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May 22, 2000




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COVER STORY
Our Guide to Online Investing
Everything you need to know
 
INTERNATIONAL -- COVER STORY
Special Report: Wireless in Cyberspace (int'l edition)
Around the world, new devices are creating a whole new Internet
 
FRONTIER
Frontier
Our special supplement for entrepreneurs and small business
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Coffee, Tea, or Mickey D?
For the Spy Who Has Everything
   PHOTO: Gulfstream V Corporate Jet
A Left-Right Punch to Educational TV
TABLE: The Young and the Restless
Is Pepsi the Soft Drink of Liberals?
The Darkness That Sells
Happy Days Are There Again
CHART: Off the Dole
Footnotes
 
EDITOR'S MEMO
An Oscar for Business Week Online
   PHOTO: Bob Arnold, Business Week Online
 
READERS REPORT
Voices on the Net: It's Not Just Talk
Manufacturers Are Not Dinosaurs
Don't Make Craig Winn the Fall Man for Value America
Don't Ask the Rich What Poor Nations Want
Can't Stop the Globalization
The Fine Points of Online Voting
To Fill the High-Tech Gap, Retrain U.S. Workers
A Stock Grant Is Not a Gift
''April Is the Cruellest Month, Breeding Lilacs...''
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Breaks for high tech: Pork is pork'' (Government, Apr. 24, 2000)
''Loosening Palm's grip'' (Technology & You, May 1, 2000)
''What guards a smoker's lungs'' (Developments to Watch, Apr. 17, 2000)
 
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
An American City Goes Latino
   MAP: San Francisco
 
BOOKS
Can Religion Make Life Less Hellish?
   PHOTO: Cover, ''The Fourth Great Awakening''
Friend of Al
   PHOTO: Cover, ''You Say You Want a Revolution''
Sonny's Demons
   PHOTO: Cover, ''The Devil and Sonny Liston''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
A Classy Laptop with a Pedigree
   TABLE: The ThinkPad T20 Series
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Egads! The Left Is Unchaining the World's Economies
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Why Fed Hikes Have Less Bite
   CHART: Fed Tightening Hasn't Hurt Consumption
Learning from Horatio Alger
The Wage Bill's Hidden Deflator
   CHART: Jobs for the Unskilled
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S: Productivity Is Winded As Wages Find Their Stride
   CHART: A Record Number of Americans Are Working
   CHART: Here's Why Profit Margins Look Better
   CHART: A Bulging Backlog of Unfilled Orders
Colombia: Politics May Cripple a Recovery
   CHART: A Weak Economy Means Far Slower Inflation
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Wooing the Worker
   CHART: As Unemployment Shrinks...Companies Offer Workers More
   Who'd Catch Pneumonia If the U.S. Sneezes
Greenspan: No More Mr. Quarter-Point?
   TABLE: Why the Fed May Have to Get Tough
Commentary: Don't Worry, Bill--Innovation Will Survive
   TABLE: How Microsoft Would Punish Itself
The SEC vs. CPAs: Suddenly, It's Hardball
Commentary: How Many ''Love Bug'' Attacks Will It Take?
An Overdose of Drug Advertising?
Commentary: Social Security: A Hard Issue That Deserves Tough Answers
   TABLE: Dueling Social Security Plans
Coming Soon: A Feast of Food Mergers
   TABLE: Recipe for Consolidation
The MBA: It's Still a Guy Thing
   TABLE: Women MBAs Say They Enjoyed B-School...Yet Getting Women to Attend Is a Challenge
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Christopher Galvin: Downwardly Mobile
Bell Atlantic and GTE: One at Last?
A Bitter Pill for Drugmakers
CD Buyers Catch a Break
Say It with E-Mail
An 800-Pound Ad Gorilla Is Born
Et Cetera...
Cisco Skid
   CHART: Cisco Systems Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Despite All the Name-Dropping, the Veep Short List Is Short Indeed
Pandering to High Tech
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
DoCoMo Rising
   TABLE: Win-Win Situation?
   Is Freeserve for Sale?
Commentary: Europe Shouldn't Squander This Telecom Windfall
Are Mexicans Feeling Safe Enough to Vote for Change?
   TABLE: Fox vs. Labastida
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Saudi Arabia: Can Prince Abdullah Shake the Economy Awake?
Putin's Choice
A Trio at Sony
 
GOVERNMENT
Oh, What a Sweet Soft-Money Scheme
   TABLE: Who Has Joint Committees
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
The Owner's Box Gets Wired
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
Commentary: Making Social Security More Women-Friendly
   TABLE: Women: Not So Secure
   CHART: Where the Elderly Get Their Money
 
THE BEST OF BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE
Sega's Superhero vs. the Big Guys
Death of the Dot-Coms?
The Hunt for Joe Roth
 
THE CORPORATION
Nordstrom Cleans Out Its Closets
   TABLE: Joining the 21st Century
 
MARKETING
Dot-Coms Get Physical
   TABLE: Not-So-Virtual Reality
TV or Not TV? Not TV
   TABLE: Nothing but Net
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Caveat Predator?
   TABLE: A Tale of Three Cities
 
FINANCE
Commentary: The Case against Single-Stock Futures
   TABLE: How the Contracts Might Work
Rising Step by Volatile Step
   CHART: The Staircase Bull Market
Fidelity: When Stars Take Flight
   TABLE: Fidelity Funds' New Pilots
For Merrill, Small Is Bountiful
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IBM's Scramble to Protect Its Server Biz from Sun
   TABLE: The Hardware Blues
   CHART: IBM's Server Revenues Fall...As Market Share in the Hot Unix Sector Declines
Commentary: Is Big Blue Thinking Big Enough?
Citrix: The Biggest Share in Shared Computing
   TABLE: Late Bloomer
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Relief for Asthma Patients?
   TABLE: Breaking the Asthma Chain
   When Cleanliness Is Next to Sickliness
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Honey, I Blew Up the Opera Glasses
   PHOTO: Constructing an 18-Ton Telescope Lens
For Doctors, an Online Consultant
Computers Grow Hair in an Effort to Be Sensitive
Innovations
 
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Here's My Birthday Wish List
 
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Positive Prognosis
   CHART: Back in Focus
A Cream Puff in Used Cars?
   CHART: A Little-Known Bargain
Big Noise on the Continent
   CHART: A European Internet Play?
 
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
   CHART: Business Week 50
The Week Ahead
 
EDITORIALS
Why the Auditors Need Auditing
Online Investors Deserve Better
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON PARAGUAY
Where Half a Town Has Gone North...And More May Follow Soon (int'l edition)
   MAP: Paraguay
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
How to Judge the Value of Softbank (int'l edition)
It's Far Too Late to Stop Globalization (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Indonesia: Crony Bank, Anyone? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Public Worries
B2B Is the Password (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Asian B2B Takes Flight
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
A Model for Putin? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Reinventing a Company Town
Boo.com Is Getting Downright Scary (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Growing Pains
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
Mexico's Election: This Won't Hurt (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Fox vs. Labastida
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Commentary: A Superfranc Is the Last Thing Switzerland Needs (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
   Country Focus/Britain (int'l edition)
      CHART: Sterling's Strength
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
The Mobile Net Requires a New Ethos (int'l edition)
 

ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
MAY 8, 2000
Southeast Asia's Motor City
Attack of the Hypermarkets

MAY 15, 2000
Spain's Surge
A Love Affair with the Stock Market
A Legend for How Long?
Korea: Going Crazy for Broadband



 
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