The man, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the victim, was convicted of the March 10, 2006, incident on Friday. Just days after his daughter's 16th birthday, the man took her to a graveyard and told her to lie down."You're know you're old enough to date boys now," he told her. "I'm about to break you in."He took out a condom and raped her, and he later brought her back to the cemetery and sodomized her, Fulton County prosecutor Kimberly Esmond Adams said.The jury did not convict him on the sodomy charge. With prior convictions for drug and weapon charges, the man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 20 years, for rape and incest....
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 Judge Cuts Down Bush Forest Rules Admin. Guidelines Aimed At Opening More Public Land To Logging, Mining Thrown Out By Federal Jurist |
A federal judge has tossed out new Bush administration rules that gave national forest managers more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews. U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled Friday that the government failed to adequately consider the effects the rules would have on the environment and neglected to properly gather public comment on the issue. Hamilton said in her written decision that the government could not institute the new rules until proper environmental reviews were conducted, but she declined to specify how the nation's 155 national forests should be managed until then. The ruling overturns a key administration environmental rule that governs all 192 million acres of national forests and stops plans such as logging and mining in the parks. ...
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| As Violence Swells, Justice Minister Quits |
Iraq's justice minister said Saturday that he had offered his resignation, citing unspecified differences with the government and his own political group. Justice Minister Hashim al-Shebli, a Sunni Arab member of the secular Iraqi List, said he had presented his resignation to the Cabinet on Thursday but was still waiting for its approval of the decision. "I have differences with the government on one side and with my parliamentary bloc on another," al-Shebli told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He did not elaborate on the differences, but al-Shebli has been involved in a dispute over the Cabinet's recent endorsement of a decision to relocate and compensate thousands of Arabs who moved to the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk during "Arabisation" campaign in 1980s. The Iraqi List and several Sunni lawmakers have objected to the decision, saying it fails to address key issues, including property claims. ...
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| Interspecies cloning sees revival |
It was nearly a decade ago that Jose Cibelli plugged his own DNA into a cow's egg in a novel cloning attempt that was condemned as unethical by President Clinton and landed the Michigan State University researcher in a mess of controversy. Even though Dr. Cibelli and his colleagues patented the so-called interspecies cloning technique, they soon abandoned the research as a failure and the uproar subsided. Now the tempest is brewing all over again. At least three respected teams of British scientists have reignited the moral debate over inserting human genes into animal eggs by proposing experiments similar to Dr. Cibelli's. Their goal is to eliminate the need for women to donate eggs for the cloning of human embryos, a research goal they say will enable them to better understand the genetic causes of many diseases and design personalized medicines. The few scientists who are actively pursuing human cloning are hobbled by a nearly nonexistent human-egg supply. And each ...
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| Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear Missile Local Vs. Foreign Battles Continue; Ballistic Missile Launched At Undisclosed Location |
Pakistan successfully tested an indigenous short-range, nuclear-capable missile on Saturday, the military said. The surface-to-surface Abdali ballistic missile — with a range of 125 miles — was launched from an undisclosed location inside Pakistan. The missile "can carry all types of warheads," the military said in a statement issued from Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital, Islamabad. The military did not provide any further details, but Pakistan and its nuclear-armed rival, neighboring India, routinely test missiles. Meanwhile, fighting between local and foreign militants Friday killed 52 people, bringing to more than 200 the number of dead in recent days in a conflict between Pakistanis and suspected al Qaeda-linked extremists, a senior official said...
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| Bogus greenbacks from North Korea close to 'perfect' |
Kim Il-nam's first encounter with counterfeit US currency was embarrassing. On an overseas trip several years ago, the N Korean diplomat took a $100 bill from a wad of more than $7,000 he had received from the Trade Bank in Pyongyang to the front desk of his hotel. "I had to buy some toiletries, so I asked the cashier at the hotel front desk to change one of the new bills," said Mr. Kim, who uses a pseudonym to protect his identity since defecting. "She took my note away & returned, saying, 'Sir, this is fake.' I felt like a criminal & protested to the Trade Bank when I got back to Pyongyang." Things are different now. A new generation of fake "supernotes," far harder to detect, has appeared, counterfeiting experts say. Feeling the latest $100 bill from North Korea, Yoshihide Matsumura, whose Matsumura Technology Co. supplies counterfeit-detection machinery to Japan's post offices, banks & law- enforcement agencies, said: "This is the closest to perfect counterfeit US money ever made" ...
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