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Ziegler remembers a story for which three reporters spent two months investigating a questionable manslaughter conviction. Mitchell recalls being given a month to work on a story that detailed how Rochester was undercounted in the U.S. census. And Michael Cortz, now at the Chicago Tribune, says he spent six or seven months investigating improprieties by newspaper book reviewers--including reviewers at Gannett papers...
...Thirteen million Africans have already died of AIDS, and 10 million more are expected to die within five years. In South Africa, 1 in 5 adults is infected; in Botswana the rate of infection is 1 in 3; in Zimbabwe it is 1 in 4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2003, AIDS-related deaths will slow population growth in some of these nations to zero, and the population in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa will actually start to decline. Life expectancy by the end of the decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa...
According to the 1999 census, Paris is losing population, while up-and-coming centers like Toulouse, Lyons and Lille are gaining. The southwest is currently France's fastest-growing region. Analysts attribute the shift to quality-of-life issues, a discovery of the cultural richness of the provinces and a resurgence of regional identity--all aided by technological advances that offer workers and companies an unprecedented degree of mobility. "If you are a successful start-up in Bordeaux or Toulouse in the technology field," says economist and author Alain Minc, "the question for the boss is whether to stay...
...their number on speed dial). But if you've picked up Rolling Stone, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the New York Times Magazine or the hip new business magazine Fast Company, if you've strolled through the Guggenheim or Whitney museum, if you've dutifully filled out the 2000 Census form or watched ESPN, you've seen a sampling of the 500 original typefaces they've designed...
...visits his wife and two daughters in Chicago on weekends. Unlike some others in the Administration, Daley likes to throw on a tux and socialize with the Washington establishment. A colleague recalls Daley's sunny disposition failing him only once, when a G.O.P. House member suggested that the Census shouldn't be allowed to use a sampling technique because creating phantom people ran in the Daley family, a reference to the charge that as mayor, William's father raided Chicago's cemeteries for J.F.K. votes in 1960. Daley usually gets along with the opposing party. Rich Williamson, the Illinois G.O.P...