Milestones May 15, 2006

SENTENCED. Zacarias Moussaoui, 37, al-Qaeda member who pleaded guilty to helping plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to life in prison without parole; in Arlington, Va. Although some relatives of 9/11 victims criticized the jury for declining to sentence Moussaoui to death, others said they were satisfied because he would not become a martyr. He will spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement at "Supermax" in Colorado, the country's highest-security prison.

REVIVED. The estate claim of Anna Nicole Smith, 38, ex-stripper and widow of Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall; by the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned a 2004 appeals court...

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