Milestones

Monday, Sep. 12, 2005 By AUSTIN RAMZY

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RETIRED. JERRY RICE, 42, arguably the greatest wide receiver in the history of U.S. football; after a storied 20 years—16 with the San Francisco 49ers—during which he set the records he still holds for most career receptions (1,549), receiving yards (22,895) and receiving touchdowns (197); in Denver.

DROPPED. All three impeachment complaints against Philippine President GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, after opponents in the House of Representatives fell 28 votes short of the 79 needed to send a case against her to the Senate; in Manila. Arroyo, who has been under attack over corruption and vote-fraud allegations since June, called the decision "a grand display of political maturity." Her opponents said they would campaign against her through street protests.

ASSASSINATED. MOUSSA ARAFAT, 61, security adviser to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and a cousin of Yasser Arafat; after gunmen stormed his family compound, dragged him into the street in his pajamas and shot him 23 times; in Gaza City. Amid claims of responsibility by militant Palestinian group Popular Resistance Committees, which criticized Arafat as corrupt, Abbas put his security forces on heightened alert, vowing to punish the killers.

DIED. BOB DENVER, 70, perennially goofy sitcom star, most famously of the critically panned but ceaselessly popular Gilligan's Island, which ran from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") in TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow.

DIED. HENRY LUCE III, 80, elder son of TIME co-founder Henry R. Luce and TIME Inc. executive whose posts at the company over 29 years included TIME's national affairs writer, London bureau chief and publisher, and head of the planning and construction of the TIME & Life Building, TIME Inc.'s headquarters, in New York's Rockefeller Center, that was completed in 1960; on Fishers Island, New York. Before arriving at the company's flagship magazine in 1951, Hank, as he was known, served in the wartime U.S. Navy and as a reporter for the Cleveland Press. From 1967 to 1996, he served on the company's board of directors, and as the head of the Luce Foundation for more than 30 years oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, primarily to museums and educational organizations. "My father was a great role model," he said. "He was convinced that America had a destiny to spread good throughout the world, and I guess some of that rubbed off on me."

APPROVED. Plans to honor former Chinese Communist Party leader HU YAOBANG at Beijing's Great Hall of the People; by President Hu Jintao; in Beijing. The celebration of the 90th anniversary of the late leader's birth will end more than a decade of official silence about his legacy. His April 1989 death sparked pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that were crushed in the massacre seven weeks later.

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10 min. Time it takes to walk a full circuit of Hong Kong Disneyland, according to one visitor. Opening this week, Hong Kong's is the smallest of the Disney parks

1.7 million Number of children in the U.S. living in homes with loaded and unlocked guns, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics

200 km Distance Saturn's innermost ring has moved since 1981, according to new images from the Cassini probe

$5 million Value of high-grade counterfeit $100 bills, believed to have been printed in North Korea, confiscated in the U.S. and Taiwan

631 Number of deaths in northern India due to Japanese encephalitis since late July, almost all children. An estimated 7 million Indian children are at risk of catching the disease; only 200,000 have been immunized

95 hours Length of the complete sextet of Harry Potter audiobooks made available last week on iTunes.com