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May 4, 1998

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COVER STORY
• The New Stock Traders
•     COVER IMAGE: The New Stock Traders
•     Bruce Ogilvie, 40, Irvine, Calif.
•     Milt Taylor, 71, Naples, Fla.
•     Sue Benac, 45, Atlanta
•     Tushar Shah, 23, New York City
•     Joseph Kast, 31, Salem, Ore.
•     Kathleen Buyers & Ron Milton, Los Altos, Calif.
•     Philip Davis, 31, Pensacola, Fla.
•     How to Make the Net Your Broker
•        TABLE: An Investing Web Site Sampler
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: E*trade: Down Now, but Better Times May Be Coming

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• Brazil's New Look (int'l edition)
•     EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Brazil's New Look
•     CHART: Brazilian Inflation Subsides...And Currency Reserves Rebound...
•     CHART: Cardoso's Tough Policy
•     Commentary: Brazil's Ship Comes In--Thanks to U.S. Bungling (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
• What Hit Hong Kong's Film Industry? (int'l edition)
•     ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Pow! What Hit Hong Kong's Film Industry?
•     TABLE: Slow Fade
•     TABLE: Hong Kong vs. Hollywood
•     Even Jackie Chan Can't Clean Up This Mess (int'l edition) (Extended)

SPECIAL REPORT
• E-Commerce: Good-Bye to Fixed Pricing?
•     TABLE: Playing the Price Is Right
•     TABLE: Diary of a Digital Sale
•     A Cybershopper's Best Friend
•        TABLE: Where the Bots Are

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• Inside Microsoft: A Case of Daughter Dearest?
• Louisville's Pizza Sluggers
• Why Gay Jokes May Make Dresdner Glum
• A Victory for Teen Labor at McDonald's
• Bouquets for Chilean Wine
• Casio's G-Shock: The Watch to Watch
• The Cellular Cockpit?
• CHART: Mars vs. Venus
• Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
• An Online Offer

READERS REPORT
• Don't Look for Scapegoats at Netscape
• Rifkin: The Proper Path for Biotechnology
• The Benefits of Calcium Channel Blockers
• Does the Money Supply Matter Much Anymore?
• In Defense of a Medical Journal

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Sara Lee: Playing with the recipe'' (The Corporation, Apr. 27)
• ''High school Greenspans'' (Economic Trends, Apr. 27)

BOOKS
• From Apple to Sour Grapes
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''On the Firing Line''
• The Business Week Best-Seller List

LETTER FROM PARIS
• Paris' Boulevard De Triomphe
•     MAP: Paris

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Can a Laptop Be Too Fast?
•     TABLE: IBM's ThinkPad 600 Family
•     PHOTO: IBM ThinkPad 600
• A Wide Screen for Tight Spots
• Help Desk
• Web Destinations

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• The Euro Will Turn Europe into a Superpower

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• Danger: Fiscal Stimulus Ahead
•     CHART: Surging State and Local Budget Surpluses
• Overtime vs. New Factories
• More Jobs on the Low End
•     CHART: Job Markets Tighten Across the Board

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: In the First Quarter, El Nino Ruled
•     CHART: Asia's Woes Rain on Exports' Parades
•     CHART: Output Growth Falls Off Sharply
•     CHART: The Banner Quarter for Homebuilders
• Russia: Undeterred by a Trade-Gap Drag
•     CHART: The Trade Balance Is Falling into the Red

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• The Power to Raise Prices
•     TABLE: The Heavy Hitters
•     Alan Greenspan Meets Granny Smith
• Commentary: Mergers: Crack Down on Stupid Accounting Tricks
•     TABLE: When the Plug Is Pulled on ''Pooling''
• BW/HARRIS POLL: Let Microsoft Be Microsoft
• Little Banks Are Sprouting in the Shadow of Giants
•     CHART: A Comeback for Banking's Bantamweights
• Commentary: The Hidden Tax in Your Phone Bill
•     CHART: Around and Around They Go...
• Canadians Feel a Frost at the Border
• Not So United at United These Days
•     TABLE: Thinking Union
• California's Prop 226: A Shot in the Foot?
• Beyond Viagra

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Robert Bork: Laissez-Faire--Up to a Point
• A Bid for Mellon Bank May Get Nasty
• Seagram Un-Scotches a Deal
• China Slams a Door in Amway's Face
• DEC and Intel Bury the Hatchet
• Enron Retreats from California
• Et Cetera...
• Corrections Corp.'s Jail Conversion
•     CHART: Corrections Corp. of America Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• Look Who's Pushing Health-Care Reform Now
• Smoke and Politics

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• ONLINE ORIGINAL: Malaysia: 'The Worst Is Yet to Come'
•     Mahathir Speaks Out (int'l edition)
• Brazil: Sun, Samba--and a Healthy Economy?
•     CHART: Brazilian Inflation Subsides...And Currency Reserves Rebound...
•     CHART: Cardoso's Tough Policy
• Suddenly, Microsoft Is an Ugly American in Japan
•     CHART: Microsoft's Onslaught

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Russia: The Race That Could Launch Lebed
• Israeli Edge for Southern?
• A British Highflier Falters

SOCIAL ISSUES
• Brighter Lights for Big Cities
•     CHART: Economies Are Expanding...As High-Tech Thrives...
•     CHART: ...And Employment Grows...Relieving Poverty
•     TABLE: City Snapshots

THE CORPORATION
• Can Kohler Keep It All in the Family?
•     One Fat Share, One Fat Headache
• Computer Learning Centers: School for Scandal?
•     CHART: CLC: Fast Ride, Fast Slide
• 'Reloads': Stock Options That Keep on Giving
•     TABLE: Why Executives Love Reloads

FINANCE
• When Your Fund Focuses on a Flop
•     TABLE: Where Some Funds Are Concentrated
• Commentary: SEC Regulation That Doesn't Choke Innovation

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Internet Engines That Could Fail
•     GRAPHIC: Murphy's Shorts
• Watching Sunrise for Golden Rays
•     CHART: A Disappointment to the Street
• Tech Stocks That Are Plugged In

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• How Motorola Lost Its Way
•     CHART: As Market Share Has Eroded...Motorola's Profits Have Slid...
•     TABLE: Motorola's History
•     PHOTO: Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin (1940)
•     PHOTO: Motorola Envoy
•     PHOTO: Motorola StarTac 6000
•     TABLE: How Motorola Missed the Mark

BITS & BYTES
• What's Hot on the Coast? Web Raisings
• Mom-And-Pops Belly Up to the Net
•     GRAPHIC: How Small Fry Use the Net
• One Apple Hothead Who's Good for the Barrel
• Virtual Robots for the Virtual World
• Bits & Bytes Contacts

GOVERNMENT
• Morning in America, 1998-Style
•     TABLE: True Believers Then and Now
•     Commentary: Is the GOP the Only Party of Business?

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• Coming Next Month: Better Weather Maps
• The Common Cold Coughs Up a Clue
• A Sharper Look for Those Tiny Screens
• Green Thumbs in Orbit
• Developments to Watch Contacts

MANAGEMENT
• A Talk with Ford's Alex Trotman

MARKETING
• Dilbert to the Rescue at Office Depot
•     CHART: Another Best-Seller?

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Financial Supermarkets Aren't So Super
•     TABLE: Who Offers What
• Why Drugstore Chains Are in Good Health
•     TABLE: Rx for Growth?
• Commentary: Don't Let Fear of Taxes Hold You Back
•     TABLE: Symptoms of Bracketphobia
• Has Your Portfolio Gotten Top-Heavy?
•     TABLE: Time to Shift Assets

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
• Does America Have a Bubble Economy? No
• There's More Than One Party of Business

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON SINGAPORE
• Hunting for Talent Around the Globe...While Sweating Out the Asian Flu (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Indonesia

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• Microsoft and Free Choice (int'l edition)
• The Problem with Letting the Markets Decide (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Unilever Finally Knows Where It's Going: East (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Unilever Cleans House
• The Woman Making over Belgium's Grande Dame (int'l edition)
• The Russian Whiz Kid Who Ran Too Fast (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: An Entrepreneur's Marketing Whirl

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Chinese Telecom Reform: Busy Signal? (int'l edition)
• For Sale: Big South Korean Company, Workers Chained to the Door (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Loud Cheers Abroad for Funds (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: The Best Funds...
•     TABLE: ...The Worst Funds
•     TABLE: How the Biggest Funds Fared
• Invaders from the North (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Canadian Bankers' Global Push

INTERNATIONAL -- PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Asia: A Nice (Cheap) Place to Visit (int'l edition)
• A Buying Spree in Once-Pricey Seoul (int'l edition)
•     Travel Tip (int'l edition)
• Golf: The Fairest of the Fairways (int'l edition)
•     Travel Tip (int'l edition)
• Tracing a Royal Road in Rajasthan (int'l edition)
•     Travel Tip (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• Brazil's Next Step: Free Trade (int'l edition)