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Sept. 13, 1999




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COVER STORY
Meet Cisco's Mr. Internet
   COVER IMAGE: Cisco
   TABLE: Building John Chambers' New World Network
   RESUME: John Thomas Chambers
   PHOTO: John Chambers with Son John on a Fishing Trip
   TABLE: Cisco's Stock Rockets
   TABLE: The Tech Industry's Cookie Monster
   The Man Who Hones Cisco's Cutting Edge
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Cisco Could Be the Safest Net Play Around
 
SPECIAL REPORT -- GLOBAL INVESTING
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FRONTIER -- FOR SMALL BIZ AND ENTREPRENEURS
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UP FRONT
Talk Show
Washington's Sulfurous Feud
Preventing Tragedy in the Sky
Sloan's Online Orientation
Is This Wine a Sagittarius?
E-Commerce@ivorytower.com
Florida Is Hit by a Million ''Eeks''
Y2K Terror: The Lighter Side
CHART: It Rocks! It Rolls! It's MP3
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
21st Century Ideas: The Good, the Dangerous, the Unmentioned
An Unfair Poke at Mutual Funds?
Staying Out of a Family Squabble
Mixed Reviews for Mixing Professions
Ann Livermore and Gender Bias
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''The hottest property in the valley?'' (People, Aug. 30)
''21 ideas for the 21st Century'' (Special Double Issue, Aug. 30)
''The last word in the new words'' (Up Front, Aug. 30)
 
LETTER FROM UTAH
How a Rainbow Trout Hooked Me
   MAP: Northeast Utah
 
BOOKS
Without Gerstner, This Story Goes Untold
   PHOTO: Cover, ''IBM Redux''
   PHOTO: Cover, ''Saving Big Blue''
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
   PHOTO: Cover, ''Devil Take the Hindmost''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
The High Cost of ''Free'' PCs
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Estate Taxes: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
An Overlooked Labor Cost
   CHART: Stock Options' Big Claim on Future Earnings
A Woman's Place Is...
Layoffs: A Tonic for Stocks?
   CHART: Together They Climb
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Profits: An Even More Important Tea Leaf to Read
   CHART: Purchasers Report Some Price Pressures
   CHART: Profitability Is High But Slipping
   CHART: Confidence Remains Quite High
Ecuador: Restructuring the Debt Restructuring
   CHART: Deepening Trouble
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Telecom: Why Talk Is So Cheap
   CHART: Heading South
   Commentary: Let the Baby Bells Reach into Long Distance
Free Software from Anywhere?
   TABLE: Software on Demand
Commentary: The New Economy's New Convert
   TABLE: Speed Limits?
Commentary: On Congress' Hit List: Crucial Business Data
   TABLE: Statistical Crunch
HMOs Are Beginning to Look Vulnerable
   TABLE: How the HMO Reform Bills Differ
It's a BMW! It's a Porsche! It's an SUV
   CHART: Roughing It Softly
Where Net Startups Go to Be Born
   TABLE: Baby Company Hatcheries
   $276 Million: Now That's Motivation
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
William Farley: Soured Grapes
A Blockbuster Harvest for Apple
Can These Guys Beam Up Iridium?
Intel Chips Away at Networking
AHP: The Sting of Another Recall
Heavy Duty for the Marlboro Man
Et Cetera...
Republic Services: In the Dumps
   CHART: Republic Services Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
R&D: Is Congress Choking Off the Fuel of the New Economy?
A McConnell Misfire?
Greenspan Backlash
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
En Garde, Wal-Mart
   TABLE: Two Giants Face Off
Commentary: A Defeat for BNP, a Victory for Banking Reform
Will the AIDS Plague Change U.S. Trade Policy?
Sega's Dream Machine
   TABLE: Jockeying for Supremacy
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Can Mexico's Opposition Parties Stop Opposing Each Other?
A New Latin Dictator?
Turkish Aftershocks
 
MANAGEMENT
When Capital Gets Antsy
   CHART: From Blue Chip to Poker Chip?
   CHART: Hot Money
   TABLE: Long-Term Investor? It's All Relative (extended)
 
MEDIA
Media Giants: Dot.com or Bust
   TABLE: The Cyberspace Race
 
THE CORPORATION
J&J Stops Babying Itself
   TABLE: J&J's New Formula
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Getting a Grip on Bacterial Slime
   TABLE: Harmful and Dangerous
   GRAPHIC: The Formation of a Biofilm
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
A Crustacean Band-Aid for Burn Victims
Building a Smarter Mouse
Road Noise: Turning Down the Volume
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
 
GOVERNMENT
Hughes and Loral: Too Eager to Help China?
   TABLE: Explosions in China--And Washington
Whose Info Is It, Anyway?
   TABLE: Data War Flashpoints
 
PEOPLE
This Is Not His Father's Comdisco
   RESUME: Nicholas K. Pontikes
Icahn's Big Bet on Low Rollers
   TABLE: Icahn Throws the Dice
 
FINANCE
BofA: A Megabank in the Making
   TABLE: Bad Slips While Building the Biggest Bank
   TABLE: BofA Has a Leading Share of Lucrative Markets...
   TABLE: ...But the Bank Is Heavily Dependent on Lending...
   CHART: ...And the Stock Has Been a Laggard
The Biggest Fund You Never Heard Of
   TABLE: The Long Road Ahead
Commentary: The Tidal Wave of Cash Gushing Out of Russia
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
Is Isiah Thomas Crazy Like a Fox?
Commentary: The Umps Were an Easy Out. The Players Won't Be
 
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
Northwest of Napa, A Road Less Traveled
   TABLE: Dry Creek Shopping
   MAP: Dry Creek Valley
Eat, Drink, and Keep Pedaling
   MAP: La Rioja, Spain
Taking Your Time to Taos
   MAP: Taos, NM
The Texas Grandeur That Roped LBJ
   TABLE: Hill Country Info
   MAP: Hill Country
This Side of Paradise
   MAP: Hana, Maui
Get Ready to Say ''Wow''
   TABLE: Mexico Train Tips
   MAP: Copper Canyon, Mexico
Playing It by Ear in the Philippines
   MAP: Banaue, Philippines
A Ferry Here, a Tram There...
   MAP: Hong Kong
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Sniffing Out the Financial Planner for You
Shelter from Rate Hikes?
   TABLE: Rate-Resistant Funds
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
How to Retire from Retirement Planning
   TABLE: Point-and-Click Planning Tools
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Before You Log Off...
   CHART: A Battered Internet Baby
MTI: A High-Tech Highflier
   CHART: Winging Upward
Microtherapeutics Is on the Mend
   CHART: Gaining Strength
 
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week
   CHART: Production Index
   Production Index Components
   HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
   CHART: S&P 500
   CHART: Mutual Funds
The Week Ahead
 
EDITORIALS
The Great Bubble Debate
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON PERU
A Festival Helps Heal War Wounds...While a Cactus Tickles Taste Buds (int'l edition)
   MAP: Ayacucho, Peru
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Argentina Must Think Hard About Technological Change (int'l edition)
21st Century Ideas: The Good, the Dangerous, the Unmentioned (int'l edition)
Gun Ownership Is Rising in Slovakia, Too (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
The Haunting of Bank Bali (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The Deepening Debacle at Bank Bali
Sega's Dream Machine (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Jockeying for Supremacy in Game Land
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A: Sega's President Is Playing for Keeps
Suddenly, Sohu Is Looking Ho-Hum (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The Headaches of a Chinese Web Startup
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Trawling for Cancer Cures (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Zeltia's Undersea Drug Harvest
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
Root Out the Rot in Asia's Banks (int'l edition)
Money Laundering--and Capital Flight (int'l edition)
 



 
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