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After seeing previously undisclosed (and unremarkable) security camera video of Diana and Al Fayed and receiving details about that fatal night during briefings in London last week, the six women and five men accompanied Judge Baker to Paris Monday to get a firsthand view of the route that led the couple to their deaths. That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips...
...familiar than most Chinese with the way the country's authorities ensure that "troublemakers" don't interrupt the Communist Party's carefully managed productions. But as he walked to his car after leaving his law office on September 29, Li had little idea he was about to get a firsthand demonstration of how jumpy the police can be. It may not be spring, but something else was on the calendar...
...firsthand view of the new Great Game, James Graff, our London-based senior editor, journeyed to the village of Resolute in Canada's remote Nunavut territory, where the Canadian government plans to build a military training center to safeguard the coming economic bounty. And our Berlin bureau chief, Andrew Purvis, set off for the isolated Norwegian outpost of Hammerfest, a template for future Arctic boomtowns...
...from Mayor Ray Nagin to jazz great Terence Blanchard, I learned that New Orleanians were deeply disturbed by the pace of reconstruction and how that effort was being ignored by the rest of America. From the boat tour we took of the waterways outside the city, where we saw firsthand how human activity was destroying the wetlands, to the plane ride that revealed how oil and gas canals had changed the ecology of the area, we discovered a city that is still vulnerable to disaster...
...search sites today is ZoomInfo, which in June got 824,000 unique visitors in the U.S., according to comScore Media Metrix. Focused on business profiles, it currently has 37 million of them posted online, which it culls using its own natural language search technology. Inaccuracies abound, as I learned firsthand when I checked my own profile and saw that everything from my telephone number to my full name were flat out wrong. "We're the first to admit that they are not 100% accurate," says ZoomInfo COO Bryan Burdick, who estimates that only 500,0000 - just 1% - of the profiles...