Milestones

ACQUITTED. Kazbek Dukuzov, 32, and Musa Vakhayev, 42, of carrying out the contract killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov; in Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian.

SENTENCED. Bjørn Hoen, 37, Petter Rosenvinge, 38, and Petter Tharaldsen, 34, to jail terms ranging from four to eight years, for involvement in the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, which are still missing; in Oslo. The paintings were snatched by two masked gunmen during a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004. Hoen and Tharaldsen have been ordered to pay $122 million in compensation to the city of Oslo.

DIED. Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted 12 days earlier by his brother Pravin, who reportedly told police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting trial.

DIED. Earl Woods, 74, former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in Vietnam and father of golfer Tiger Woods; in Cypress, California. He had his son swinging clubs as a toddler and, after failing to persuade the boy to pursue other interests, became his trainer and devoted champion, once calling Tiger the "chosen one." Yet the close bond between the two—Tiger called him "an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend"—was unmistakable. After Tiger's Masters win in 1997—the first for a black player—he and his father embraced on the 18th green, a moment that became one of the most memorable in golf. Of his son, Earl said: "My greatest satisfaction is that he's a good person."

DIED. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic, leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists, who in the writer's eye bore a striking similarity to Suharto. Freed from house arrest in 1992, he remained an outspoken critic of corrupt Indonesian governments until his death.

DIED. Jean-François Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush."

DIED. Louis Rukeyser, 73, trailblazing stock market broadcaster whose lively analysis and open disdain for professional investors made Wall Street Week, the low-tech TV program he hosted for 32 years, one of U.S. public television's best-rated shows; of multiple myeloma, a rare bone cancer; in Greenwich, Connecticut. With his tailored suits and wry delivery, Rukeyser became an unlikely celebrity from the world of economics, and PEOPLE magazine called him "the dismal science's only sex symbol." He later hosted a CNBC program until failing health forced him to retire in 2003.

Numbers
4 Number of women out of 10 who use skin-whitening products in Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines
62 New skin-whitening products introduced across Asia last year

146 million Number of children under 5 who are underweight for their age in the developing world
78 million Number of underweight children in South Asia, with India accounting for 57 million

200 Nuclear warheads estimated to be stockpiled by China, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
10,000 Nuclear warheads possessed by the U.S., nearly 60% of which are operational

$6.1 billion Amount Hollywood's major movie studios say they lost to piracy last year
$2.3 billion Share of loss attributed to piracy over the Internet

63% Portion of Americans aged 18 to 24 who couldn't locate Iraq on a world map, according to a survey
50% Portion who couldn't locate New York state

104 Age of Wook Kundor, a Malaysian woman who last week married a 33-year-old man, Muhamad Noor Che Musa
20 Number of previous husbands Wook has had

$24,730 Amount a Chinese businessman, Zhang Cheng, paid for a Soviet MiG-21 jet fighter on eBay. Zhang said he wants the plane as an office decoration, but it's unclear if Chinese authorities will let him import it from the U.S.