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COVER STORY
The Best B-Schools Our most thorough survey yet -- including a new measure: A B-school's brainpower. Plus, rankings for the top seven non-U.S. schools, info on "business incubators," and much more

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Euro Crisis Europe's experiment in monetary union is showing dangerous signs of drift. But there is a way out
COVER IMAGE: Euro Crisis
TABLE: Unfinished Business
TABLE: Europe's Reserves
CHART: Shadows over Europe
Europe's Cash Is Flooding into the U.S.
CHART: Europe's Money: America-Bound
Denmark: The Vote That Could Roar

UP FRONT
Talk Show
Buy This Pontiac, Whippersnapper
A Little Box Worth $500 Million
Mini Music Heats Up
TABLE: Sour Notes
Behind the Euro's Swoon
Room Service--and a Cash Rebate
Heads Up, Lieberman Fans!
PHOTO: 2000 Lieberman Yarmulke
CHART: Which Way Is the Internet?
Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
The Best Gets Even Better

READERS REPORT
Shareholders Have Power: It's Up to Them to Use It
A Better Route to Higher Labor Standards
The Skyrocketing Cost of Bio Invaders
No Johnny-Come-Lately to Electronic Trading

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''The investor's champion'' (Cover Story, Sept. 25, 2000)
''Stand up and fight'' (International Business, Sept. 11, 2000)
''Bio invasion'' (Special Report, Sept. 11, 2000)
''A new rule book for fund managers'' (Finance, Sept. 4, 2000)

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Can Microsoft Stamp Out Piracy?

BOOKS
A Plague of Indifference
PHOTO: Cover, ''Betrayal of Trust''
Foul Play Redux
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Great Olympic Swindle''

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Attention Consumers: Creativity Never Comes Cheap

ECONOMIC TRENDS
Are Surpluses Hurting Savings?
CHART: Waning Household Savings: The U.S. Isn't Alone
Health Plans Feel the Boom
CHART: Health Coverage Spurts Higher
Web Discounts Are Still Hefty

INDUSTRIAL MONITOR
Spinning Precious Metal out of Hot, Thin Air
MAP: Kuril Islands
Power Cables That Squeeze More Juice into Less Space
Might As Well Call All His Movies Blow-Up
Innovations

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Look What's Moving Off the Back Burner
CHART: A Pickup in Inflation beyond Energy
GRAPHIC: The Broad Speedup in Service Prices
CHART: Builders See Some Pickup in Housing
Spain: The Economy Is Getting Too Hot to Handle
CHART: Growing Price Pressure

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Global Economic Trouble Ahead?
CHART: Points of Vulnerability
Inflation? Nah. It's a Slowdown That's Spooking Bonds
CHART: Yields Begin to Rise
Commentary: The Four Horsemen of the New Economy
CHART: Riders on the Storm
Did Ford Mislead Congress?
A Trustbuster Looks Back
Commentary: Keep the Lid on the Strategic Oil Reserve
TABLE: Why Open the Tap?
Commentary: Most of Gillette's Bleeding Is Self-Inflicted
CHART: As Earnings Fell Off Track...Shareholders Got Creamed
Commentary: Now AIG Can Get Serious about Succession

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
George Bell: How Much Longer @Home?
A Promising AIDS Drug from Abbott
Disney Rewrites Its Toy Story
A New Gig for Bill Bradley
Harry Potter and the Magic Shares
Pro Air Lets Auto Workers Down
Et Cetera...
Sprint PCS: Slowing Down
CHART: Sprint PCS Stock Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
The Presidential Debates: Don't Underestimate George W.
Ads Become an Issue
Stock-Option Taxes
Auto Talks with Japan

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Who'll Tow Daewoo?
CHART: The Daewoo Debt Overhang
A Scary New Day in Lima
TABLE: What's Next for Peru?

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Saddam May Soon Unleash His Best Weapon: Oil Blackmail
Big Vote for China Trade

ECONOMICS
Commentary: Gentlemen, Before You Give Away That ''Surplus''...
TABLE: What Bush and Gore Will Really Have to Work With

SPORTS BUSINESS
Commentary: Olympics Coverage: The Agony of Delay
Commentary: Selling World Peace at $55 Million a Pop

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Meet AMD's Rags-to-Riches Heir Apparent
CHART: Advanced Micro Devices Is Gaining Market Share...
RESUME: Hector de Jesus Ruiz
IBM's Hottest Product Isn't a Product
TABLE: IBM at Your Service: How Big Blue Stacks Up

SOCIAL ISSUES
Inside a Chinese Sweatshop: ''A Life of Fines and Beating''
MAP: China
TABLE: What Are the Auditors Missing?

THE CORPORATION
Running the House That Jack Built
CHART: Tough Act to Follow
General Electric's Poster Boy
RESUME: Jeffrey R. Immelt
The Jet-Powered Candidate
RESUME: W. James McNerney Jr.
Long Hours--And Long Odds
RESUME: Robert L. Nardelli

FINANCE
The Bull Is Only on a Break
CHART: Reversal of Fortune
How Does a 22,000 Dow Sound to You?
Out of Options
TABLE: Unreal Prices?

SPECIAL REPORT
Honda's Independent Streak
CHART: Honda Is One of the Most Efficient Carmakers...
Why Workers Are Lining Up for Jobs at This GM Plant
How Architects Are Giving Jeep New Traction
''A Revolution Is Occurring''
TABLE: The Road to 2010

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Tuberculosis Roars Back
TABLE: New Weapons, Old Enemy

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
How Genes Can Tailor a Patient's Drug Regimen
Beyond Shoplifting Prevention
Edging Closer to Gene Therapy's Holy Grail
Forget Windmills, Here Comes Turkey Power

GOVERNMENT
Commentary: Who Has the Better Health-Care Plan?

BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Annuities: Getting Rid of the Middle Man
TABLE: A Menu of Low-Cost Contracts
Only Halfway Home?
TABLE: Bargain Builders
''Chicks Laying Nest Eggs'' Hatch a Site
TABLE: A Winning Plan

BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
A Peek at a Picky Fund's Latest Buys
TABLE: Sequoia Selects

BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Goldman & Schwab?
Why Juniper Has Some Backbone
CHART: Gaining Market Share
Covad Is So Cheap It May Be Up for Grabs
CHART: Waiting to Connect

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

EDITORIALS
Why We're at OPEC's Mercy
Bringing Stability to the Euro

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON TAIWAN
Trash Becomes a Burning Issue...As Poisoned Water Raises Fears (int'l edition)
MAP: Taiwan

INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM VERMONT
A Farm of His Own (int'l edition)
MAP: Vermont

INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM FREEHOLD, N.J.
The Boss Grew Up Here--but Mum's the Word (int'l edition)
MAP: New Jersey

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
AOL Latin America: Off to a Strong Start (int'l edition)
Directors Have Lost Their Pay-For-Performance Focus (int'l edition)
Customer Satisfaction Depends on More Than Speed (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Severe Oil Shock (int'l edition)
CHART: Where Dependence Is High...The Impact Is Heavy

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Tony's Fall from Grace (int'l edition)
CHART: Satisfaction with Blair Sinks
Thomson: From Humdrum to Razzle-Dazzle (int'l edition)
TABLE: Reinventing Thomson Multimedia
Lighting a Fire under Marks & Sparks (int'l edition)
TABLE: Turnaround Tactics
Bye-Bye Babushkas (int'l edition)
TABLE: Why Russia's ''Shuttle Traders'' Are Going Out of Business

INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
Will OPEC Go Along with Chavez' Ambitions? (int'l edition)
CHART: Regaining Lost Ground

INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
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The Investor's Champion
September 18, 2000
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