Milestones

MARRIED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 43, former elementary school teacher who served 7 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to the second-degree child rape of her former sixth-grade student, despite claims from both that they were in love; to VILI FUALAAU, 22, the ex-pupil, with whom she has two children; at a winery in Woodinville, Wash.

CHARGED. LUIS POSADA CARRILES, 77, anti-Castro Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela, Cuba's close ally, for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies; with illegal entry into the U.S.; by immigration officials; in Washington. A former CIA operative trained by the U.S. military, he has admitted his role in other terrorist bombings in Havana, and his widely publicized presence in the U.S. over the past two months has led to criticism that the U.S. has a double standard for terrorism suspects. Though the Bush Administration has said it would not extradite anyone to Cuba or its allies, the charge may indicate a first step in deporting him.

CHARGED. ANNA AYALA, 39, Las Vegas woman who was arrested last month for attempted grand larceny after claiming she found a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili; with conspiracy to commit fraud; in San Jose, Calif. The conspiracy charge was added after the mother of a construction worker told reporters that her son, who is now cooperating with police, lost part of his finger in a work accident and gave it to Ayala's husband to settle a $50 bet. Ayala faces nearly 10 years in prison and possible liability for the $2.5 million that Wendy's claims it suffered in lost business.

DIED. MARC LAPPE, 62, outspoken medical ethicist and founding fellow at New York's Hastings Center; of cancer; in Gualala, Calif. Regularly called as an expert witness on environmental contamination, he gave testimony on silicone breast implants that helped lead to a $3.2 billion settlement by Dow Corning Corp., the implants' manufacturer, in 1992--the year the FDA banned general use of the implants.

DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage.) But he gained his greatest fame playing the Riddler, the cackling, green-clad villain on the campy 1960s TV series Batman. Most recently, he won critical acclaim for his dead-on impersonation of George Burns in the Broadway show Say Goodnight, Gracie.

DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs.

DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across the U.S.

With reporting by Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, ELIZABETH L. BLAND, Jeremy Caplan, Carolina A. Miranda, Julie Rawe, Jyoti Thottam