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July 20, 1998




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COVER STORY
 How to Retire
    COVER IMAGE: How to Retire
    The New Math of Retirement
       TABLE: Asset Allocation Helpers
       TABLE: Retire Later and Reap the Rewards
       The Godfather of Index Funds
    Making the Money Last--and Then Some
       TABLE: How To Keep Your Income Flowing
       TABLE: Reverse Mortgage Resources
    Funds That Change with You
       TABLE: These Funds Follow You to Retirement
    BW/HARRIS POLL: Nothing Retiring About These Retirees (Extended)
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Covering the Hefty Tab for Long-Term Care
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: A TALK WITH TIAA-CREF'S INVESTMENT HONCHO (with audio)
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: For Investors: A Stock That Could Ride the Age Wave
    Commentary: What's Left for the Late-Blooming Boomer?
       CHART: A Looming Threat to the Stock Market?
    Where Silver-Haired Surfers Browse
       TABLE: Net Resources If You're Retired...Or Thinking About Retirement
    Products That Make Life User-Friendly Again
       TABLE: It's Not All High-Tech
    When a Home Near the Fifth Hole Isn't Enough
       TABLE: Making Your Move Online
       TABLE: College Towns
       TABLE: Job Meccas
       TABLE: Urban Hot Spots
    Far from the Tour-Bus Crowd
       TABLE: Mapping Out Adventure Travel
    For Athletes, the Glory Days Aren't over Yet
       TABLE: Want To Compete? Here's Where to Start
    Late-Blooming Scholars
       TABLE: Advice to the Senior Class
       ONLINE ORIGINAL: TABLE: States That Give Senior Students a Break, or Not
    First Steps to a Second Career
       TABLE: Online Career Assistance
    Anyone Want to Lend a Hand?
       TABLE: Helping Others
       Commentary: Jimmy Carter: The Best Years of Our Lives
 
INTERNATIONAL -- COVER STORY
 Steven Spielberg: The Storyteller (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 Express Flight to Phoenix, Please
 Wake Up and Smell the High-Tech Job Offer
 Recipe for a Cordon Bleu Chip
 A Smooth Road for Senator Pothole
 Big Tobacco: Not Smoking in Dixie
 You've Got Mail, and Mail, and Mail...
 The Doctor Is In--the Plant
 CHART: The Case of the Disappearing Costs
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 Slings and Arrows for Barnes & Noble
 Only 24 Teams, Please, in Major League Baseball
 Where Good Doctors Make Good Managers, Too
 Was Al Dunlap a One-Trick CEO?
 Skill Shortages: Don't Forget Communication
 The Golden Era of Web Shopping? Dream On
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Party stores are having a blast'' (Marketing, June 22)
 
BOOKS
 America Online: Often Down, Never Out
    PHOTO: Cover, ''aol.com''
 Risky Business
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Seeing Tomorrow''
 Talking Plain at Continental
    PHOTO: Cover, ''From Worst to First''
 
LETTER FROM MASSACHUSETTS
 Where Paternalism Equals Good Business
    MAP: Massachusetts
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 How Microsoft Lets You Build Your Own Browser
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Check Out My Homemade Browser
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Microsoft and Open Standards: Dialog with a Reader
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Daimler Has to Steer the Chrysler Merger
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 Americans Turn to Real Estate
    CHART: A Shift in Investment Strategy
 Bank Mergers: Who Benefits?
 Economic News That Isn't News
    CHART: Indicators That Move the Markets
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: Was That a Speed Bump or Something Bigger?
    CHART: A Key Sign of a Weak Second Quarter
    CHART: Where Wage Growth Is Taking Off
    CHART: Detroit's Summer Sales Bonanza
 Brazil: Walking an Interest-Rate High Wire
    CHART: Unemployment Hits a 15-Year High
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Click Here for Wacky Valuations
    CHART: Plenty of Lift
    CHART: Beyond the Euphoria, Value?
    Commentary: Net Stocks: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Market
 Where's the Dreaded Spike in Health Costs?
    CHART: Health Inflation Remains Tame...Insurers Can't Raise Rates...And Profits Are Scarce
 Social Security: And Now for the Liberal Fix
 A Yellow Warning for Banks
    CHART: As Risky Lending Rises...Spreads Respond
 Commentary: Nag, Nag, Nag. What Else Can Bob Rubin Do?
 The Teamsters: Road Hazard for an IPO
 Man Overboard at Manpower
 Battle for the Cleveland Browns
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Tina Brown's New Look: Mouse Ears
 Shaking Up Motorola
 Dow Makes a Deal on Implants
 Microsoft Goes into Virtual Realty
 Chancellor's Huge Media Move
 A French Howl over the Tower
 Et Cetera...
 Jumping Beans at Starbucks
    CHART: Starbucks Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Jane Henney: The Right Prescription for the Fda?
 The Gop's China Envy
 Divided We Stand?
 Sky Cops Get Shot Down
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Banking: Asia's Big Cleanup Begins
    TABLE: Fixing Asia's Banks
 Commentary: Taiwan's Best Defense against Beijing
 Europe Makes Way for Ge Capital
    CHART: GE Capital's European Bonanza
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 South Africa: Disturbing Signs of Disarray After Mandela
 Pakistan Debt Moratorium?
 Mexico Cuts Outlays Again
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 Patents: Suddenly Detroit Has a Huge New Bill to Pay
 Barnyard Biotech Breeds High Hopes
    TABLE: A Brief History of Clones
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 Tiny Bacteria May Give Rise to Kidney Stones
 Man's Best Friend--and No Scooper Needed
    PHOTO: Sony Robot Dog
 For the E.R., Help in a Heartbeat
 On a Fast Track to Stop Train Wrecks
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 How the Internet Works: All You Need to Know
    TABLE: Top Internet Backbone Companies
    GRAPHIC: What Worries the Feds (.pdf)
 For Women, Ivillage Is a Site of Their Own
    TABLE: A Tour of iVillage
 
MEDIA
 Will the Nielsen Spin-Off Be a Hit?
    TABLE: How Nielsen Rates
 
THE CORPORATION
 Just for Feet Is Making Tracks
    CHART: Just For Feet's Fast Break
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Commentary: Goodwill Doesn't Make for Good Games
    TABLE: Ted's Folly
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 An Even Sharper Edge on Gillette
 Rip-Roaring Earnings at Tyco
    CHART: The Stock Is Robust, Too
 Wavephore Pops Up in Windows 98
    CHART: But It's Hardly through the Roof
 
MARKETING
 Great Ad! What's It For?
    PHOTO: Oldsmobile Wordless Ad
    PHOTO: Foot Locker Ad
 
GOVERNMENT
 Commentary: Sky-High Airfares: How to Bring Them Down
    TABLE: Gouging Passengers?
 
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
 Get Ready for the Slowdown
 More Choices for Retiring Boomers
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON MEXICO
 Fancy Coffee Brings Hope to Chiapas...And Planting Trees May Help, Too (int'l edition)
    MAP: Mexico
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 Asian Stars Counted--and Missed (int'l edition)
 In Europe's Economies, the State Is Still King (int'l edition)
 The Golden Age of Online Shopping? Dream on (int'l edition)
 Brainy Cars Make for a Boring Ride (int'l edition)
 Wives Work Because They're Better Educated (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''An Expo Speeds the Pace of Change...'' (Spotlight on Portugal, June 29) (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 Twilight of the Teller? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Customers Are Getting Wired
 Will Zeneca Get an Offer It Can't Refuse? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Why Everyone's High on Zeneca
 A French Chef's Stock in Every Pot? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 Indonesia's Banks Are Gasping for Air (int'l edition)
    Bank Indonesia's Chief: 'Everybody Has to Be Blamed' (int'l edition)
 Let a Million Netizens Bloom (int'l edition)
    TABLE: A Snapshot of China Internet
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
 Sewing Up a Storm South of the Rio Grande (int'l edition)
    CHART: Mexico's Booming Rag Trade
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
 Commentary: Europe's One-Stop Bourse? Don't Hold Your Breath (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 What's Holding Up Asian Bank Reform? (int'l edition)



 
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