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Debriefing
Tuesday • Aprils,
State
Nation
Volunteers search
for missing girl
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas (AP) —
About 150 volunteers were combing
rural areas of Harris and Galveston
counties today for a 12-year-old girl
who disappeared five days ago.
“We’re just finding leads, running
them out and exhausting them,”
said Michael E. Barker, one of the
search leaders.
Laura Kate Smither was last seen
by family members last Thursday when
she left her home fora quarter-mile jog.
An aerial search was expanded
over the weekend to include a U.S.
Coast Guard helicopter with heat
sensing capability. More than 300
volunteers searched remote areas
both north and south of
Friendswood on Sunday.
Today’s hunt was farther west,
Barker said this morning.
Barker urged residents within 10
miles of Friendswood to check any
unattended outbuildings. Since
searchers did not know whether foul
play was involved in the girl’s disap
pearance, Barker urged precautions.
“Take someone with you; don’t just
send the kids out to look,” he said.
A $50,000 reward has been of
fered for information about the girl’s
whereabouts. Barker said the money
came from donations.
► This day in history
Today is Tuesday, April 8, the 98th day of 1997.
There are 267 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1513, explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Flori
da for Spain.
In 1935, the Works Progress Administration was ap
proved by Congress.
In 1946, the League of Nations assembled in Gene
va for the last time.
In 1952, President Truman seized the steel indus
try to avert a nationwide strike.
In 1970, the Senate rejected President Nixon’s nom
ination of G. Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
In 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near
Mougins, France, at age 91.
In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his
715th career home run in a game against the Los An
geles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
Spine-injuries don't
end orgasm ability
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ. (AP) —
Two researchers believe they have
isolated a chemical that produces or
gasms in women even if they have
suffered spinal cord injuries.
The finding could lead one day to a
pill that would give the same sensation
as an orgasm and also might have use
in treating pain, said Barry R. Komisaruk,
a professor at Rutgers University.
His partner in the research was
Rutgers professor Beverly Whipple,
who in 1982 wrote the book “The G-
Spot and Other Recent Discoveries
About Human Sexualities.”
Through experiments with lab
rats, the researchers determined
that the brain can receive signals of
sexual response through a pathway
other than the spinal cord.
Komisaruk found an alternate path
way through the vagus nerve, which
goes directly from the cervix, through
the abdomen and chest cavity, into the
neck and to the brain stem.
The professors then studied 16
women paralyzed by spinal cord in
juries, and found that three of them
were able to have orgasms through
sexual stimulation.
“Contrary to what people may
think, we discovered that women in
the study who were paralyzed and
had no feeling below the breast area
were, in fact, capable of having or
gasm,” Komisaruk said.
Those experiments helped lead to
the isolation of the vasoactive intestinal
peptide, which he believes is the neu
rotransmitter, or nervous system chem
ical messenger, in the body that causes
the orgasm sensation in the brain.
That same chemical may also
have strong pain-suppressing quali
ties rivaling morphine that one day
may make it a natural source of pain
relief, Komisaruk said.
O'Brien conquers
doubts of talent
NEW YORK (AP) — Questions
about whether Conan O’Brien would
last as a light-night TV host have been
answered with a five-year contract ex
tension announced Monday by NBC.
“Early on, they were timing my con
tract with an egg timer," said O’Brien,
who was an unknown comedy writer
chosen to replace former Late Night
host David Letterman in 1993 after
better-known stars demurred.
The former Saturday Night Live'
writer started Late Night With Conan
O’Brien with a 13-week commitment.
But the show and the one it follows,
Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, have been
on a ratings roll, giving NBC the top-
rated lineup for their time period.
Terms of the contract weren’t dis
closed. O’Brien said he considered it
a validation of his work.
People in the News
Taylor
In 1975, Frank Robinson, major-league baseball’s first
black manager, got off to a winning start as his team, the
Cleveland Indians, defeated the New York Yankees, 5-3.
In 1990, Ryan White, the teen-age AIDS patient
whose battle for acceptance gained national attention,
died in Indianapolis at age 18.
In 1994, Kurt Cobain, singer-musician for the grunge
band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle of an apparently
self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.
► Today's birthdays
Former first lady Betty Ford is 79. Lyricist Fred Ebb is 64.
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is 60. Basketball Hall-
of-Famer John Havticek is 57. Singer Peggy Lennon (The
Lennon Sisters) is 56. Actor John Schneider is 43. All-Star
catcher Gary Carter is 43. Rock musician Izzy Stradlin is 35.
Singer Julian Lennon is 34. Rapper Biz Markie is 33. Ac
tress Patricia Arquette is 29.
Taylor calls it quits
with hubby No.7
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elizabeth
Taylor is free to marry again. She’s of
ficially divorced from Larry Fortensky,
husband No. 7.
“It’s done,” the actress’ attorney,
Arlene Colman-
Schwimmer,
said Monday.
The lawyer de
scribed the set
tlement as ami
cable and
refused to reveal
financial details.
She said reports
that Fortensky
was getting $1.5
million were
false. “That’s too high,” she said.
The Oscar-winning star of Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butter
field 8 met Fortensky in 1988 when
both were at the Betty Ford Clinic.
They married Oct. 6, 1991, during a
ceremony at Michael Jackson's Nev-
erland Ranch.
Miss Taylor filed for divorce in
February 1996, citing irreconcilable
differences.
The 65-year-old actress is plan
ning a trip overseas in May, two
months after brain surgery to remove
a benign tumor.
► Weather
Today
Martin off air, star
to focus on films
NEW YORK (AP) — After a troubled
year for star Martin Lawrence, the tele
vision show Martin is calling it quits.
Lawrence said Monday he wanted
to concentrate on movies. His situa
tion comedy will end with a one-hour
special on Fox on Thursday, May 1.
“After five years with the series, I
feel it’s time to move on,” said
Lawrence, who starred in the movies
You So Crazy and Bad Boys.
Lawrence has been in the news
for more than his acting recently. He
was arrested in March after alleged
ly punching a man in a Los Angeles
restaurant and was arrested last
summer after a loaded gun was
found in his suitcase.
In December, former costar Tisha
Campbell sued Lawrence, claiming he
sexually harassed and sexually bat
tered her, and left the show for a time.
Oasis singer weds
in civil ceremony
LONDON (AP) — Paparazzi were
not a problem when Oasis singer
Liam Gallagher and actress Patsy
Kensit got married Monday in a se
cret civil ceremony with just the reg
istrar watching.
The wedding — his first and her
Tonight
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percent chance of
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winds at 10 to 15 mph.
Cloudy with a 5D percent
chance of showers and
thunderstorms. South
east winds 5 to 10 mph.
Cloudy with a 60 percent
chance of showers and
thunderstorms. South
east winds 10 to 15 mph.
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