Cover Photograph by Alan Levenson. ASIAN Cover Photograph by Greg Girard/Contact. EUROPEAN Cover Illustration by Mick Wiggins.
Sept. 27, 1999
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UP FRONT
Talk Show
How Amazon Got on IBM's Bad Side
Dennis Hayes: Modem Operandi
AmEx' New Card: How Hip Can It Be?
Peace Talks before the Trade Wars
Scratch, Sniff, Then Click
Pound-Foolish on Office Psych Care
TABLE: Costs of Depression
A Watchdog for Euro Food?
CHART: Show You the Money? It's with Variable Pay
Footnotes
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Does Abortion Lower the Crime Rate?
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Ethnic Gaps on Campus
CHART: Shifting Tides among America's Students
The Real NAFTA Winner
CHART: U.S. Companies Look North
Cutting Back on Tobacco Ads
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Could That Be an Inflation Cloud?
CHART: Consumers Are Still on a Tear
CHART: Where Price Pressures Are Building
CHART: The Current Account Sinks to a Record Low
Australia: Tie Me Economy Down, Boys
CHART: Payrolls Are Growing Faster
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
William Raduchel: A Bright Ray of Sun at AOL
Bracing for Pink Slips at AT&T
An Internet Boost for the Bells
Vencor Is on the Critical List
GE Branches Out in Broadcasting
Microsoft: More Hooks in the Net
Et Cetera...
Federal-Mogul's Weak Spark
CHART: Federal-Mogul Corp. Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Make Way for a Not-So-Compassionate Conservative?
The FCC: Sticking to Its Guns
Hispanic Vote Up for Grabs?
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Indonesia: A Pariah State?
TABLE: East Timor: How It Happened
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Russia: How Terrorism Could Boost Yeltsin's Rivals
A Fight over French Jobs
End of a Cold War?
THE CORPORATION
Skechers Has to Watch Its Step
CHART: Skechers Picks Up the Pace...But Investors Give It the Boot
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Evolution on Fast-Forward
CHART: The Great Gene Shuffle
TABLE: What Do You Get When You Cross...
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Nanotubes--Fresh from the Oven
Set Phasers on Crash
Teaching Cancer Cells How to Die
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Gifts with Strings Attached
TABLE: Tips for Setting Up Trusts
A Trust for Minors: ''It Gives You Control''
''I Want to Short Lollipops Today''
TABLE: Cyberlessons on Money and Investing
A Chat with the Man Who Wrote the Book
Should You Listen to ''Whisper Numbers''?
TABLE: The Best Guesses
Commentary: Stock in a Stock Exchange? Think Twice
CHART: High Return, High Risk?
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 Prosperity Gap
E-Heroes Get Their 15 Minutes