COVER STORY
Avon's New Calling CEO Andrea Jung wants to sell more than makeup--and not just door-to-door. Will her people buy it?
COVER IMAGE: The New Avon Lady
TABLE: From Ding-Dong to Dot-Com: 114 Years of Avon Ladies
RESUME: Andrea Jung
CHART: Avon Profits Are Rebounding...But Sales Have Barely Climbed...Making Investors Wary
The Man behind Avon's Web Site
Panning for Global Gold in Local Markets (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Are You Web Smart? What you can learn from 50 players using the Net in the most innovative ways
EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Are You Web Smart?
BUSINESS WEEK E.BIZ
Business Week e.biz
In our latest bonus supplement on electronic business: A Special Report on the Web Smart 50; Full disclosure: Corporate info on the Web; Personalities; Upstarts; And much more
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Media Melee, Junior Division
It's Cramer vs. the Peanut Gallery
TABLE: The New New Things
Shooting Legal Blanks
Ladies' Night Out--at the Garage
Everything's Coming Up Garlic
The Hit Parade Does Stonehenge
CHART: Who's Keeping the Beat? Boomers
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
A Creative Economy in the Service of What?
Where Eco-Cars Take a Wrong Turn
To Save Power, Give Consumers Smart Technology
Stanford on a Blacklist? They Don't Buy It
Brand-Building: Customers Will Always Come First
Another Point of View on AT&T
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''AT&T can't buy its way out of this mess'' (News: Analysis & Commentary, Sept. 4, 2000)
BOOKS
Reading Books Only for the Bottom Line
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Business of Books''
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
The Secrets & Lies of Cyber-Security
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
How to Eliminate the Marriage Tax Penalty--Fairly and Simply
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Where the U.S. Economy Lags
CHART: U.S. Compensation Hasn't Kept Pace
The Smoothing Effect of Taxes
E-Monetary Policy
CHART: E-Money Takes Hold Globally
INDUSTRY INSIDER
Why the Country Is So Power-Mad
CHART: Higher Voltage
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Will the Economy Heat Up in the Winter?
CHART: The Job Machine Is Slowing Down
CHART: Where Construction Outlays Have Sagged
CHART: Factories Experience More Downtime
Mexico: Politics Isn't Derailing This Economy
CHART: Fox Inherits a Sizzling Economy
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Ford: A Crisis of Confidence
TABLE: The Challenges Ahead
Commentary: The Hidden Culprit: The U.S. Legal System
''Bridgestone Just Doesn't Have a Clue How to Handle This''
CHART: Blowout
Commentary: Carmakers: Churning Them Out--Along with Defects
CHART: Recalls on the Rise
An Early Case of Holiday Blues
TABLE: Why Shoppers May Be Tightfisted This Year
Commentary: Measuring the Merits of Bush's Drug Plan
TABLE: Reading the Prescription
Housing Numbers That Don't Add Up
CHART: Mixed Signals
The Industry Will Pay for United's Deal with Pilots
Cutting AOL Time Warner Down to Size
TABLE: Hurdles for AOL Time Warner
Commentary: Online Privacy: Congress Has No Time to Waste
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Bernard Ebbers: Born to Shop
The Day the Free Music Died
A Difference of Opinion on the PC
Is Bristol-Myers Checkmated?
Lights! Camera! Bankruptcy!
Aetna: The New Doctor Is In
Et Cetera...
Fading Signals
CHART: Clear Channel Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
On the Hill, the Republicans Are a Team Divided
Taking Aim at Tinseltown
California Moves on E-Taxes
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
The Economy: Growing Like Gangbusters
CHART: Europe's Race with the U.S.
Commentary: A Weak Euro Isn't a Failed Euro
A Wireless Revolution Called Bluetooth
TABLE: The Ultimate Remote
Venezuela: ''Investors Are Arriving from Around the World'' (extended)
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Israel: Can a ''Secular Revolution'' Save the Peace Process?
Cracks in the Coalition
Competing for Dollars
THE CORPORATION
Can Office Depot Get Back on Track?
TABLE: Was Anyone Minding the Store?
MARKETING
To Reach the Unreachable Teen
TABLE: Get-a-Lifestyle Marketing
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Commentary: Cyber-Extortion Deserves No Quarter
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
This Baby-Infection Test Is Ready for Long Pants
Motherboards Get a Second Childhood
A Disorderly Plan for Nuclear Waste
Innovations
WORKING LIFE
The New Debate over Working Moms
TABLE: What Price Success?
Nannies on Speed Dial
TABLE: Mommy Inc.
Work at Home? First, Get Real
TABLE: Advice from the Front
GOVERNMENT
Is Al Gore the Voice of the People?
TABLE: Help from ''The Powerful''
Commentary: How Compassionate Is Bush's Tax Plan?
FINANCE
Financial Stocks: Suddenly Sexy
CHART: The Index Hits a 52-Week High
TABLE: Sectors Are on a Tear
TABLE: The Priciest Deals of 2000
An eBay of Deadbeats
TABLE: Buying Bum Loans on the Net
Commentary: Associates: Will the Purchase Make Sense for Citi?
SPECIAL REPORT
J.P. Morgan: Dressed for a Deal?
TABLE: CEO Warner Wants to Stay Independent...
TABLE: ...But J.P. Morgan's Strengths Could Make It a Target...
TABLE: ...Though at a Steep Price
TABLE: The Bank Is Chasing Growth and Improving Returns
CHART: Percent Return of Average Common Equity
Building the Anti-J.P. Morgan
ONLINE ORIGINAL: "We're Not Transforming Anymore -- We've Transformed"
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Commentary: Could Hydropower Come Rushing Back?
''There Is Not Enough Gas Around''
CHART: Gassing Up
CHART: Volatile? You Bet
Diesel Is Fueling a New Kind of Road Rage
CHART: Truck-Stop Blues
TABLE: Braking Diesel Exhaust
Gas Station Owners May Be Pumping Red Ink
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
Raising the Chocolate Bar Higher
TABLE: Sweet Secrets
TABLE: Dark Raptures
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
How Lockups Can Leave You Out in the Cold
TABLE: Unlocking the Secrets of Lockups
Hedge-like Funds for Just Plain Folks
TABLE: Hedge-Fund Wannabes
Put Yourself in the Driver's Seat
TABLE: Negotiating Tips
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
E*Trade Left Him Twisting in the Wind
TABLE: Gripe Sites
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Kemet: A Power Play
CHART: The Stock Has Yet to Wake Up
American States: Not Treading Water
CHART: The Pressure Is Mounting
Overseas Suitors for Ultramar?
CHART: Sliding Around
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Production Index Components
HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
EDITORIALS
Lessons from the Tire Fiasco
Don't Rush to Regulate Net Access
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE
Europe's Struggling Travel Mecca...Heads Straight for Tomorrowland (int'l edition)
MAP: France
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM BHUTAN
Land of Ancient Ways and the Internet (int'l edition)
MAP: Bhutan
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Gulliver's new travels: HSBC's investment banking chief is on a rescue mission'' (Finance, Aug. 14, 2000) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
In Asia, the Dot-Coms Are Clicking on ''Exit'' (int'l edition)
CHART: Falling Stars
Zee TV: Looking for a Few Good ''Millionaires'' (int'l edition)
CHART: Zee Telefilms Cools Off
Cell Phones: Samsung Goes for the Frills (int'l edition)
CHART: Cell Phones: The World Leaders
PHOTO: Samsung's Uproar Phone/MP3 Player Hybrid
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Is BMW Building a Hydrogen Bombshell? (int'l edition)
TABLE: Who's Putting Hydrogen in Your Tank
What Does a Knife Do When the Cutting's Done? (int'l edition)
PHOTO: Minifridge from Electrolux
TABLE: Turning Around Electrolux
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
Firing Up Latin Consumers (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- AMERICAN NEWS
''Bridgestone Just Doesn't Have a Clue How to Handle This'' (int'l edition)
CHART: Blowout
TABLE: Yoichiro Kaizaki
TABLE: Profits Plunge Globally...
TABLE: ...And Locally
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Would You Lend Money to Argentina? (int'l edition)
CHART: Argentina's Growth Has Been Stop and Go...And Its Public Debt Has Only Increased
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
Higher Rates Are Hampering Europe (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2000
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