Milestones

By Melissa August; Clare Beams; Elizabeth L. Bland; William Han; Jonathan Rick; Elizabeth Sampson

RETIRING. SMARTY JONES, 3, the unassuming chestnut colt that created legions of new horse-racing fans with his effortless wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and a near-miss for the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes; to a breeding farm, after he was found to have bruised ankles; in Philadelphia.

ARRESTED. MARK HACKING, 28, husband of missing brokerage assistant Lori Hacking; on one count of aggravated murder; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hacking claimed his wife had disappeared after going out for a run. After his arrest, his brother Scott told the Salt Lake Tribune that Mark had confessed the murder to him late last month.

RELEASED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 42, former sixth-grade teacher convicted of child rape for her ongoing sexual relationship with then 12-year-old Vili Fualaau; after serving more than seven years in state prison; in Gig Harbor, Wash. LeTourneau and Fualaau, now 21, will be allowed to see each other now that the judge in the case has rescinded a court order that barred them from doing so.

RECOVERING. STEVE JOBS, 49, CEO of Apple Computer; from cancer surgery; in Cupertino, Calif. He announced the details of his condition--a rare but treatable form of pancreatic cancer--via a company-wide email in which he noted, "I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an AirPort Express."

DIED. ALEXANDRA SCOTT, 8, spunky young cancer patient whose front-yard lemonade stand grew to a national, million-dollar charity research fund; of cancer of the nervous system; in Philadelphia.

DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a troubled personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault and a 10year addiction to cocaine; of natural causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by drugs. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery.

DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, Vietnam reporter for the New York Times and author of Winners & Losers, an award-winning memoir of the war; an apparent suicide; in New York City. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson later said she went to Vietnam because "they ran out of men." She focused on personal stories of the war, including tales of soldiers dying, which affected her deeply. "It all becomes normal, the other correspondents, men, would say. In time you'll see," she wrote. "They lied." Suffering from Parkinson's disease, she left behind a self-penned obituary.

DIED. DON TOSTI, 81, hard-driving bandleader who inspired a Latin-music craze in the '40s with the tune Pachuco Boogie; in Palm Springs, Calif. Originally a violinist for the El Paso Symphony, he played bass in jazz combos led by Jimmy Dorsey and Jack Teagarden. But it was his fusion of boogie, blues, swing and Latin beats that propelled him to become the first Latin artist to sell a million records in the U.S.

DIED. VIRGINIA GREY, 87, ubiquitous Hollywood supporting actress who made her film debut as Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1927 and went on to co-star with everyone from Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan's New York Adventure to Rock Hudson in All That Heaven Allows; in Los Angeles.

DIED. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, 95, pioneering photojournalist who helped transform black-and-white photography into a high art; in the south of France. (See page 86.)