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Nov. 1, 1999

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COVER STORY
• Religion in the Workplace
•    COVER IMAGE: Religion in the Workplace
•    TABLE: Spirituality in America
•    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Funds That Help Investors Answer a Higher Calling

INTERNATIONAL -- COVER STORY
• Morgan Stanley: The Deal Machine (int'l edition)
•    COVER IMAGE: Morgan Stanley: The Deal Machine
•    TABLE: Morgan Stanley's Growing Influence in Europe
•    TABLE: The Battle for Europe's Markets
•    Storming Ahead of the Pack in Asia (int'l edition)

BUSINESS WEEK E.BIZ
• Business Week e.biz

SPECIAL REPORT
• Business Week/Architectural Record Awards

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• A Chic Spot for the CEO Crowd
• Red-Faced in Redmond
• Boards Are Packing More Wallop
• TABLE: Drawing a Crowd
• Sometimes Politics Can Be a Real Trip
• Dot.com Gets a League of Its Own
•    TABLE: The Ad Value of a Basketball Startup
• The Last Straw
•    PHOTO: Do-It-Yourself Straw Casket
• CHART: For Immigrants, Education Counts
• Footnotes

READERS REPORT
• Why Dow 36,000 Is Probably a Fantasy
• Shorten That Long Baseball Season
• Is Online Reporting Too ''Fast and Loose''?
• One Unhappy Ford Owner
• Internet Riches Are An Illusion
• Keep the Feds out of Education
• The FDA: Underfunded or Just Inept?
• Computers Don't Make Good Doctors

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Learning to lead'' and ''The executive MBA your way'' (Special Report: Executive Education, Oct. 18)
• ''Prime-rate funds: Ready for prime time'' (BusinessWeek Investor, Oct. 4)

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Oh, for a Bug-Free Browser
• Presto! Shared Printing
• Help Desk
• Web Destinations

BOOKS
• How the Net Was Born--and Where It's Headed
•    PHOTO: Cover, ''Weaving the Web''

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• Mundell: The Man Who Laid the Groundwork for the Euro

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• Mean Streets for the Poor
•    TABLE: Poverty's Dire Effect on Life Expectancy
• How to Calm the Campus
• Who's Bullish, Who's Not
•    CHART: The Top Brass See Problems Ahead

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: Why Oct. 28 Is Marked on Wall Street's Calendar
•    CHART: Export Growth Is Picking Up
•    CHART: Shoppers Continue to Keep Retailers Busy
•    CHART: Import Prices Are Turning Around
• Italy: Still the Caboose on the Euro Train
•    CHART: Manufacturing Is Rebounding in Italy

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• Is the U.S. Building a Debt Bomb?
•    TABLE: Some of the Biggest Borrowers
•    CHART: Debt Soars to Record Levels
• Commentary: Supply-Side Isn't Voodoo Anymore
• Profits Look Great. They May Be Merely Good
•    TABLE: An Early Look at Third-Quarter Profits
• Commentary: Rite Aid Hasn't Treated Its Real Ills Yet
•    TABLE: Plenty of Wrong Moves
• A Boom for the Baby Bells?
•    TABLE: Baby Bells Want to Go Long
• Commentary: The High Cost of Canada's Not-So-Open Skies
• Shortcutting the Online Traffic Jam
•    GRAPHIC: Around the Web Bottleneck

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Arthur Shaw: A Web Wizard for the Well-To-Do
• CBS: Calling Off a Spin-Off?
• No Aptivas Sold Here
• Why McDonnell Got Slapped
• Second Thoughts on Phone Bills
• The SEC: Turning on the Speakerphone?
• Et Cetera...
• Lexmark: Offline?
•    CHART: Lexmark International Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• Why Business Isn't Bucking This Minimum-Wage Hike
• Divided on Internet Ads
• Tax Dollars at Work
• Doctor Unions Gain Support

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Japan's Asian Comeback
•    CHART: Signs of Life
• Commentary: Will Japan Inc. Copy Nissan's New Model?
• A Hard Sell for Microsoft in China
• Mannesmann Makes Its Move
•    TABLE: The Contenders
• Coming Soon: Europe's First $1 Trillion Bank?
•    TABLE: Hypo and Dresdner: Serious Synergy

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Can a Compromise President Hold Indonesia Together?
• Redoing European Aerospace
• Chavez Disappoints

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• Taking Aim at the Nightmare Bug
• Commentary: Wanted: Early Warning for Global Epidemics

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• Plotting the Finest Lines on Computer Chips
•    PHOTO: Nanoplotter Printing
• How to Keep Mice from Hitting the Bottle
• Mad Cow Disease: A Promising New Blood Test
• A Hipper Prosthesis
• Developments to Watch Contacts

ENTERTAINMENT
• Can This Man Make the MGM Lion Roar Again?
•    CHART: Blockbuster

SPORTS BUSINESS
• NASCAR: Unsafe at This Speed?
•    CHART: Zoom TV
•    CHART: Motor Sports Are Pacing the Market

MARKETING
• Can Wendy's Sizzle Again?
•    CHART: Serving Up Profits

MANAGEMENT
• At Pier 1, a Search for Lost Cachet
•    CHART: As Pier 1 Loses Its Moorings...Investors Get Dunked

GOVERNMENT
• Election 2000: Nobody's Ignoring Hispanics Now
•    CHART: Why the Hispanic Vote Matters So Much

THE CORPORATION
• Tyco: Aggressive or out of Line?
•    TABLE: Tyco under Fire
•    TABLE: Deal-A-Day Dennis
•    CHART: Tyco's Buying Binge Stokes Sales...And Even Bigger Earnings Gains...But Accounting Questions Have Spooked Investors
•    CHART: Tyco When Kozlowski Took Over...And Tyco As It Is Today
• It's a Wonderful Herbalife
•    TABLE: Mark Hughes's Herbalife: Two Decades of Turmoil

ECONOMICS
• When Is the Jobless Rate Too Low?
•    CHART: Jobs and Inflation

FINANCE
• Time for Investors to Spread Their Wings?
•    CHART: A Comeback May Be Ahead
• Invasion of the Superbanks?
•    TABLE: What Might Happen Next
• The New 401(k) Bonanza: Lower Fees
•    TABLE: Comparing 401(k) Expenses
• Morgan for the Masses?

INDUSTRIES
• Commentary: How the Pentagon Can Be All That It Can Be

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
• Spotting ''Style Creep''
•    TABLE: Style Drifters
• Commentary: Fear Not the Dark, Stock Traders
•    TABLE: The 24-Hour Market
• Consumer Clout
•    TABLE: Getting into the Heads of Consumers
• Making Sense of Medicare
•    TABLE: Medicare Resources
•    TABLE: To Your Health

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
• Not All Day Traders Are Looney Tunes
•    TABLE: George's Rules of Day Trading

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
• A Northrop Co-Pilot?
•    CHART: Many Investors Have Bailed Out
• Banking on a Techies' Banker
•    CHART: Steadily Picking Up Steam
• Concentric: Net ''Backbone'' Supplier
•    CHART: In a Long Slump

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
• Beware of the Debt Bomb
• Accounting: The Games Companies Play

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON THE CZECH REPUBLIC
• Building Walls Around Gypsies...Could Backfire on the Czechs (int'l edition)
•    MAP: Czech Republic

INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM BELGIUM
• From Desk to Disaster Area--and Loving It (int'l edition)
•    MAP: Belgium

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• Do India's Young Care About Others? (int'l edition)
• Abortion Is No Way to Control Crime (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Japan's Asian Comeback (int'l edition)
•    CHART: Signs of Life
• Commentary: Will Japan Inc. Copy Nissan's New Model? (int'l edition)
• A Hard Sell for Microsoft in China (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Euro Cell Phones: Mannesmann Calling (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: The Contenders
•    ONLINE ORIGINAL: How Li Ka-shing Made Big Green on Orange (int'l edition)
• Healing Novartis (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: What's Ailing a Giant
•    CHART: Taking a Fall
• Is Iberia Finally Ready for Takeoff? (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Irala Remakes Iberia

INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
• A Copper King in Mexico? (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: The New Giant at a Glance

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Coming Soon: Europe's First $1 Trillion Bank? (int'l edition)
•   TABLE: Hypo and Dresdner: How They'd Work Together (int'l edition)
• Mercury Dips, and the City Shivers (int'l edition)
• Bringing Down the Czech Crown (int'l edition)
•    CHART: Too Much of a Good Thing?

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• Creative Destruction in Europe (int'l edition)