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COVER STORY
• Amazon.com: The Wild World of E-Commerce
•     COVER IMAGE: Amazon.com: The Wild World of E-Commerce
•     TABLE: Amazon's Growing Universe
•     TABLE: Amazon's Amazing Valuation
•     TABLE: Stacking Up the Amazon Advantage
•     'Technology, Technology, Technology'
•     The Torrent of Energy behind Amazon
•        RESUME: Jeffrey P. Bezos
•     Internet Stocks: What's Their Real Worth?
•        TABLE: Valuing an Internet Stock
•        Where the Big Boys Fear to Tread
•           TABLE: Small Investors Drive the Net Stock
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: Barnes & Noble: A Better Stock Play?

EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• The Euro: Are You Ready? (int'l edition)
•     EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: The Euro: Are You Ready?
•     TABLE: The Milestones on the Road to Monetary Union
•     TABLE: What The Euro Will Be Worth
•     Where the Big Bang Will Be Deafening (int'l edition)
•        TABLE: A Weekend of Fast Work
•     Ready, Set--Retool (int'l edition)
•        TABLE: How Companies Will Get Euro-Ready
•     'This Is Going to Be an Earthquake'
•        TABLE: Why The Euro Gives Retailers Nightmares

ASIAN COVER STORY
• Showdown in Korea (int'l edition)
•     ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Showdown in Korea
•     TABLE: How the Top Chaebol Dominate...And How They Keep Expanding

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• Not Banking on Bankruptcy--Yet
• A Penny Earned Is a Penny Fudged?
•     TABLE: One Cent Per Share Is the Magic Number
• Grad Students vs. California
• The Next Spielberg May Be in the Arcade
•     PHOTO: Still From ''Oddworld''
• Holding the Fries--at the Border
• Bicycles Built for Bargain Hunters
• Lift Tickets That Defy Gravity
• CHART: The Job-Huntin' Blues
• Footnotes

READERS REPORT
• Replaying the Corporate Numbers Game
• When 'Vocational School' Is a Misnomer
• Minimum Wages for Minimum Skills
• Taiwan's Governing Party Isn't Picking Any Fights

BOOKS
• The Best Business Books of 1998
•     TABLE: The Top 10

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Trapping Y2K Bugs--on Your PC
• Hey, Keyboard Fans...
• ...And Pager Slaves

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• Why the Wage Gap Just Keeps Getting Bigger

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• Wanted: Black Entrepreneurs
•     CHART: Discrimination in the Credit Markets?
• Toting Up the Peace Dividend
•     CHART: Military Spending Levels Off
• Red-Faced over Social Security

LETTER FROM THE HAGUE
• A War-Crimes Trial That Nobody Watched
•     MAP: The Netherlands

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: Merry Christmas and an Iffy New Year
•     CHART: Home Sales Hold at a High Level
•     CHART: The Disconnect between Spending and Income
•     CHART: Purchasers Say Output Weakens Sharply
• Chile: Decline of a Latin Fortress?
•     CHART: Growth Slips to an Eight-Year Low

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• Tremors from Cheap Oil
•     TABLE: Bringing Together Leaders in Technology
•     TABLE: The World's Top 10 Oil Companies
•     Why Trustbusters Are Busy Even When Prices Fall
• Y2K Is Worse Than Anyone Thought
•     TABLE: The Tab Is Rising
•     Attention, Shoppers: The World Is About to Close
•     Commentary: Then There's the Cost of Fixing the Fixes...
• Citi: Lax Habits Triggered Trouble
•     DIAGRAM: Following the Money Trail
• Miracle on Most Every Street
•     CHART: Christmas Cheer
• Commentary: Could 'Luxury Fever' Make the Economy Sick?

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Paul Allen: A Matchmaker for Cable and the Net
• Boeing's Asia Excuse Wears Thin
• A Blow against Implant Lawsuits
• No Promises for Steelworkers
• Satellite TV Gains Some High Ground
• Kellogg Keeps Its Head--So Far
• Et Cetera...
• Sharper's Fatter Image
•     CHART: Sharper Image Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• The Senate: A Revolt That May Be Good for Business
• The DNC Chief Quits
• Mccain Booster
• netreg@virginia.gov

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Showdown in Seoul
•     TABLE: How the Top Chaebol Dominate...And How They Keep Expanding

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Are Saddam's Enemies Finally Tightening the Noose?
• Will the U.S. Aid Azerbaijan?
• Quebec Separatism Survives

GOVERNMENT
• Steve Grossman: A Democrat Who's All Business
•     CHART: National Debts

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• Frozen Gas: The World's Next Power Surge?
•     DIAGRAM: Tapping into Gas Hydrates
•     PHOTO: Burning Gas Hydrates
•     PHOTO: Frozen Gas Hydrates

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• A Giant Stick for Mankind
•     PHOTO: The Centurion Flying Wing
• Set Phasers on Raw Pork
• You're to Blame for the Weather
• Innovations

THE CORPORATION
• Whirlpool: In the Wringer
•     CHART: Whirlpool Cools Off in Brazil
• Lands' End Tacks Again
•     CHART: Revolving CEOs Have Left Profits Erratic...And Hurt Lands' End Stock

MEDIA
• What ABC Needs Is Home Improvement
•     RESUME: Robert Iger
•     TABLE: ABC's Blues
• Must-See TV for Left-Handed Men under 30

FINANCE
• Met Life's Fighter Pilot
•     TABLE: Benmosche's Battle Plan
•     TABLE: How the Proposed Metlife Trust Would Work
•     TABLE: Trailing the Pack
•     PHOTO: Robert Benmosche at a Corporate Retreat in Puerto Rico

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Fingerhut Gets a Grip on the Net
•     CHART: A Surge at Thanksgiving
• AT&T Could Bring New Zing to Tci
• A Breath of Fresh Air for Inhale
•     CHART: Heady Days after the Pact

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Buy.com: Anything You Sell, I Can Sell Cheaper
•     TABLE: Buy.com on the Move
• Foreign Telcos Are Speed-Dialing into the U.S.
•     TABLE: The British (the Mexicans and the Japanese) Are Coming

BITS & BYTES
• Big Blue Finds a Better Way to Block Hackers
• Making E-Books Easier on the Eyes
• Little Guys Still Say No to the Net
•     TABLE: Cyber-Nots?
• A Pen That Can E-Mail Your John Hancock
•     PHOTO: InMotion's E-Pen
• Bits & Bytes Contacts

INDUSTRIES
• The New Alchemy at Ici
•     TABLE: ICI's Formula

MARKETING
• Revving Up Japan's Also-Ran Autos
•     TABLE: Cars in Search of Personalities

SPORTS BUSINESS
• How Nordictrack Lost Its Footing

ENVIRONMENT
• Hook, Line, and Extinction
•     TABLE: Tackling the Global Fishing Crisis

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Fear Not All Hedge Funds
•     TABLE: Choices for Fund Investors
• Should You Plug into a Ge Fund?
•     TABLE: A Mixed Performance
• A Big Score in Little Banks?
•     TABLE: Lenders with Appeal
• Minivans: Finally, Honda Gets It Right
•     TABLE: Sizing Up the Competition
•     PHOTO: 1999 Toyota Sienna
•     PHOTO: 1999 Ford Windstar
•     PHOTO: 1999 Honda Odyssey
•     PHOTO: 1999 Dodge Caravan

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
• Exxon Mobil Meets Amazon.com
• Don't Undermine the Euro

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON VENEZUELA
• A Wasteland 'full of Diamonds'...But Short on Indoor Plumbing (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Venezuela

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Building Euro Empires (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: How Pinault Could Make Bouygues a Media Star
• A Talk with Germany's Economic Guru (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Taiwan: Is This Tiger Badly Wounded, Too? (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Panic at Taichung Bank
• Dangerous Skies over Delhi (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• Time for Chaebol to Face Reality (int'l edition)





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