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COVER STORY
• Japan's Real Crisis
•     COVER IMAGE: Japan's Real Crisis
•     TABLE: Japan's Debt Trap
•     TABLE: What Needs To Be Done
•     Commentary: Why America Won't Be Next
•        CHART: One Bubble or Two?
•     Commentary: Why Japan Won't Act to Save Itself
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: The Crisis Hits Home in Hokkaido
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Clyde Prestowitz: Views from an Old Japan Trade Hawk
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Invest in Japan? It's Not out of the Question

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• Daimler & Chrysler (int'l edition)
•     EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Daimler and Chrysler
•     TABLE: Global Motors
•     PHOTO: 1998 Mercedes-Benz SLK
•     PHOTO: 1998 Chrysler Durango
•     RESUME: Jurgen E. Schrempp
•     RESUME: Robert J. Eaton
•     Commentary: A Giant Leap for the New Europe

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• Gas Stations: Next, They'll Be Offering Green Stamps
• Vino Si, Viagra No
•     PHOTO: Henry Wendt of Quivira Vineyards
• Did the Feds Nudge Out a Labor Boss?
• Somebody Still Loves Detroit
•     TABLE: Loyalty Leaders
• From White House to Our House?
•     PHOTO: Brochure for Dione Card Readers Featuring Hillary Clinton
• Nice Guys Finish with MBAs
• The Decline and Fall of the Slide
• CHART: How to Balance the Budget
• Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
• Tale of a Titan

READERS REPORT
• Why Big Banks May Mean Big Problems
• Safer in a Sport-Ute? Think Again, Boomers
• Science Can't Fathom the Beauty of a Bach Fugue
• The Verdict Is Already In: Class Size Matters
• Why Rich Folks File Late
• Is It Any Wonder That the CEO's Paycheck Is So Big?
• Microfilm: Here Today, Here Tomorrow

BOOKS
• How an $82 Million Painting Got That Way
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''Portrait of Dr. Gachet''

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• Good-Bye, Tollbooths and Traffic Jams?

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• It's the 'early-April Effect'
• A Risky Dearth of Dividends
•     CHART: Market Conundrum: Waning Dividend Payouts
• More Freshmen Want the Money
•     CHART: Shifting Views of College Freshmen

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Win98: Jump in for a Spin
•     TABLE: What to Do about Windows 98
• Power at a Good Price
•     PHOTO: Dell Dimension XPS R Series
• Web Destinations
• Help Desk

LETTER FROM EUROPE
• English Spoken Here--and Here, and Here...

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: The Economy Looks Ready to Take a Breather
•     CHART: Compensation Growth Is Creeping Higher
•     CHART: Is Foreign Demand Crawling Back Up?
•     CHART: Inventory Gains Outrun Demand Again
• France: Growth As Far As the Eye Can See
•     CHART: Capacity Use Hits an Eight-Year High

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• The Cops Converge on Microsoft
•     GRAPHIC: Microsoft Windows 98
•     TABLE: The Feds' Two-Pronged Attack
•     You're the Next Target, Intel
•     Commentary: Bill Gates: Emperor of High Tech, Sultan of Spin
•     Win98: Tiptoeing into a Store Near You
•        TABLE: Win98 Has Lots of New Features
• Carmakers May Be Flooding the Engine
• Commentary: Of Mice, Men, and Cancer Cures
• Corporate America vs. the Religious Right?

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Ivan Seidenberg: Bell Atlantic Rings in the New
• At a New Behemoth, Blood on the Floor
• Allstate Suffers a Seismic Fed Search
• U S West Targets Long Distance
• IBM: Remember the Mainframe!
• Mickey D Gets a New Chief
• Et Cetera...
• Polygram: The Upbeat
•     CHART: Polygram Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• U.S.-Russian Relations Are Headed for Siberia
• Silicon-Savvy Senate
• Conventional Politics

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Psst! Want a Nice Piece of a Chaebol?
•     Doing a Bang-Up Business in Korea
•        CHART: A Noodlemaker Beats the Index
• Why New Delhi Is Picking on Pepsi
• Consumer Sizzle Could Overcook Mexico's Economy
•     CHART: Shoppers Buoy Growth

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Will a New Breed of Strongman Undermine Latin Democracy?
• A Boost for Berezovsky?
• Indonesia: Austerity Hurts

BOOK EXCERPT
• The Monopoly That Went Too Far
•     Endgame
•        PHOTO: Cover, ''Titan''
•        PHOTO: A Standard Oil Filling Station in North Dakota, 1915

SPORTS BUSINESS
• Can Money Buy You a Lower Handicap?
•     Lively Balls Make for a Lively Debate

THE CORPORATION
• Air Bags Are Deflating Trw
•     CHART: TRW's Auto Earnings Stall Out

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• The Latest from the Labs: Human Skin
•     PHOTO: Apligraf Skin Grafting Material Developed by Organogenesis Inc.
•     GRAPHIC: Growing Skin: From the Lab...
•     GRAPHIC: ...To the Clinic

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• A Tiny Trampoline to Gauge Magnetism
• Hey, Kids--Let's Build a Lego Robot
•     PHOTO: Lego Toy Tractor
• Giving Explosives a 'signature'
• Innovations
• Developments to Watch Contacts

MARKETING
• Is Nothing Sacred in the Ad Game?
•     PHOTO: Anti-Tobacco Ad

FINANCE
• P-E's Aren't As Loony As They Look
•     CHART: P-E Ratios Are Way Up, But Interest Rates Are Down and Inflation Has Dwindled
• Commentary: How the SEC Is Passing the Buck on Microcaps
• What's Making K-Tel Boogie?
•     CHART: K-Tel's Sudden Surge
• Commentary: When Banks Act Like Brokers, Who Regulates?

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Prowlers at Pittston Brinks?
•     CHART: An Offer May Set Off Alarms
• Lauder Is Picking Up Lots of Phones
•     CHART: Suddenly, a Global Network
• Furniture Going Cheap

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Vying to Be a Site for More Eyes
•     TABLE: The Scramble for Portal Partners
• U S West Scouts a New Frontier
•     TABLE: Dialing Up Digital Services

BITS & BYTES
• Howard Stern's Net Muscle
• How Healthy Are Your Laptops?
• Big Blue's Little Book of Idea Boosters
• An Online Guard to Keep Workers in Line
• Bits & Bytes Contacts

ENVIRONMENT
• Wind Power's Happy Premium
•     TABLE: Where Wind Is Picking Up

MANUFACTURING
• Design Software That Makes Complexity Look Simple
•     So, You Want to Build an Airliner
•        GRAPHIC: How Quantum Leap Works

CORPORATE SCOREBOARD
• Profits: Torrid Turns Tepid in the First Quarter
•     TABLE: The Winners and the Losers
•     A Spotlight on First-Quarter Profits
•        CHART: Industries with the Biggest Dollar Change in the Quarter
•     CHART: Aftertax Profits Quarter by Quarter
•     Here Come Hefty Hikes in Benefits
•        CHART: Benefit Costs Rise Again
•     TABLE: 1998 First-Quarter Corporate Profits (.pdf)

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Adoptions: From Russia--with Red Tape
•     TABLE: What to Ask Before Adopting Abroad
•     TABLE: Where to Go for Advice
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: TABLE: The World of Adoption
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: In Russia, Mixed Feelings About Foreign Adoptions
•        ONLINE ORIGINAL: TABLE: Who Adopts Whom in Russia
• 'Junk Bonds Have Grown Up'
•     TABLE: The Pros' Junk Plays
• PC Hell, Part II: I've Got Company
• Growth Engine

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
• Lessons from Our Fast-Changing World

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON UKRAINE
• Where Importers Live a Nightmare...And Locals Choke on Corruption (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Ukraine

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITOR'S MEMO
• The Right Stuff (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• Rabid Mercantilists? Not the Japanese (int'l edition)
• Digital Storage on Cd: Safer Than You Think? (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• It'll Be a Bumpy Ride for Europe's Central Bank (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Three Nightmares the ECB Could Face
• In Europe, a Sudden Shower of Seed Money (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: The Hot Markets for New Shares
•     TABLE: Who Is Getting Venture Capital?

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Why New Delhi Is Picking on Pepsi (int'l edition)
• Can the Jockey Club Put on a Burst of Speed? (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Leveling Out at the Club

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Fidelity Takes on the World (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Where Fidelity Is on the Move
•     TABLE: Rivals in Europe
• Commentary: The Closer You Get, the Worse India's Banks Look (int'l edition)





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