Pearl AdamD

French noted family, the son of Daniel Pearl and his wife Mariane, about 6 lbs. Pearl, 38, the newspapers South Asia bureau chief, disappeared 1/23/2002 in the violent port city of Karachi, Pakistan, while researching a story on Pakistani militants. Pakistan has charged four Islamic militants in his kidnapping and murder. Mariane Pearl, a free-lance journalist, now lives in Paris, where the couple met when he was on assignment there. She was six-months pregnant with their only child when Pearl disappeared. In a statement, the Pearl family said: ``For us, Adams birth rekindles the joy, love, and humanity that Danny radiated wherever he went. The name Adam symbolizes the birth of humankind and the connectedness of civilizations. Read less