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...many times do we have to rerun the Scopes "monkey trial"? There are gaps in science everywhere. Are we to fill them all with divinity? There were gaps in Newton's universe. They were ultimately filled by Einstein's revisions. There are gaps in Einstein's universe, great chasms between it and quantum theory. Perhaps they are filled by God. Perhaps not. But it is certainly not science to merely declare...
...ever prosecuted. "Does [the statement] mean that if they're involved in crimes, the rule of law applies to them the same as everybody else?" asks Paula McCartney, whose brother Robert was murdered by I.R.A. members in January in a bar brawl. One man is awaiting trial for the killing, but police suspect at least nine people were involved in the attack. "It's time to put some meat on the bones," says Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed by an I.R.A. bomb in 1993. "People judge them on what they do." To address the skepticism...
...planned retirement in April, said, "Vive le Tour, forever!" Charged. Vladimir Arutyunian, 27, ethnic Armenian who confessed to throwing a live grenade at George W. Bush during the U.S. President's May speech in Georgia; with terrorism; in Tbilisi. The grenade he threw failed to explode. Arutyunian, who awaits trial, says Bush was "interfering in Georgia's foreign affairs" and maintains that the attempt on his life is not a punishable offense. Convicted. 62 residents of the French city of Angers; for taking part in a child prostitution ring in which 45 children, some as young as six months, were...
...being treated more or less as an equal partner in crime largely because he had been aware that his wife had stolen computers and other items from her government office. Upcoming Cases: One features a Tennessee man on death row trying to win a new trial because of fresh, potentially exculpatory DNA evidence. Another centers on whether police can search a home when a squabbling husband and wife give different answers to officers' requests...
...SENTENCED. FARYADI SARWAR ZARDAD, 42, former Afghan warlord; to 20 years in a British prison, for torture and hostage taking; in London. In the first trial in Britain for torture committed by a foreigner in another country, Zardad was convicted of human-rights violations while ruling the region of Sarobi outside Kabul from 1992-96. On hearing his sentence, Zardad, who left Afghanistan in 1998 to escape the Taliban and was arrested in 2003 while managing a pizza parlor in London, raised his fist and shouted "Allah is great...