Milestones

DIED. BILL ("SHOE") SHOEMAKER, 72, legendary thoroughbred jockey who rode winners in 11 Triple Crown races; in San Marino, California. Just 1.49 meters tall and weighing 44 kilograms, Shoemaker was a horse-track heavyweight, with 8,833 victories in 40,350 races, the second-most wins in history. Late Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray said Shoemaker rode "with the effortless ease and grace of a guy born to do what he was doing." At age 54, when many thought his skills were in decline, Shoemaker steered 17-to-1 long shot Ferdinand to victory in the Kentucky Derby, making him the oldest jockey to ride a Derby winner. Shoemaker suffered only two major injuries in his 41-year racing career but was paralyzed in a 1991 car crash when his Ford Bronco veered off a road and rolled. He continued to train horses from a wheelchair until 1997.

SEPARATED. AHMED and MOHAMED IBRAHIM, 2, Egyptian twins joined at the top of their heads, after a 34-hour operation; in Dallas. Specialists said the boys faced possible brain damage or even death on the operating table, but the twins' father said the risk was worth it for them to live normal lives. The boys still face the danger of infection and years of reconstructive surgery.

DIED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 32, Indonesian militant and fugitive bombmaker shot dead by police; in Pigkawayan, Cotabato, the Philippines. Al-Ghozi, a member of the Southeast Asian militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, had been on the run since July, after escaping from a Philippine maximum-security prison while serving a 10-year jail term for explosives possession. He was also a suspect in the December 2000 bombing of a Manila train station in which 22 people died. Philippine police said al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout. Authorities denied allegations from leftist militants and some politicians that the fugitive was executed while in custody in order to score points with U.S. President George W. Bush in advance of his Oct. 18 visit to the country.

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DIED. XIE XIANRONG, 37, one of China's most-wanted suspects, after he was shot during a police raid; near Zhanggang, Hubei province. Xie was wanted for the murders of four people in a September bank robbery and the 2001 killing of a cab driver. Xie was gunned down after he fired at officers who surrounded a fishing boat on which he was hiding, the Xinhua news agency reported.

LISTED. DAWOOD IBRAHIM, 47, billionaire Bombay crime boss; as a specially designated global terrorist; by the U.S. Treasury Department; in Washington, D.C. The U.S. said Ibrahim has links to al-Qaeda and helped finance attacks by Islamic militants in the western Indian state of Gujarat in revenge for anti-Muslim riots there in February and March 2002.

APPROVED. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, for viewing, nearly 30 years after its U.S. debut; in Singapore. Censors had banned the camp 1975 cult film, a musical spoof with Tim Curry starring as a transvestite space alien, but cleared it for screening at an outdoor Halloween event, the Straits Times reported. An organizer of the showing told the newspaper that censors had objected to the movie's depiction of "kinky sexual practices."

Numbers

520 meters Length of a banner depicting Thailand's Grand Palace set up to screen a Bangkok slum from the view of APEC summiteers

100 Minimum number of U.S. military bases, out of 425, that the Pentagon plans to close by 2005

1 Number of centimeters by which Shanghai is estimated to be sinking every year, thought to be due in part to a recent burst of high-rise construction

9-6 Vote by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommending legalization of silicone breast implants, which were banned in 1992 due to claims that leaking implants can cause cancer

15 million Number of jobs lost in China from 1995 to 2002 due to closure of obsolete state-owned factories, according to a newly released study on productivity

7 million Number of factory jobs lost in the world's 17 other largest economies over the same period

321 Number of individuals and organizations deemed to be terrorist by the U.S. and its allies since 9/11

$197 million Total value of terrorist-linked cash and assets seized or frozen by the U.S. and its allies since 9/11