Cover Photo Illustration by Aaron Goodman. International Cover Photograph by Andrew Wong/Reuters.
May 24, 1999
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FRONTIER -- IN BOX
Your Taxes at Work
Body and Sell
TABLE: Jesse ''The Marketer'' Ventura
A Webster's for the Web
How Big of Them
TABLE: Don't Bank on It
Youth Movements
CHART: While Start Ups Decline...Young Companies Invest More
Frontier Online
FRONTIER -- TRENDS
On the Tech Tightrope
CHART: Are You Keeping Up?
Borrowing Binge
CHART: Drizzly Day Fund
An Expensive Freebie
Vanishing Voices
FRONTIER -- WHAT'S HOT
The Sultan of Stats
Time to Hire Seniors?
FRONTIER -- WHAT WORKS
Healthy Choice
Smart Answers
FRONTIER -- DIGITAL MANAGER
Doing a Great Show
TABLE: Projection Collection
FRONTIER -- FEATURES
Wrestling with the Web
TABLE: Tips from the Trenches
TABLE: Everything You Need
Sporting Goods in the North Woods
TABLE: Northland Marine
A Cataloger's Next Realm
TABLE: Master Communications
Of Art, Golf, and the Web
TABLE: Taba Inc.
Novelty Becomes Necessity
TABLE: Meetings Plus
Star Search
TABLE: Building a Board
TABLE: Aiming for the Stars
Just Rewards
TABLE: A Wealth of Choices
FRONTIER -- MY COMPANY
Firing Up the Team
FRONTIER -- UNDER 30
Delivery Man
EDITOR'S MEMO
Portfolio Power
UP FRONT
Talk Show
B&N: No Amazon Killer Yet
Silicon Valley Days for a Texan
A Break--54 Years after the Death Camps
Nailed to the Boards Again
NBC's Nuke Launch Gets Shot Down
PHOTO: NBC's Atomic Train Miniseries
Less Downtime for the Continent
The Hamptons of the 21st Century?
PHOTO: The Hope & Glory Inn
CHART: Where Service is Deteriorating
Footnotes
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
David Wetherell: Netting Some Winners
First Web Auctions, Now This
Bill Gross to Pointcast's Rescue
Serves 'Em Right for Overcharging?
TPG Adds Chips to Its Tech Diet
A Merge in the Racetrack
Et Cetera...
Immunex: No Pain, Big Gain
CHART: Immunex Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Banking Reform or Bust: Senator Gramm Ups the Ante
FEC to Allow E-Fund-Raising
If You Can't Beat 'Em...
Top Guns for Electric Dereg
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Yeltsin's Power Play Sends Tremors Around the World
Germany's New Banker
Mexican Media Tycoons
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
This Cute Little Pet Is a Robot
TABLE: Sony's New Bots Can...But They Still Can't...
PHOTO: Masahiro Fujita with His Prototype Pet Robot
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
A Wireless Wide Web?
How Johnny Could Learn Calculus
The Subtle Art of Protein Origami
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
GOVERNMENT
Tug-of-Gore
DESIGN
A Shoe of Her Own
TABLE: What's in a Shoe?
PHOTO: Nike Air Zoom M9 Soccer Shoes
Women's Achilles' Heel: The Knee
MARKETING
Sing a Song of Selling
TABLE: Forget MTV. Now Ads Are Starmakers
PHOTO: Gap's Khakis Swing Ad
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week
CHART: Production Index
CHART: Mutual Fund Returns
CHART: Stocks and Bonds
HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
The Week Ahead
EDITORIALS
Beijing Is Playing a Perilous Game
Treasury Loses a Class Act