Cover Illustration by Christoph Niemann. INTERNATIONAL Cover Photograph by Andreas Pohlmann.
July 19, 1999
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FRONTIER
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EDITOR'S MEMO
What You'll Net on the Web
UP FRONT
Talk Show
The Cloning of Idealab!
Dinner with the Gateses
Europe's Startups Grow at an Escargot's Pace
TABLE: Brotherly Love, but It Will Cost You
Microsoft's Gaffes Don't Seem Temporary
Next, Online Bids over Jail Time?
In Tokyo, the Plots Thicken
PHOTO: A Park24 Parking Lot in Japan
CHART: A Little Less Broke
Footnotes
LETTER FROM HARLEM
Harlem's New Renaissance
MAP: Harlem
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
The NBA Needs to Do Some Globetrotting
ECONOMIC TRENDS
The Power of Power Couples
CHART: College-Educated Couples Are Big-City Bound
CEOs, Options, and Happy Talk
Boston's Red-Hot Office Market
CHART: Downtown Office Space Gets Tighter
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Good News about Jobs Is Bad News to the Fed
CHART: Job Growth: Slower, but Still Strong
CHART: Take This Job and Shove It
CHART: Purchasers See More Industrial Activity
Why Italy Can't Ignore Pension Reform
GRAPHIC: Italy's Budget Blueprint
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Disney: Out on a Limb
TABLE: Disney in Transition...
CHART: ...And Behind Media Rivals
This Phantom Is a Menace to Toymakers
Commentary: All's Not Fair in Labor Wars
You Can Go Home Again--with a Raise
CHART: State Unemployment Rates
Commentary: Bring Antidumping Laws Up to Date
Commentary: Paying for Pills Won't Pay for Itself
TABLE: Saving Lives and Money
The High-Tech Lobby: Everything's Going Its Way
TABLE: Technology Is on a Roll...But There's a Lot More Lobbying to Do
Is the King of Minivans Moving out of the Fast Lane?
TABLE: U.S. Minivan Market Share
Commentary: This Is How to Go Wireless, Bernie
TABLE: Ripe for a Roll-Up
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Maryann Keller: Zipping onto the I-Way
Cox Makes a Big Connection
Waste Management Gets Trashed
Payback for LTCM's Angels
A Healthy Hookup for AOL
Did Boeing Block Probers?
Et Cetera...
Beware, Gold Bugs
CHART: Gold Spot Market Price Per Ounce
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Suddenly, Trial Lawyers Are on the Defensive
The Fed's Revolving Door
Bush's Tupperware Party
More Net Lobbyists Cometh
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Totalfina Goes for a Gusher
TABLE: A New French Behemoth?
An Ouster at Ericsson
TABLE: Desperate Times
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
How Zhu's Foes Could Undermine His Reforms
Reviving Israel's Economy
Terror in Turkey
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Diabetes: Is a Cure on the Horizon?
TABLE: The Challenge of Curing Diabetes
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Stacking Silicon to Make Superfast Chips
The Cleanest Cars of All Get Closer
Warning Utilities When Sun Storms Turn Threatening
A Pigsty That Doesn't Stink Like One
Developments to Watch Contacts
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week
CHART: Production Index
Production Index Components
HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
CHART: Mutual Funds
CHART: S&P 500
The Week Ahead
EDITORIALS
How the Net Is Changing the Rules
Make Those Retirement Plans Simpler