Her hand luggage was X-rayed along with her coat and camera bag, while she walked through a scanner.

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Her family thinks her free-spirited nature may be the reason she walked through a field popular with transients -- a field she'd been warned to stay away from and where her body was found February 22.

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She came to India to see places such as the Taj Mahal, and although she encountered beggars on the street, she never would have walked through Paharganj by herself.

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Escorted to our room by an elegant receptionist, the folds of whose sari swished across the checkered marble floor as she walked, we passed through a library lined with teak and rosewood bookshelves and furnished with a table inlaid with marquetry of breathtaking intricacy and skill.

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"We walked through and did not have to take our shoes off, " she said.

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When I walked into her room a half-hour later, she was sitting on her bed flipping through a picture book.

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The Alaska governor walked through the nearly empty hall and spent about 10 minutes checking out the podium where she'll give her acceptance speech as McCain's vice presidential nominee.

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