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Bonds is indicted on five counts
Commissioner Bud Selig withheld judgment, saying, "I take this indictment very seriously and will follow its progress closely." Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who is investigating drug use in baseball, declined comment. So did Hall of Fame vice president Jeff Idelson. Bonds finished last season with 762 career home runs, seven more than Aaron. A seven-time NL MVP, he also holds the season record with 73 home runs in 2001. He is a free agent after being told late in the season that the Giants didn't want him back next year. Bonds was charged in the indictment with lying when he said he didn't knowingly take steroids given to him by Anderson. Bonds also is charged with lying that Anderson never injected him with steroids. Prosecutors promised Bonds they wouldn't charge him with any drug-related counts if he testified truthfully.
El Paso preschooler abducted
A 3-year-old girl was kidnapped Wednesday evening from her home in the Kennedy Brothers Memorial Apartments in the Lower Valley, police said. Police said they searched late into the night for Jaylin Marie Talamantes, who was last seen shortly before 5 p.m. at home with her stepmother in the housing complex at 447 S. Schutz off Zaragoza Road, said police spokesman Javier Sambrano. Jaylin has blue eyes, light brown hair and a light complexion. She was last seen wearing pink pants, a beige shirt with purple flowers and purple slippers. Police said the girl was forcibly taken from the home. Sambrano .
These couples fell in love while training for marathons
That was the first of more than a dozen marathons for Mr. Sobol, 45, whose training and social life now revolve around the organization. He's made lifelong friends and guided newcomers through positive, life-altering changes. Recently, he met and married Becky, a Team In Training runner. According to the Leukemia Society's North Texas office, many romances blossom in Team In Training, or TNT, the world's largest endurance sports training program. Team members bond as they share the agony of long training runs and the joy of achieving dreams. TNT is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Since 1988, the program has guided 340,000 people such as Mr. Sobol to the completion of an endurance event, and participants have raised more than $800 million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Preserved corpses most popular exhibit on planet
Telus World of Science president George Smith said most people will see beauty in the specimens rather than gore and expects the $26 tickets to sell out fast. University of Alberta anatomy professor Dr. Gail Amort-Larson expects the exhibit will be a hit with Edmontonians. "Medical students especially. At the university they only have the chance to see brain slices, nothing like this. This has the potential to be a transforming growth experience for anyone who sees it," she said. Go to www.bodyworldsedmonton.com for more. .
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
With the Starship Enterprise seemingly doomed after losing warp power, Mr. Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. After repairing the engines and saving the day, Spock dies. Evidently, the movie's writers didn't think scientists would find a drug to cure radiation poisoning by the late 23rd century. Yet local scientists may be on the verge of doing just that more than two centuries before the setting of the Star Trek film. Rice University's Jim Tour and his colleagues at two Houston health institutions have found a drug that, when given to mice before radiation exposure, is 5,000 times more effective than the best-available therapy for radiation injuries. Officials at the Department of Defense, seeking remedies for the radiation sickness that would follow a nuclear strike, were so taken by the research that they recently gave Tour a $540,000 grant and asked him to compress the next phase of testing into an almost unheard-of nine months.
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