cancer

There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers

Luciole Press is on hiatus until the next issue, to be published May 1 (important to read this)

The Healing Power of Herbal Tea

Great essay from Luciole's Emma-Jayne Saanen (send love to Dougal): "Would you lend a paw? Would you stop to help an injured animal?"

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

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

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

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

If smokers with cancer quit, they double their survival chances

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

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Stem Cell Research Gets a Boost From Vitamin C

Afghanistan's first skatepark mixes rich and poor

Outdoors delight: Maine triples conserved acreage

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

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

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Pomegranate lotion offers new hope in war on superbugs like MRSA

Cat finds way home after 11 days, 2 broken legs

5 years later: Some struggles, a lot of hope, for tsunami orphans

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

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

Photo: students in Massachussets light luminary candles to celebrate 2009 and offer hope for 2010

The Robin Hood Food Bank for New York City -- (4 million NYC residents experience difficulty affording food)

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

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

Iraqi reunited with mother 20 years after Halabja gas attack massacre

Project C.U.R.E.: Delivering Health & Hope to the World (sending donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries)

Photo: the world's largest fingerpainting, created on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in India

Flash mob ballet for charity: 50 dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet astound Louvre museum-goers, leave behind slippers with children's medical charity address

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Prison theatre drama an escape for Romanian inmates

Poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "my so called thanksgiving riff for 2009"

Alert from Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha is closing, and the greyhounds need to be adopted!

Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin uses recycled paper in shoemaking

Photo: Palestinian girls release balloons with messages attached, during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh