In another dog-bites-man story, Bill Gates once again tops Fortune's Richest 400 list this year. The list, released last week, has a couple of new features this year. Visitors can see how many thousands of millions America's wealthiest lost between August 27, 2001 and September 24, 2001 (Bill Gates: 7,200 million). Interactive maps show national distribution of the richest Americans. Users must...

_Forbes_ (discussed in the May 10, 1996 Scout Report) provides this web site to complement its article, "The Global Power Elite," in the July 28, 1997 issue of the magazine. From the Sultan of Brunei ($38 billion) to Rem Viakhirev ($1.1 billion), 200 billionaires and some not-quite-billionaires (heavy hitters) can be searched by any of seven variables, or browsed by net worth, country, or name. ...