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Apr. 6, 1998

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COVER STORY
• War against the Microbes
•     COVER IMAGE: War against the Microbes
•     TABLE: The Warriors
•     TABLE: In the Headlines: The Revenge of the Microbes
•     TABLE: We Have Met the Enemy...
•     PHOTO: Staph Bacteria
•     Sometimes the Answers Are Simple
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Will Microcide's "Targeted Genomics" Pay Off for Patients -- and Investors?

SPECIAL REPORT -- TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• Telecom's New Trailblazers
•     TABLE: The Telecom 100
•     GRAPHIC: The Traditional Networks
•     GRAPHIC: The Converged Networks
•     CHART: Surging Voice Traffic over Converged Networks...Promises Fast-Growing Revenues
•     There's Life after AT&T--and How
•     A Real Gusher in the Pipeline
•     Taking the Net to a Whole Other Level
•     Networks That Do New Tricks
•        TABLE: How Users Benefit
•     The Bell-Heads vs. the Net-Heads
•        TABLE: The Interlopers
•        CHART: Look Who's Talking
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Sprint's Ronald Lemay
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Ameritech's Richard Notebaert
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with AT&T's David Nagel
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with GTE's George Conrades
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Qwest's Joseph Nacchio
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with WorldCom's John Sidgmore
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Intermedia's David Ruberg
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Williams' Frank M Semple

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• Europe's Hotshots (int'l edition)
•     EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Hotshots
•     TABLE: Young Turks Move Up

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
• Can Thailand Turn Around? (int'l edition)
•     ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Can He Turn Around Thailand?
•     CHART: Good News: The Baht Is Strengthening As the Stock Market Is Recovering
•     CHART: And Bad: Interest Rates Remain High and Inflation Is Rising
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Chat with a Reform-Minded Premier
•     Even the King Has to Tighten His Belt (int'l edition)

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• And Now, from the White House, an Ad
• Broadway: The Roar of the Plastic
• The Big Bang Is in Bonds
•     TABLE: Huge Numbers
• Coffee, Tea, or Another Airline?
• Mary Kay's Off-Road Bonus
• So This Moose Says to the Mechanic...
• The Wireless Future Is--Finland?
• CHART: Poison Pill Antidote
• Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
• An Honor for New Media

READERS REPORT
• Aetna Sets the Record Straight
• Becton Dickinson: Safe Needles Are Easy to Find
• The Perils of Making Beauty a Job Qualification
• 'The Toughest Standards in the Nation': Calpers
• Counting the French in Silicon Valley
• Did Geico Get a Bad Rap?

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Palmy days for 3Com?'' (Information Technology, Mar. 16)

BOOKS
• Tilting at the Free-Trade Dragon
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''The Great Betrayal''
• The Business Week Best-Seller List

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Handhelds Still Have a Ways to Go
•     PHOTO: Hewlett-Packard 620LX
• The Professional's Mac
• Concessions to Office 97

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• Let the Marketplace Judge Microsoft

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• The Deficit's Virtuous Circle
•     CHART: Scaling Down Interest Costs
• Why Free Trade Won't Hurt
• Home Sweet Office
•     CHART: No-Shows at the Office
• A Way to Beat the Bank

LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY
• Breathing New Life into an Ailing Art
•     MAP: Mexico

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: Symptoms of the Asian Flu Are Showing Up
•     CHART: The Slowdown in Factory Orders
•     CHART: The Export Slump Is Hitting Services, Too
•     CHART: A Yellow Flag from Service Inflation?
• Israel: No Letup in the Inflation Fight
•     CHART: The Central Bank's Attack on Inflation

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• Clipping Cable's Power
•     TABLE: What Congress Could Do
•     CHART: Zapping Customers
• How Lockheed's Early-Warning System Crashed
• Commentary: Don't Waste a Huge Opportunity in Africa
• Newt Gingrich's 'Goals for a Generation' (Extended)
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Newt Hits the Ground Jogging in Ohio
• Squeezing the OPEC Pipeline
• Microsoft: Let's Not Get Carried Away
•     CHART: Microsoft Stock's Relentless Climb
• Commentary: Java Can Be a Contender--If Sun Lets It
• The Earth Is Shifting under Heavy Equipment
•     CHART: Gray Market's Bigger Bite
• Bertelsmann: Boldly Going Where Others Are Bailing Out
• A Golden Moment for Goldman Sachs?
•     TABLE: Big Deal

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Kim Edwards: End of a Reign at Iomega
• The Beetle and the Crown Jewel
• Watch TV--and Pay the Bills
• The FTC Eyeballs Laser Surgery
• Ratings Services Rush the Net
• Will Teletubbies Travel?
• Et Cetera...
• Pfizer's Potency Play
•     CHART: Pfizer Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• IRS Reform: The GOP Fumbles Its Dream Issue
• Campaign Cleanup?
• Playing Musical Chairs
• Big Brother Al

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Now, It's Reform or Bust in Beijing
•     A Talk with Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo (Extended)
• Can Chuan Turn Thailand Around?
•     TABLE: A Reform-Minded Premier
•     CHART: Good News: The Baht Is Strengthening As the Stock Market Is Recovering
•     CHART: And Bad: Interest Rates Remain High and Inflation Is Rising

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Yeltsin's March Massacre May Clear the Way for Reform

THE CORPORATION
• Disney's Theme-Park Shootout
•     CHART: Disney's Spending Spree...Ignites Theme-Park Profits

FINANCE
• This Mutual Fund Party Is Still Jumping
•     TABLE: The Best Performers
•     TABLE: The Big Funds' Scorecard
•     TABLE: The Worst Performers
•     TABLE: The Bond-Fund Leaders
•     TABLE: The Fund Categories
• Were the Short Sellers Ripped Off?
•     CHART: Slaughter of the Shorts
• Commentary: Bad Quarter? Don't Keep Shareholders Guessing

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Is Citicorp Eyeing Paymentech?
•     CHART: After the Fall
• Recoton's Good Vibrations
• A Lab Pregnant with Possibility
•     CHART: Ready for a Rebirth

BITS & BYTES
• An Offer Writers Cannot Refuse
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Talk with the Father of 'The Godfather'
• From Couch Potatoes to Web Heads
•     CHART: Net Obsession
• Making Sure the Network Works
• Early Tax Refunds Draw Hordes of E-Filers
• Bits & Bytes Contacts

MARKETING
• Godzilla: He's Big. He's Upset. He's Invisible
•     TABLE: What Price Secrecy?

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• For the Smallest Valve, the Secret Is Balance
• Scientific Journal--or Vanity Press?
•     CHART: News Hits Nymox
• These Molecules Are Real Self-Starters
•     PHOTO: Self-Assembled Hollow Spheres
• Developments to Watch Contacts

GOVERNMENT
• The Tax Man Eyes the Net
•     TABLE: Cybertax Solution?

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Going Global: Is It Time to Take the Plunge?
•     TABLE: The Key Points
•     CHART: The Case for Investing Abroad
• A Piece of Real Estate for a Pittance
•     TABLE: Who Offers REIT Trusts
• A Grand Gets You a Lot of PC
•     TABLE: The Computer You Can Buy For...
• Simple Credo, Fancy Results

BUSINESS WEEK INDEX
• Business Week Index
•     CHART: Production Index
•     HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
• The Week Ahead

INVESTMENT FIGURES OF THE WEEK
• Investment Figures of the Week
•     CHART: Mutual Fund Returns
•     CHART: Stocks and Bonds

EDITORIALS
• Let's Not Rush to Tax the Net
• The Lowest-Paid Get a Break at Last
• A Simple Fix for Pension Savings

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ARGENTINA
• Where the Ghosts of War Are Rising...And May Bring Down a Governor (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Argentina

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• What's Ailing China: The Japan Syndrome (int'l edition)
• How Big Are France's Losses to Silicon Valley? (int'l edition)
• Why Germany Seems Doomed to Stagnate (int'l edition)
• The IMF's Medicine Isn't Going Down Easy (int'l edition)
• Trustbusters Need to Crack Northwest's Fortress (int'l edition)
• The Perils of Making Beauty a Job Qualification (int'l edition)
• The Problems at Saturn Aren't Just GM's Fault (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• British Biotech's Falling Star (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Great Promise, Then Pain
• Alcatel Doesn't Look Like an Also-Ran Anymore (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Alcatel's Comeback
•     TABLE: What's In Store

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Business to India's New Rulers: It's Payback Time (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L BUSINESS
• AGI: Snapping Up the Runways (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Big Airport Sell-Offs

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Diving into a Rich Pool in Europe (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Mutual Fund Mania Hits Europe...
•     TABLE: ...And What's Driving The Boom
• Suharto Gives a Little--and Gets a Lot (int'l edition)
•     CHART: The Weak Rupiah
• Commentary: Korea Is Cheering Far Too Soon (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• How Japan Can Restart Its Engine (int'l edition)