Milestones May 2, 2005

Retiring. Lance Armstrong, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer in the late 1990s, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body. "It's not an old man's race," he said.

Pleaded guilty. Zacarias Moussaoui, 36, self-described al-Qaeda conspirator and the only person in the U.S. charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks; after a judge declared him fit to stand trial, the culmination of more than three years of legal maneuvering that included a...

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