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Jan. 31, 2000




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COVER STORY
Special Report: The New Economy
It works in America. Will it go global?
 
FRONTIER
Frontier -- The Resource for Entrepreneurs
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Bashing Microsoft (Whatever That Is)
This Ban May Be a Sucker's Bet
Hey, They Can Open Their Wallets
Lights! Camera! Download!
Rest Easy, You'll Be Bone-Dry
Speed Bumps for Road Rage
CHART: Stockbrokers Still No. 1 with Investors
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Will the Net Be the Death of Managed Care?
It May Be GE's Turn to Get Squeezed
The Poor Are Left out of the Global Economy
E-College Can Teach You Only So Much
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Dealing with risk'' (Business Week Investor, Jan. 17, 2000)
''Portal Combat'' (Information Technology, Jan. 17, 2000)
 
LETTER FROM WEST VIRGINIA
The High Price of a Klan Rally
   MAP: West Virginia
 
BOOKS
Storming a Bastion of Machismo
   PHOTO: Cover, ''In Glory's Shadow''
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
The Network Comes Home
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Longer Life Was the Century's Greatest Gift
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Not Enough Is Trickling Down
   CHART: The Income Bonanza at the Top
Medical Costs of the ''Old Old''
An Anglo-Saxon Wealth Effect
   CHART: Britons Are Feeling Flush
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Steering Clear of the Limits--but Where Are They?
   CHART: Industrial Output Is Accelerating
   CHART: Warm Weather Lifts December Building
   CHART: Inflation: The Net Begins to Play a Role
Canada: Why Interest Rates Are Headed North
   CHART: A Record Jump in Payrolls
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
A New Net Equation
   CHART: Profitable Stocks Rise, Part 1
   CHART: Profitable Stocks Rise, Part 2
   CHART: Unprofitable Stocks Fall, Part 1
   CHART: Unprofitable Stocks Fall, Part 2
   TABLE: Why Stock Market Valuations Are Changing
Burying the Hatchet Buys a Lot of Drug Research
   TABLE: A Big Pill to Swallow
A Chat with Bill Gates, the New Guy in Product Development
Commentary: Multiple Microsofts May Be Better Than One
Can Schwab Hang on to Its Heavy Hitters?
   TABLE: You Take the High Road...
All Get Richer--Except the Poor
Commentary: Biotech Foods: Why a Hard Line Could Stunt U.S. Trade
Commentary: Tax Cuts: Where's the Old Magic?
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Michael Jordan: For This Job, He'll Need Wizardry
A Lid on ''Bias'' from the Fed
One-Man-Rule Is Over at Coke
And Now: Web-Sponsored Luge
Citi Buys a (Small) Piece of The City
OPEC's Firm, and Oil Folks Are Happy
Et Cetera...
Tuned Up
   CHART: Motorola Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Iowa Is a Bellwether of--Not a Whole Heck of a Lot
Fallout from Seattle
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Japan: With Reform Crumbling, Obuchi May Take a Fall
Kohl Resigns
Spanish Elections
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Taking the Guesswork out of Drive Time
Would You Like White or Orange Rice with That?
A Pill to Take the Sting out of Heparin
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Now, Electronic ''Eyes'' for the Blind
   CHART: Putting Visions in Jerry's Head
 
THE CORPORATION
Going Nowhere Fast in Cyberspace
   TABLE: A Struggling FedEx...
   CHART: ...Loses Its Net Premium
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Charge of the Light Brigade
   TABLE: Optical Networks' Quick Start
   TABLE: Warp Speed
   TABLE: Blinded by the Light
   Why Corvis Is Belle of the Telecom Ball
 
PEOPLE
Alteon's Selina Lo: ''I've Left a Few Dead Bodies''
   TABLE: The Selina Lowdown
 
MEDIA
The Cable TV of Radio?
   CHART: Who's Going to Tune In?
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
Now That's a Hail Mary Play
   TABLE: The Dots Trying to Connect
 
MUTUAL FUND SCOREBOARD
The Few, the Proud...The Profitable
   TABLE: The Bond-Fund Averages
   TABLE: The Bond Fund A-List and the Best by Categories (.pdf)
   TABLE: The Best by Categories (text)
   SCOREBOARD: Bond Funds: Mutual Fund Scoreboard (.pdf)
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
The PC vs. the CPA
   TABLE: When to Go for Tax Help
   TABLE: Crunching the Numbers
Coming Soon: The Truly Paperless Return?
   TABLE: Data Mining at Tax Time
   TABLE: Where to File Online
A Talk with Intuit's Guru
Tax Breaks: Don't Forget Your Home Office
   TABLE: Other Deductions
Last-Minute Tax Moves
   TABLE: Family Income-Tax Savings
Here Come the E-Funds
   TABLE: Online Mutual Funds
Women's Investing: Vive la Différence
   TABLE: The Financial Gender Gap
 
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
A Capital-Gains Miracle Worker
   TABLE: The Basis of a Nightmare
 
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Enzo Moves in on HIV
   CHART: Heading Straight Up
Brazilians May Put Rouge in the Pink
   CHART: A Steel Stock on the Skids
Juiced Up at FuelCell Energy
   CHART: A Steady Flow of Power
 
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
Globalizing the New Economy
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON SLOVAKIA
An Old Nuke Angers a Neighbor...But the Fears May Be Overblown (int'l edition)
   MAP: Slovakia
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
A Front-Runner in Indian Finance (int'l edition)
Utility Mergers Cut the Cost of Nuclear Power (int'l edition)
Pokémon: Japan's Answer to Coca-Cola? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Will Candor Pay Off for Indonesia? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The IMF's New Deal with Jakarta
A Typhoon of Indian Venture Capital? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Easing the Funding Rules for Startups
Thailand: Heading Back to the Black? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Strong Medicine (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The New Giants
   ''An Independent Thinker'' (int'l edition)
The Brain Trust Polishing Putin's Image (int'l edition)
   TABLE: An Eclectic Team
Richard Branson Is No Techie, but He Loves the Web (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Virtual Virgin
Mellowing Out? Not This Union Boss (int'l edition)
   RESUME: Union Chief Klaus Zwickel (int'l edition)
A Blue Blood Leading AXA into Battle (int'l edition)
   RESUME: Henri De Castries (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
How Long Can Tech Funds Keep This Up? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The Best
   TABLE: The Worst
   TABLE: Top Sectors
   TABLE: How the Biggest Funds Fared
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
   Country Focus/Italy (int'l edition)
      CHART: Italian Inflation



 
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