ISSUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2000
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COVER STORY

Compaq's Rockin' Boss
New CEO Michael Capellas has his act together. Can he shake up the computer world?
      COVER IMAGE: Compaq
      TABLE: Capellas' Turnaround
      CHART: Sales Growth Is Reviving...Producing Healthier Profits...And Boosting the Stock Price
      RESUME: Michael David Capellas
      Thinking Big by Thinking Small
      ONLINE ORIGINAL: Capellas: From Gridiron to Podium to Home
 

UP FRONT

  Talk Show
  Virtual Campus, Real Stock
  The Lady Is a Tanker
  There's Life after Larry Ellison
  TABLE: Accounts Deceivable
  The Making of a Cartoon Candidate
  Putting Fido on the Spot
  CHART: The Dish on Dish
  Footnotes
 

READERS REPORT

The Battle over Napster Rages On
Why Do Some Investors Get Special Treatment?
The Rich Are a Minority That Deserves Protection, Too
Social Security Isn't an Entitlement
How to Create a Nation of Multizillionaires
Look at the Math When Evaluating Eco-Cars
Hubris Can Be a Lightning Rod
The Real Numbers at Dick Davis
 

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

The table accompanying ''Anyone can be a venture capitalist'' (BW Investor, Aug. 14, 2000)
An Up Front List regarding Web site ad revenues (July 17, 2000)
 

TECHNOLOGY & YOU

Weighing the Ultralights
      PHOTO: Toshiba Portege 3480CT
      PHOTO: Gateway Solo 3300
      TABLE: Byte-Sized
A Theater in Your Hand
      PHOTO: Sony DVP-FX1 (left) and Panasonic DVD-LV75
      TABLE: Movies To Go
Help Desk
 

BOOKS

Behind the NYPD's Blue Wall of Silence
      PHOTO: Cover, ''NYPD''
 

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT

Compassionate Conservatism: Look beyond the Label
 

ECONOMIC TRENDS

  Merged Banks Grab Share
      CHART: Big Banks Take More of the Pie
  How to Stop Kids' Smoking
  What Asian Crisis?
  Love That Take-Out
      CHART: The Boom in Eating Out
 

BUSINESS OUTLOOK

  U.S.: All Quiet at the Fed, but the Trade Deficit Looms
      CHART: What's behind the Wider Trade Gap
      CHART: High Tech Leads the Pickup in Exports
      CHART: Outside of Energy, Inflation Is Benign
Canada: Will the Slowdown Satisfy Policymakers?
      CHART: Core Prices Should Remain Tame
 

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

Commentary: Airport Hell
      CHART: Mile-High Traffic Jams
      TABLE: Six Ways to Make Airlines Run Better
Will Bashing Business Keep Paying Off for Gore?
      TABLE: Gore Scores Big with Key Swing Voters
  Fighting to Stay on the Road
  Commentary: AT&T Can't Buy Its Way out of This Mess
      CHART: AT&T's Dealmaking Spree Has Not Helped the Share Price
For Microsoft, It's ''Inactive TV''
      TABLE: Microsoft's Set-Top Setbacks
Commentary: Needed: A New Union for the New Economy
      TABLE: Verizon's Pricey Peace
  Cadillac Hits the Gas
  And for His Next Trick...
  Uncle Sam Wants You--and So Does Pepsi
 

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK

  Warren Buffett: An Offer Steinberg May Refuse
  Housecleaning at Bank One
  A Brouhaha over Embryonic Cells
  MP3.com: One More Hurdle Cleared
  E*Trade: The High Cost of Growth
  Pager, Pager, Who's Got the Pager?
  Et Cetera...
  Tax Break
      CHART: Intuit Stock Price
 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Philips: In the Chips
      TABLE: Philips Semiconductor: To Spin or Not to Spin
      Time for Siemens' Mobile-Phone Biz to Roam?
  Inflation: The European Union's Untamable Dragon
      CHART: The Euro Zone: Rates Are Jumping...But Inflation Keeps Rising
Will Drivers Pay a Maxi Price for a Revamped Mini?
      PHOTO: The Newly Redesigned BMW Mini
  For the Chaebol, a Crawl toward Reform
      TABLE: Drowning in Debt
 

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

  A Catastrophe Casts a Pall over Putin
  Indonesia's New Lineup
 

SOCIAL ISSUES

  What's So Bad about a Living Wage?
      TABLE: Who's Paying a Living Wage?
 

SPORTS BUSINESS

  Little League, Big Dollars
      TABLE: If They Build It...
 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  Commentary: Herbal Remedies: This Market Is a Bit Too Free
      TABLE: Dubious Herb
 

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH

  And You Thought Intel's Old Chips Were Fast
  You Look Like a Monkey, and You Smell Like One, Too
  Take Two Polymers, and Call Me in the Morning
  Innovations
 

THE CORPORATION

  A Kmart Special: Better Service
      CHART: Kmart's Comeback Fizzles
      TABLE: Fixing Kmart's Problems
      ''It Doesn't Get Any Bigger Than This''
         RESUME: Charles ''Chuck'' C. Conaway
 

GOVERNMENT

  Commentary: This Tax Break Could Trigger a Trade War
      TABLE: How a Foreign Sales Corporation Works
 

FINANCE

Commentary: Dot-Com Business Models from Mars
  Will Investors Pull the Plug on ICN's Milan Panic?
      TABLE: Panic Time
A New Rule Book for Fund Managers
      CHART: Investors Flock to Barclays
      RESUME: Patricia Dunn
  Bank, Bank, Bank for the Home Team
      TABLE: The Banks' Baseball Connection
 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Behind the Mess at NBC's Floundering NBCi
      TABLE: NBCi's Trail of Troubles
 

MARKETING

  Riding High on Little Wheels
      TABLE: On a Roll
 

BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE

Short Jaunts, Lasting Memories
      TABLE: Online Help
New Orleans: Call It The Little Easy
      TABLE: Kidding Around
Memphis: The Great BBQ Debate
      TABLE: Savorin' the Flavors
Yangshuo: ''The Finest Scenery under Heaven''
      TABLE: Yangshuo Essentials
Palm Springs: An Oasis of Nostalgia in the Desert
      TABLE: The Digs
France: A Quiet Sip of Burgundy
Quebec: A Manor among the Maple Leaves
Brooklyn: The World Just over the Bridge
 

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR

Is Your Fund Too Fat?
      TABLE: Finding the Magic Number (extended)
 

BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO

Who Needs Razzle-Dazzle?
      TABLE: I Bonds Online
 

BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET

Zippier Bar Codes
      CHART: The Stock Is Still on Hold
Loral May Soar--but Not Just Yet
      CHART: Staying Close to Earth
Press 1 Now to Boost TeleTech
      CHART: No Place to Go but Up?
 

FIGURES OF THE WEEK

  Figures of the Week (.pdf)
      Production Index Components
      HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
 

EDITORIALS

  Al, George--What about the New Economy?
  Verizon: Good News and Bad
 

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON CAMBODIA

As Mass Tourism Heats Up...Locals Feel the Lure of Graft (int'l edition)
      MAP: Cambodia
 

INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM LISBON

Into the 21st Century...with Mixed Feelings (int'l edition)
      MAP: Lisbon, Portugal
 

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT

Corporate Disclosure Is Alive and Well in Great Britain (int'l edition)
Putin Needs the West's Support to Get the Job Done (int'l edition)
Cleaning Up Suzhou Creek Will Boost Quality of Life (int'l edition)
 

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS

The Crawl of Reform at Daewoo (int'l edition)
      TABLE: Drowning in Debt
Polishing the Diamond Business (int'l edition)
A Trucker Finds a Niche in Cyberspace (int'l edition)
      CHART: The ''Black Cat'' Leads the Pack
 

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS

Statoil No Longer Looks Sacred (int'l edition)
      TABLE: The Big Players in Norway's Oil Fields
The Luckiest Dot-Com (int'l edition)
      TABLE: History of an Offering
 

INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS

Empire Building: The Slow Track (int'l edition)
      TABLE: The Cisneros Network
 

INTERNATIONAL -- THE MIDDLE EAST

The Rough Road to Reform (int'l edition)
      TABLE: Syria at a Glance
      TABLE: Syria's Plans for Reform
 

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE

Inflation: Europe's Untamable Dragon (int'l edition)
      CHART: The Euro Zone: Rates Are Jumping...But Inflation Keeps Rising
 

INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK

International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
 

ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS

AUGUST 28, 2000
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