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COVER STORY
The Economy: Passing a Dimmer Torch The next President will likely have to deal with a fading expansion
COVER IMAGE: The New President's Economy
CHART: Growth Slows...As Tech Demand Weakens...Manufacturing Dips...
CHART: ...The Stock Market Declines...The Trade Gap Explodes...And Corporate Debt Surges
TABLE: Turbulence Ahead
The Alan Greenspan of OPEC?
CHART: Fill 'Er Up
Can the Market Regain Its Balance?
CHART: Scaling Back Expectations
CHART: Losing the Investor Vote
TABLE: The View from Four Wall Street Gurus
Commentary: The Pitfalls of One Person, One Vote
TABLE: Where the Votes Are
TABLE: No Electoral College
Sleight of Hand at the Polls
TABLE: Tricks of the Trade
Is There Any Help for the ''Hanging Chad''?
Commentary: The Young and the (Still) Listless
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
Asia's Future (int'l edition) It's set for a new technology-driven leap forward, but huge problems remain
COVER IMAGE: Asia's Tech Future
TABLE: The Tech Future
Beyond the Lab (int'l edition)
CHART: Startup Explosion
The Chips Are Up (int'l edition)
TABLE: Betting Big
Chasing the Dream to Shanghai (int'l edition)
Minds over Matter (int'l edition)
CHART: Going, Going...
A Biotech Hub (int'l edition)
CHART: Genetic Express
Rewriting the Rules (int'l edition)
TABLE: Vietnam's IT Plan
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Workers in Bondage (int'l edition) Europeans are only now learning of the horror of widespread sweatshops that use forced immigrant labor
COVER IMAGE: Workers in Bondage
TABLE: The Route to Europe
TABLE: A Year of Raids
Witnesses to a Murder (int'l edition)
Italy: Center of the New Slave Trade (int'l edition)
ONLINE EXTRA: Workers in Bondage: A Photo Essay
EDITOR'S MEMO
Honoring Our Web Site
UP FRONT
Talk Show
The Big Mac Looks a Little Green
AT&T Debacle? What Debacle?
The Name of This Game Is--The Name
TABLE: Desk Rage
Moving Off of Welfare--by Bus
A Virtual ''Vacancy'' Sign
The Ultimate Scooter Returns
CHART: The Online Blues
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Global Capitalism Needs Some Fine-Tuning
Voluntary Food Labeling Is Working for Consumers
Competition Could Only Improve Public Schools
Weighing in on the Alaskan Wilderness Debate
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''A compromise from the crusader'' (Finance, Nov. 13, 2000)
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Resist the Pressure to Spend the Surplus
ECONOMIC TRENDS
New Ammo in the Gun Debate
CHART: Arms and Violence: Three Related Trends?
Redefining Core Inflation
Startups: Where the Action Is
CHART: Creative Crosscurrents
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
The Election: How the Web Blew It
TABLE: Rating the Election Sites
BOOKS
The Moral Perils of Permanent Plenty
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Virtue of Prosperity''
When Egos Deferred to Duty
PHOTO: Cover, ''Founding Brothers''
INDUSTRY MONITOR
Cranking Up the Juice in Your Car
Radio Waves Could Turn Bar Codes into Has-Beens
Faster Trains May Bring Star Wars Down to Earth
Innovations
INDUSTRY INSIDER
A Driving Force behind Tomorrow's Greener Cars
CHART: Off the Road
PHOTO: Toyota Prius
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: This Political Shock Won't Upset the Soft Landing
CHART: A Sharp Slowdown in Retail Activity
CHART: The Waning Wealth Effect
CHART: Where Factory Production Is Weakest
South Korea: The Pain Means Reforms Are Kicking In
CHART: Factory Output Is Downshifting
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Can Fiorina Reboot HP?
CHART: Carly's Crisis
Commentary: How Levitt Won the Accounting Wars
TABLE: What Levitt Got
Daimler's Designated Driver
CHART: So Much for German Engineering
Commentary: You've Got the New Economy All Wrong, Mr. Gerstner
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Walter Isaacson: Time Passage
PHOTO: Walter Isaacson
Verizon Sees Blue Sky Ahead
MP3.Com Signs a Peace Treaty
Lightening the Load at CMGI
FedEx Hitches Up a New Trucker
Will ICG Have to Pull the Plug?
Et Cetera...
Morning After
CHART: Bank of America Stock Price
THE CORPORATION
Can Home Depot Get Its House in Order?
CHART: As Home Depot's Growth Slows...Its Stock Has Been Hammered
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
It's a Nano World
TABLE: Just Like Child's Play
The Ultimate Library
Rainbow's End
Mix and Meld
Atomic Skyscrapers
From a Volcano to Your Washing Machine--and Beyond
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Introduction
Don't Take Off on an Empty Stomach
Perils of the Sporadic Workout
Bad Gums, Bad Heart? Could Be
Innovations
WORKPLACE
Commentary: Labor's Labors Aren't Lost
TABLE: Gridlock: The Unions' Friend?
MARKETING
Gotta Get That Gatorade
CHART: Brand Gatorade
GOVERNMENT
A Wave of Scandals in Puerto Rico
TABLE: Bribery, Fraud, & Worse
TABLE: Tapping Puerto Rico
SPORTS BUSINESS
Tiger vs. the PGA: How Serious Is It?
TABLE: The Importance of Having Tiger
Teeing Off in the Inner City
MANAGEMENT
GE Capital's E-Biz Farm Team
TABLE: GE Capital Goes Back to School
PHOTO ESSAY
Monsters of the Deep
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Lazard and Mediobanca: Shocks to the System (int'l edition)
GRAPHIC: Mediobanca's Ties
GRAPHIC: Lazard's Web
Whither Europe? Ask Felix Rohatyn
An About-Face at Aventis
TABLE: Revamping Aventis
How Much Is That Robot in the Window?
Commentary: Japan: This Time, the Rebel with a Cause Could Win
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Mexico: Can Fox Govern with the PRI in a Shambles?
Going Private
Sigh of Relief in Spain
MEDIA
Can Liberty Media Get Its Groove Back?
TABLE: Malone's Incredible Shrinking Portfolio
How AOL Time Warner Will Shake Up the Net
TABLE: Vying for Access
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BW's Info Tech 100: Who's Still Standing?
A 20-Year-Old Overnight Success
TABLE: Rational Software
SONICblue Is Singing a New Song
TABLE: SONICblue (Formerly S3)
TABLE: The Info Tech 100
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Where's My Dream Car?
CHART: Kicking the Tires over the Wires
How the Web Is Retooling Detroit
GRAPHIC: A PTC Project in Progress
TABLE: Forecasting an Automotive E2E Revolution
Conservation: Been There, Doing That
PHOTO: Laser Cutters Are Helping to Save Big Bucks in the High-Energy Industry
CHART: More Bang for the Buck
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
SUVs: Say Good-bye to the Shake, Rattle, and Roll
TABLE: Four of the New Utes
Staying Out of the Tax Twilight Zone
TABLE: ABCs of the AMT
For This Tax Break, Should You Hold ''HOLDRS''?
Merrill's Tech Guru Draws the Big Picture
TABLE: Merrill's Top Tech Picks
Your Money and Your Life Insurance
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
The Unsung Hero of Fund Investors
RESUME: Mercer Bullard
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Juicing Up Caminus
Is Gehl Heading for a Harvest?
CHART: A Long Dry Spell
Voting Machines Florida Would Love
CHART: More Investors May Say Aye
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Production Index Components
EDITORIALS
The Economic Challenge Ahead
The Big Five's Chance at Self-Regulation
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON BULGARIA
Where Fakery Is an Art Form...There's No Help to Kick the Habit (int'l edition)
MAP: Bulgaria
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM BUDAPEST
Will They Gentrify the Jewish Quarter? (int'l edition)
MAP: Budapest
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Weighing in on the Alaskan Wilderness Debate (int'l edition)
Global Capitalism Needs Some Fine-Tuning (int'l edition)
Colombia: Signs of Progress in the Contraband Fight (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''This is 'the big one' for Brazilian banking'' (Latin American Business, Nov. 20, 2000) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Is Hyundai About to Topple, Too? (int'l edition)
TABLE: Hyundai's Mess
The Philippine President Who Won't Go Away (int'l edition)
CHART: The Estrada Effect
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
From World-Class to World-Class Disaster (int'l edition)
TABLE: Busting Up a Former Belgian Highflier
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
The Internet Party Didn't Last Long (int'l edition)
CHART: Latin Net Stocks Head South
The Panic Has Subsided--but Not the Debt (int'l edition)
CHART: Argentine Roller Coaster
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
How Asia Can Rev Up Its Engine (int'l edition)
Shut Down Europe's Sweatshops. Now (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
November 6, 2000
Commentary: Old Retail Laws + New Economy = Big Mess
November 20, 2000
Last Days of the Industrial Raj?
Online Highlights from page 10 of this issue
Magazine Forums
Cover Illustration by Denis Lau.
ASIAN Cover by Mick Wiggins.
EUROPEAN Cover by Marshall Arisman.
For articles in the November 27 domestic edition previously published in international editions
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