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COVER STORY
Bertelsmann: A New Net Powerhouse? Its deal with Napster could kick-start a bold plan for the media and entertainment giant
COVER IMAGE: A New Net Powerhouse?
TABLE: The Deal
TABLE: The Building Blocks of Bertelsmann
TABLE: Dueling Net Strategies
The Man behind Project Thunderball
Commentary: Napster: Tune In, Turn On, Pay Up
ONLINE EXTRA: Middelhoff: ''Somebody Has to Take the Lead''
TECH BUYING GUIDE
The New Wireless Wonders
PCs: What If It Breaks?
TABLE: Desktops: Best of Breed
TABLE: How the Warranties Stack Up
Cool Tools: iFeel MouseMan
Help Is Just an E-Mail Away
TABLE: How to Hook Up with a Nerd
If Web Surfing Is All You're Into...
Artistic Apples
Notebooks: Take It with You
TABLE: The Lowdown on the Latest Laptops
Cool Tools: Computer Safe
Test Drive: Cutting the Cord at Last
ONLINE EXTRA: Staying Connected on the Road
Handhelds: Pocket Rockets
TABLE: Wireless Acts
Cool Tools: Slimpoint Stylus
ONLINE EXTRA: Modo's Mojo Falling
Web Phones: A Long Way to Go
TABLE: Getting on the Wireless Web
Cool Tools: M130 Headset
Test Drive: ''Turn Off That Coat!''
ONLINE EXTRA: Part PDA, Part Phone, and Pretty Tricky
Net Services: It's Not Just News
TABLE: Who Offers What
Cool Tools: Palm Portable Keyboard
E-Mail with No Wires Attached
Vortal Combat: The Early Years
TABLE: Let Your Voice Do the Browsing
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Who Is the Fairest Guru of Them All?
Chrysler: Not Quite So Equal
Steve Case Wants Your Vote
TABLE: But the Money Doesn't Hurt
When Aisle Seat Eyes Are Prying
PHOTO: inViso eShades
Bush Leads Gore in the Doodad Vote
Nobody's Watching Your Every Move
CHART: Day-Care Squeeze
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Reviewing the Case against KPMG
Hizzoner Says: ''Life Is Good in Chicago''
You Can't Wait for the Final Numbers to Protect Drivers
''Priceline.com Is Making the Right Decisions''
Fixing Corporate America's Service Problem
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Financial services: No ordinary downturn'' (News: Analysis & Commentary, Oct. 30, 2000)
''Do CEOs vote? Not always--and not often'' (Government, Nov. 6, 2000)
BOOKS
Why the World's Poor Stay That Way
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Mystery of Capital''
Pushing the Web to the Speed of Light
PHOTO: Cover, ''Telecosm''
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Audrey: Cute, but No Raving Beauty
TABLE: Hello, Audrey Katherine Lambert
PHOTO: 3Com Ergo Audrey
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
As Business Goes Global, Antitrust Should, Too
ECONOMIC TRENDS
The Economy's Achilles' Heel?
CHART: Scant Growth in America's Engineering Ranks
Yes, Workers Are Grumpier
The U.S. Loses a Trading Edge
CHART: Shifting Labor Costs
INDUSTRY MONITOR
An Iron-Enriched Sea of Slime to Cool the Planet?
Why Blue-Collar Workers Still Have the Jitters
The Not-So-Shocking News about Power: It's Cheaper
CHART: Is This a Crisis?
Innovations
INDUSTRY INSIDER
''The Old Economy Is the New Economy''
TABLE: Hidden Gold
PHOTO: Automated Manufacturing
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Taking the Pulse of the Slowdown
CHART: Demand Is Cooling Off from Its Red-Hot Pace
CHART: Oil and Stock Prices Roil Households
CHART: Benefits Continue to Push Up Labor Costs
Canada: How a Fiscal Boost Could Play Out Next Year
CHART: Inflation Is under Control
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Is Productivity Still Pumped Up?
CHART: A Cloud over Productivity Growth?
The Little Guys Take a Breather
CHART: Small-Business Worries?
GM Wants to Reinvent the Small Car
Commentary: It's Getting Lonely at the Top. Too Lonely
CHART: Help Wanted
Commentary: The New Feature Microsoft Needs Most: Safeguards
The Bushdaq vs. the Goredex
TABLE: How Investors Could Fare...
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
William P. Sovey: A Three-Year Coffee Break
Viacom Views Another Target
DoCoMo Is Calling On AT&T
The Yeast in First Union's Numbers
Dot-Coms' Loss, Biotech's Gain
Can Aetna Cure Its HMO?
Et Cetera...
One Fell Swoop
CHART: WorldCom Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
High Tech's Honeymoon on the Hill May Be about to End
Art Does Pay
No Bars to Voting
Painkillers vs. a Tax Cut
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Japanese High Tech Roars Again
CHART: Earnings Up, Stock Prices Down
What's That Knocking under Mercedes' Hood?
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Is NATO about to Make a Bad Move in the Baltics?
Hyundai's Latest Woes
Mideast Hacker Wars
SPECIAL REPORT
Ford's Rouge Redesign
PHOTO: Ford's Rouge Plant, 1930
PHOTO: Computer Rendering of Rouge Assembly Plant with Skylights, 2000
MEDIA
Stealing a March on the Networks
TABLE: Players in the Digital Derby
THE CORPORATION
What Really Happened to the Class of GE
TABLE: Grading the GE Alumni Club
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Cell Pathways: Blockbuster or Bust
TABLE: Breaching Cancer's Defense
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Robot Planes Will Scout Storms in the Lonely Pacific
PHOTO: Aerosonde Robot Plane
Have a (Virtual Reality) Ball
These Mice Hardly Ever Ask to Be Excused
Innovations
GOVERNMENT
Who's Giving All That Soft Money
TABLE: Voting with Their Checkbooks
TABLE: Vested Interests
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The Domain Name Biz: www.dud.com
TABLE: Gloomy Picture
MANAGEMENT
Will United's Woes Spread?
CHART: While Service Woes Slam United's Customers...
CHART: ...And Slow the Airline's Growth...Wall Street Punishes Its Missteps
TABLE: How United's Labor Woes Are Spreading
The DC Air Deal: More Likely to Stall Than Fly
ONLINE EXTRA: United's James Goodwin: ''We Didn't Cave''
FINANCE
An Accounting Compromise from Crusader Levitt
TABLE: Auditing Deal
A Talk with a Father of the Euro
CHART: The Euro's Long Slide
In Chicago, the Euro Is Magnifico
CHART: A Sudden Slowdown in a Hot Market
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Diesels Are the New Thing--Again
CHART: Powering Up
Testing, Testing...Systems Are Go
TABLE: Testing 1, 2, 3
MARKETING
Hold On--What Make of Alternator Is That?
TABLE: Car Parts: From No Name to Brand Name
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Making the Best of Your Clunkers
TABLE: Trading for Tax Losses
Keep Your Eyes on Consumers
CHART: Two Views of Inflation
TABLE: Tracking Consumers' Income and Outgo
Picking a Health Plan: Inertia Can Be Costly
TABLE: Help in Reviewing Your Options
A Street Legend Sets Up Shop on the Net
RESUME: Muriel (Mickie) Siebert
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
'Tis Better to Give--Really
TABLE: Smart Charity: More and More Choices
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Smithfield: Fat City
CHART: Bringing Home the Bacon
Midas Is Muffled--and May Draw Bids
CHART: The Engine Sputters
''A Creeping Takeover'' of Midway Games?
CHART: Hardly on a Roll
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Production Index Components
EDITORIALS
Why CEO Churn Is Healthy
The Wisdom of Alan Greenspan
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON MALAYSIA
This Race Is a Coup for Mahathir...But Cyberjaya Isn't Up to Speed (int'l edition)
MAP: Malaysia
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM FRANCE
A Vineyard's Bitter Fruit (int'l edition)
MAP: France
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Consumers Need a Bigger Slice of the Pie (int'l edition)
With Employment High, Italy Doesn't Need Immigrant Labor (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Japanese Racetracks Are Fading in the Stretch (int'l edition)
CHART: Race to the Bottom
Don't Write Off This Billionaires' Boys Club (int'l edition)
TABLE: Dial P for Profit
Another Casualty of Jakarta's Crony Capitalism (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Daimler and VW: Changing Fortunes (int'l edition)
CHART: VW's Rise
Daewoo Giveth, and Daewoo Taketh Away (int'l edition)
TABLE: Tremors on the Assembly Line
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
Saving the Forest for the Trees (int'l edition)
TABLE: The Forestry Stewardship Council
INTERNATIONAL -- THE MIDDLE EAST
Violence May Also Leave Scars on Israeli High Tech (int'l edition)
CHART: Israel Loses Its Luster
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
A Virtual Home Run in Japan? (int'l edition)
TABLE: A Better Banking Deal
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
Taking Hong Kong to Task (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
November 6, 2000
Ericsson Still Has a Dial Tone
Sweden's Dot-Com Deep Freeze
Online Highlights from page 12 of this issue
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Cover Photograph by Graham Trott
For articles in the November 13 domestic edition previously published in international editions
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