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May 1, 2000

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COVER STORY
• The Fall of a Dot-Com
•    COVER IMAGE: The Fall of a Dot-Com
•    CHART: Tale of a Dot-Com's Fortunes
•    TABLE: Craig Winn, Netrepreneur
•    TABLE: Bailing Out
•    ONLINE ORIGINAL: As the E-Tailing Field Clears, Will Amazon Flower?

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
• Toyota Unbound (int'l edition)
•    ASIA COVER IMAGE: Toyota Unbound
•    CHART: The Nonauto Business Looks Promising...And the Profits Are Growing
•    TABLE: Toyota's New Strategy

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• Gerhard Schröder: The Accidental Reformer (int'l edition)
•    EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: The Accidental Reformer
•    TABLE: The Path to Reform
•    TABLE: Schröder's Agenda
•    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Hans Eichel: ''It's Not a Government of the Status Quo

INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN COVER STORY
• The Fight against Latin Poverty (int'l edition)
•    LATIN AMERICA COVER IMAGE: The Fight against Poverty
•    CHART: The Intractable Problem
•    TABLE: Promising New Approaches to Reducing Poverty
•    Mexico: A Powerful Incentive to Keep Kids in School (int'l edition)
•    Peru: Fixing the World, One Roof at a Time (int'l edition)
•    Brazil: Small Investments That Make a Big Difference (int'l edition)
•    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Chile: Turning Street People into Businesspeople

SPECIAL REPORT
• The Talking Internet
•    TABLE: Birth of a New Communications Network
•    CHART: Booming Voice on the Net
•    TABLE: Telephones on Steroids
•    Yahoo! Look Who's Yakking Away
•    Europe Swoons for Voice-on-the-Net
•    Where the Money Will Be
•       CHART: Investing in Voice on the Net
•       TABLE: Stock Stars

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• Jaguar: We've Gotta Have It
• Ira's New Health-Care Thing
• Cough It Up for Dot.TV
• TABLE: The Market Never Sleeps
• Sun and Microsoft Face Off on the Ice
• It Ain't Exactly Julia Child
•    TABLE: The $1.47-a-Day Diet
• For a Fee, a ''Human Surf Engine''
• CHART: Taxing Matters
• Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
• Gene Marcial Is Branching Out Online

READERS REPORT
• What Are the Biotechs' Next Targets?
• A Down-to-Earth Assessment of Yahoo's Market Cap
• The Doctors Aren't Entirely to Blame
• EMC Is Still the Leader in Data Storage
• Helping Steelmakers Shouldn't Mean Hurting Taxpayers
• The Disabled and the Web: A Matter for the Courts
• The Last Thing Ireland Needs Is Advice from Brussels
• Why Knicks Fans Love Latrell
• On Wall Street, ''Guidance'' Has Replaced Analysis

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Chemo without the hair loss'' (Developments to Watch, Apr. 17, 2000)

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Loosening Palm's Grip
•    PHOTO: HP Jornada with Pocket PC Operating System
•    TABLE: Software on New Pocket PCs

INDUSTRY INSIDER
• A Roving Ambassador for Clean Technology

BOOKS
• Why Star Wars Is Still Aloft
•    PHOTO: Cover, ''Way Out There in the Blue''

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• The Most Important Vote Congress Will Cast This Year

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• Why Greenspan Won't Let Up
•    CHART: The Economy Is Still Liquid
• The Fed Speaks, but Who Listens?
• Day Traders' Power Grows
•    CHART: Heavy Day Trading

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: Inflation: Tough Questions, Tougher Solutions
•    CHART: Services Lead Core Inflation Higher
•    CHART: Consumers Are Still Going at Top Speed
•    CHART: The Trade Deficit Continues to Soar
• Euro Zone: The High Cost of Defending the Euro
•    CHART: The Euro's Long Swoon

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• What's the Best Way for Investors to Hang On?
•    TABLE: Valuations: All Sectors Are Not Created Equal
• Profits: Still Going Strong
•    CHART: Open Wallets: Global Info-Tech Spending
• Tech Jitters? Not Here
•    TABLE: Business Week's First Quarter Flash Report
• Commentary: Has the Fed Painted Itself into a Corner?
• Living without That Hummer
•    CHART: How Much Will Consumers Retrench?
• Commentary: Know-Nothings at the Barricades
•    Commentary: Bully for the Protesters
• Hypertension at Bristol-Myers
•    CHART: Bristol under Pressure
• Commentary: E-Exchanges May Keep Trustbusters Busy

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Jules Kroll: Dangerous Liaison
• Cisco Helps SBC Go for Speed
• More Groceries Move to the Net
• Avon Calls with Good News
• GM Keeps On Truckin'
• Auto-Friendly Palm Pilots
• Et Cetera...
• Trading Up
•    CHART: E*Trade Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• Suddenly, the New Al Gore Is Looking a Lot Like the Old Al Gore
• Hiking the Money Trail
• What Census Backlash?

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Symbian: So Much for This Microsoft Rival
•    TABLE: Chipping Away at Symbian
•    PHOTO: Ericsson's MC218

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Zimbabwe's Political Storm Could Batter Southern Africa
• A French Bonanza?
• Mexico Is on a Roll

PEOPLE
• Rebecca Mark Is Paddling As Fast As She Can
•    CHART: Azurix Stock: In the Tank
•    RESUME: Rebecca Mark

MARKETING
• Commentary: E-Tail: Gleaming Storefronts with Nothing Inside
•    TABLE: Whither E-Tailing?

SPORTS BUSINESS
• For the WNBA, It's No Easy Layup
•    CHART: In the Stands, the WNBA Is Second-String...And TV Viewership Hasn't Taken Off

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• Prostate Cancer: Two Steps Forward
•    TABLE: Building a Better Screen

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• Plastic Fiber That's Built for Speed
• Don't Worry If This Dome Collapses
• Combing DNA Strands for Defects
• Innovations

GOVERNMENT
• Commentary: The Privacy Debate Goes to School
•    TABLE: Facing Off in the Schoolyard
• Invasion of the Databases

THE CORPORATION
• Can Lockheed Martin Pull Out of Dry Dock?
•    CHART: Lockheed Shares Misfire

FINANCE
• The Mess at Bank One
•    TABLE: The Fall of the House of McCoy
•    CHART: Bank One's Stock Price
•    Dimon in the Rough: Bank One's Boss-in-a-Hurry
• Hugh McColl: A Banker in Need of a Bunker
•    TABLE: Critics Give McColl a Thumbs-Down
• HSBC and Merrill: Why Not a Wedding?
• Commentary: The Right Doctor for Aetna?

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
• The Cinderella of Circuit Boards

THE BEST OF BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE
• Shawn Fanning's Struggle
• Just Call Him Teflon Mike
• E-I-E-I-E-Farming

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
• A Conscience Doesn't Have to Make You Poor
•    TABLE: The 10 Best-Performing Funds
•    TABLE: Finding Good-Guy Funds
•    A Fund That Tracks the Do-Gooder Index
•       TABLE: Domini Social Equity Fund
• Here's a Tech Play That Still Looks Solid
•    CHART: Bargain Time?
• Minding Your Money with the Web's Help
•    TABLE: The Women's Financial Web
• Tech Investing at a Turning Point (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Top Sectors
•    TABLE: The Best Offshore Mutual Funds
•    TABLE: How the Biggest Funds Fared
•    TABLE: The Worst Offshore Mutual Funds
• Click for Easy Banking--And Lots of Deals (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Web Rivals
• It's a Stock for the Ups, a Bond for the Oops (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Half the Risk, Two-Thirds the Gain
• Thinking Small Brings Big Results (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Small Stocks, Stellar Returns

BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
• The Static in That AT&T Wireless IPO
•    TABLE: Wireless Wonders

BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
• An LBO at Seagate
•    CHART: After the Fall
• These Two Banks Are Looking Solid
• Stamp of Approval for Cylink
•    CHART: Ugly in the Short Term

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
• For Less Inflation, Try Less Money
• What Developing Countries Want

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON REYKJAVIK
• As Isolation Gives Way to Parties...A Tidy Gene Pool Pays Off Big (int'l edition)
•    MAP: Iceland

INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
• A Capital Crusade against Rats (int'l edition)
•    MAP: Washington, D.C.

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• The Internet Gives Consumers an Edge in Buying (int'l edition)
• Europe's Central Bankers Have Lost Credibility (int'l edition)
• Self-Regulation May Not Solve Internet Privacy Problems (int'l edition)
• On the Contrary, High Fertility Bodes Ill (int'l edition)
• Don't Shortchange the Emerald Isle (int'l edition)
• To Cut World Oil Prices, Let's Raise Gas Taxes (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Is Asia out of Luck? (int'l edition)
•    CHART: The Tumbling Dow Sends Asia Down
•    TABLE: Reality Bites
• Has Korea Voted Out Reform? (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Kim's In-Box
• Thailand's Recovery Is Only Skin-Deep (int'l edition)
•    TABLE: Why Thailand's Restructuring Has Stalled

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Ripples, but No Panic for Europe's Investors (int'l edition)
•    CHART: The Big Tech Sell-Off...
•    TABLE: ...Hasn't Soured Investors on Stocks
• Poland: When Strong Money Hurts (int'l edition)
•    CHART: Poland's Soaring Current-Account Deficit

INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
• International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
•    Country Focus/Germany (int'l edition)
•       CHART: German Growth

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• Europe Isn't out of the Woods Yet (int'l edition)