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...sediments that were sandwiched between layers of volcanic ash, whose age can be accurately gauged by a technique known as argon-argon dating. (This layering is still visible in places that have not been so heavily eroded, enabling the scientists to trace the area's geologic history.) The verdict, confirmed by a second dating method and by the other primitive animals found with the hominid remains: most of the fossils are between 5.6 million and 5.8 million years old, although one toe bone is a few hundred thousand years younger...
...reach, the government arrested the only corporate representatives left in Laos, the Danes. Held for more than six months before they were charged, the couple was finally accused of embezzling and selling sapphires. Prosecutors at the one-day trial provided little evidence to support the claims, and the verdict was typed before the trial even started. The case has provoked outrage in Australia and, though negotiations continue, calls are growing to cut off aid to Laos?about $11 million last year...
...Erdogan to jail in 1998, his pro-Islamic Virtue Party wept crocodile tears. The courts, guardians of the secular Turkish state, had been lying in wait for the charismatic Erdogan. So when he recited a well-known poem at a political rally, it was their chance to pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party's aging leadership and the Turkish establishment mistrust one another...
...This spring, the Ministry of Public Health asked Vichai to let scientists study nine V-1 patients over six months. But after three months, Vichai claimed that the patients had all wandered off and could not be traced. The health authorities stopped the tests in mid-June. Their verdict: inconclusive. That hasn't deterred the pharmacist and the ex-police chief, however. On June 2, Salang organized a free handout of V-1 at a Bangkok soccer stadium. It was a spectacle right out of a medieval plague tableau: hollow-eyed and ravaged by the disease, more than...
...obvious as Milosevic's culpability might appear, the tribunal's verdict will not come soon. Even the start of the trial remains months away: Milosevic's lawyers will likely file a raft of procedural appeals to delay the hearings. The three judges who will hear the case - Richard May of Britain, Patrick Robinson of Jamaica and Mohamed Al-Habib Fassi Fihri of Morocco - will make the ultimate determination of Milosevic's guilt; but the tribunal's brand of painstaking jurisprudence means that his fate may not be settled for years. If he is found guilty, Milosevic will probably face life...