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Show D'AILY- A4 Friday, April 11, 2008 HERALD FAST FACT MOMNGBMEFIG on August The ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the ballot box. 18, 1920, guaranteed women access Source: The Book of 1,001 Questions Trivia Compiled from Duiy Herald wire services The WORLD The Nation 5 ' JEAN PIERIAssociated Press Stinky Flower Allanzo Tulloch, 13, and his mother, Artie Thompson right react to the odor of a blooming "corpse flower" at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, Minn. "I was expecting a mild stink, but it smelled like a dead mouse," said Tulloch. The corpse flower is an endangered Sumatran plant, called titan arum, known for the smell of rotting flesh, it omits during its rare bloom, once every 15 years. Jury convicts MLK Jr. disciplinary panel investigating the case, said the US. Olympic Committee has been ordered to return the medals. The decision follows the admission by Jones last year that she was doping at the time of the Sydney Games. confidant of incest A jury LEESBURG, Va. convicted an iconic figure of incest Thursday after concluding that he had sex with his teenage daughter 15 years ago. The Rev. James L. Bevel, 71, a top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. who also helped organize the Million Man March, faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced. trial in LouThe four-da- y doun County Circuit Court included bizarre testimony about Bevel's philosophies for eradicating lust and parents' duty to "sexually orient" their children. Bevel's daughter testified that she was repeatedly molested by Bevel beginning when she was just 6 years old, culminating in an act of sexual intercourse in 1993 or 1994 that formed the basis of the incest charge. The jury reached its verdict alter about three hours of deliberations. civil-righ- ts SHIZUO KAM BA YASHIAssociated Pre.ss How big is your smile? A woman smiles as she demonstrates Japanese electronics and health-car- e company Omron Corp. 's Okao Catch, or "face catch," that can measure how big your smile is during a newly opened technology exhibition space TEPIA in Tokyo, on Thursday. The software technology scans a video image to detect faces. It can find up to 100 faces in an image, according to Yasushi Kawamoto of Omron. Okao Catch then analyzes curves of the lips, eye movements and other facial expressions to decide how much a person is smiling using data collected from a million people and their smiles, he said. Colorado parents fight over baby's gang affiliation ' COMMERCE CITY, Colo. When Mom wears one set of gang colors and Dad wears another, conflict over how to raise the baby can cause irreconcilable Egyptian opposition leader arrested differ- ences. At least that's what happened for one Commerce City, Colo., couple. Commerce City police were called to a disturbance Saturday at a Hollywood Video, where a man reportedly was harassing his who was working there. The man knocked over a computer and a magazine stand and yelled obscenities at her, witnesses said. He left the store before police arrived. When officers questioned the woman, they learned that the two had been together for four years and were the parents of a child. When police asked the woman why the two had separated, she said they have "different ideas about how the baby should be raised," according to a police report. When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs. "They could not agree on which gang the baby would claim," Swift said. , m ; Families of Virginia Tech victims settle for $11 million Most ROANOKE, Va. families of yictims of the mass shooting at Virginia ' Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors' medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman was to blame: Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said on Thursday that a "substantial majority" of families of victims of the Virginia Tech shooting agreed to the settlement. Peter Grenier and Douglas Fierberg, who represent 21 families, said the settlement was worth more than $11 million, but neither they nor the governor would discuss its terms until final papers are drawn in a few days. Grenier and Fierberg said . Wrapper trail leads to candy thieves , CINCINNATI Police in Cincinnati say a trail of candy and wrappers led them to suspects in a break-i- n at a downtown candy store. Four people have been seriously injured victims "will be well compensated and ' charged with breaking and entering. One of the four also has been charged with child endangering. Police say Christine Ruther had her 7j week-oldaughter with her when she and three others broke into Peter Minges & Son candy store Thursday. They are accused of taking about $400 in candy. The group was arrested a few blocks away. needs have their health-car- e taken care of forever," and that families who lost loved ones would be "similarly compensated and cared for." "We want to make sure the settlement is fiscally responsible for the commonwealth," Kaine said, "but it's kind of a fair balance of a variety of interests." Kaine called the agreement "very positive," but noted that families who have FBI: Suspect not agreed to it still could file of pregnant suit. Notice must be filed by taken into d , ' strips medals from Marion Jones' IOC RALEIGH, N.C- -A Ma- rine wanted for the brutal slaying of a pregnant colleague who had accused him relay teammates of rape was arrested ThursMarion Jones' former re- day night in Mexico after a international lay teammates paid the price three-mont- h manhunt, authorities said. Thursday for her doping FBI agents and Mexican offenses, losing their medals from the 2000 Sydney authorities arrested Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean around Olympics. The International Olympic 7 p.m. EDT. He is charged Committee executive board with murder in the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria disqualified and stripped the medals from the athletes who Lauterbach, whose burned won gold with Jones in the remains were found in Janu1,600-metrelay and bronze ary in the back yard of his in the home near Camp Lejeune. relay. Her teammates on the Magdalena Guzman, a s 1,600 squad were spokeswoman for Michoa-caMexico, state prosecu-tor- s Clark, Monique Hennagan, LaTasha office, said Laurean was detained by Mexican police and Andrea Anderson. y The sqund also had on a street in the small town of Tacambaro, Micnoacan. Chryste Gaines, Torri EdPolice said Laurean matched wards, Nunceen Perry and a description circulated by Passion Rkhardson. IOC legal adviser Francois US, authorities, Guzman said. Carrard, who assisted the er 400-met- Jearl-Mile- Colander-Richardso- 400-rela- n . Big Ben turns 150 pro-ducm- LONDON Happy Birthday, Big Ben. One of Britain's last bell foundries marked the 150th anniversary of its biggest creation the massive bell whose on bongs sound the hour at the Houses of Parliament . Thursday. The bell was made by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which also made Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and the Bell of Hope, given to New York by Londoners on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Big Ben was cast on April 10, 1858, at the foundry in east London, although it was another year before it first rang out from Parliament's clock tower. "We are going to toast Big Ben's health at the end of the working day," said Mike Backhouse, the foundry's works manager. "Whether we'll sing 'Happy Birthday,' I don't know." Big Ben has given its name to one of London's most famous landmarks Parliament's clock tower, designed by Charles Barry. The tower is popularly known as Big Ben, although the name actually refers only to the great bell inside. n 19th-centur- y to hold AP photographer pending review of amnesty U.S. The U.S. milBAGHDAD itary will continue to hold Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein until it has reviewed an Irani rtrrlor rrrantinrr Mm neo-Goth- amnesty from allegations, terror-relate- d a U.S. spokesman said Thursday. An Iraqi judicial committee saw the country's first election cantonal (state) police. on Monday dismissed terrorism-related in nine years as a moment too "The train went over the allegations against child but luckily it had fallen historic to miss. Hussein and ordered him re"This is our chance to stop between the rails," he said, leased after nearly two years the bleeding," said Arpana adding that the driver made an in U.S. custody. woman emergency stop after seeing Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Marshall Shrestha, a the carriage roll toward the a spokesman for the detention waiting to vote in Katmandu. "Always there was blood in edge of the platform. command, said that the milRescuers heard the baby's Nepal Not anymore." itary could not comment in deAn estimated 60 percent of cries and found it lying betail because it had not received Israel retaliates, the 17.6 million voters cast bal- neath the train, virtually una complete report from Iraqi ' harmed. 20,000 polling stations. authorities. . cutting off fuel to Gaza lotsButat the violence including In an response to JERUSALEM Israel cut the slaying of an independent Nobel Peace Prize an AP request for comment, off the only source of fuel to candidate shows how hard Marshall said that "all charges winner bows of out Gaza's 1.4 million people Thurs- it will be to forge true peace in are now reviewed to detertorch relay this often and vio- Olympic day after a deadly Palestinian mine the applicability" of the raid on the Israeli depot, deeplent country. Nobel Peace laureate Wan-galaw on individual detainees in Maathai of Kenya said ening the seaside territory's ' American custody. The am, hardship. Thursday that she would not Baby in carriage nesty law, passed In February, Gaza's Hamas rulers warned unharmed after run as planned in the Olympic was strongly encouraged by being more attacks will follow, as Tanzania this Washington as a blown in front of train torch relaya indecision resentment grows over a made weekend, measure among Iraq's rival months-ol- d Israeli blockade. in protest of China's human-right- s MOEHLIN, Switzerland . groups. . The fuel cutoff that followed A baby whose carriage abuses and destruction U.S. authorities have said a the brazen daylight attack on was blown by the wind onto of the environment. U.N. Security Council mandate the only fuel transfer point railroad tracks and run over Maathai, who won the Nobel allows them to retain custody into Gaza brought charges that by a train survived with little Peace Prize in 2004 for her of a detainee they believe is a Islamic extremists were trymore than a bump, police said environmental and political ac- security risk even if an Iraqi tivism, said she had notified or- judicial body has ordered that ing to provoke another round Thursday. of violence with Israel while was sitting ganizers of the torch run that The prisoner freed The UN. man in the buggy when a strong she would give up her spot in putting Israel in the untenable date is due to expire this year. the relay Sunday, joining in the position of appearing to cause gust of wind blew it off the Under Iraq's amnesty law, a humanitarian crisis. platform and into the path of growing international protest ' a grant of amnesty effectively an oncoming train, said Though some Israelis decloses a case and does not asagainst China. manded that Israel halt all supGraser of the Aargau She also echoed Nobel laure sume guilt of the accused plies to Gaza, Israeli defense y officials indicated the cutoff would not last past the weekri trust-buildin- g Ber-nha- rd in slaying Marine custody April 16. ProsecuCAIRO, Egypt tors charged a key leader of Egypt's main prodemocracy . group on Thursday with inciting unrest and violence, officials said, four days after thousands stayed home from work and school as part of a nationwide strike. of George Ishaq, the opposition group Kif aya, was arrested Wednesday night in a raid on his home in downtown Cairo. Another of the group's QandiL founders, Abdel-Halisaid the case against Ishaq is part of a government crack-- . down on Kif aya in retaliation for Sunday's labor strike where thousands of Egyptians skipped school and work and hundreds marched at rallies to protest high food prices. The demonstrations were organized by several opposition groups, including Kifaya, which means "Enough" in Arabic. The nationwide strike was the first major attempt by such groups to turn the past year's scattered labor unrest into a wider political protest against President Hosni Mubarak and his ruling party. ate Desmond Tutu's call for heads of state to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in August. "As the torch is going g around the world, it is greater division than unity Maathai said by telephone from Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian capital "For the heads of state not to attend is the best way to demonstrate they support the global public opinion that is emerging and join in sending this very strong message to China." end. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, Wednesday's attack was only "the beginning of the eruption" against the blockade. Nepalis embrace return turn to democracy Nepalis embraced the country's return to democracy Thursday with millions voting in an election meant to secure lasting peace in a land riven by communist insurgents and an autocratic king. Undeterred by shooting and clashes that killed two people, many voters lined up before sunrise outside polling stations across this Himalayan land. Some even broke into applause when voting began. With the rebels out of the MANISH SWARUPAMOCiated Pri A Nepali woman casts her vote at a polling station, in bush and contesting the vote Janakpur, Nepal (240 miles east of voted and the monarch the world's Katmandu), on Thursday. Nepalis Thursday in a historic election intended to bring last Hindu king likely to communist insurgents into the country's democratic mainstream and expected to end the soon lose his throne, millions world's last Hindu monarchy. |