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• Chapter 2 at Pearson It took a bold Texan to finally shake up Britain's Pearson. But can CEO Marjorie Scardino transform it into a global colossus? COVER IMAGE: Pearson's Big Bet TABLE: Pearson's Growing Empire TABLE: Scardino the Dealmaker RESUME: Marjorie Scardino PHOTO: Marjorie Scardino The Financial Times Takes On the World Online Extra: Scardino: "It Is Not Enough to Be a Content Company" • The Last True Believer (int'l edition) Unfazed by the tech slump, Softbank's Masayoshi Son is thinking bigger • Business Week e.biz In this edition: Richard Branson's Virgin takes e-wing; Special Report: Do e-ads have a future? Dot-coms that are gone but not forgotten. And more Talk Show The Day the Music Died Friendly Skies Indeed Why Detroit's Loss Is Japan's Gain TABLE: To Be Rich, Gifted, and Black Insurance Imitates Art Overloaded with the Overweight Golf Balls: The Core Debate PHOTO: Wilson Wound Golf Balls CHART: Spending Power of African Americans: Up, Up, Up Footnotes • The Stealing of the Presidency • This Court's Activism Is Just More of the Same • Maybe Greenspan Doesn't See All and Know All • Invest--but Don't Throw Away the Taxpayers' Money • An E-Lancer's Ode to a Steady Paycheck • Keep Global Warmniks Away from National Energy Policy • Axing the Oldsmobile: A Baffling Move • Why the Net Is No Death Knell for Car Dealers • Investment Outlook Scoreboard (Cover Story, Dec. 25, 2000/Jan. 1, 2001) • Genomics: From Birth to Big Business PHOTO: Cover, ''Cracking the Genome'' • At Last, the Laptop Mold Is Broken PHOTO: IBM TransNote TABLE: TransNote Highlights • Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones... • Slowdown: Not If, but How Long CHART: The 1990s: A Buying Binge for the Record Books • What the Payroll Data May Hide CHART: Illusory Job Gains? • Who Gains Most by Job-Hopping? A Printer Makes Peace with the Digital Age CHART: R.R. Donnelley & Sons • U.S.: The Doomsayers Might Be Jumping the Gun CHART: Manufacturing Is Skewing the Job Data CHART: Inventories Start to Pile Up CHART: Jobless Claims Signal a Looser Labor Market • Canada: A Chill Wind from the South CHART: Job Growth Remains Strong • The Ever-Shrinking Skies TABLE: Airline Consolidation: Will It Help or Hurt? VIDEO: Interview with American Airlines CEO Donald J. Carty Why Carl Icahn Wants to Spoil American's Deal Trying to Break the Energy Choke Hold TABLE: Sticker Shock Commentary: California: It Didn't Have to Be This Way Not So Fast with That Tax Cut, Pardner TABLE: Bush's ''Recession Insurance'' Tax Cut • Commentary: Why a Second-Half Slump Could Still Kick In Commentary: Software Makers Hit the Endangered List TABLE: Which Companies Are Likely to Do Well? • A Break in the Weather for Microsoft? Not for Long CHART: Growing Pains Douglas Conant: In the Soup FedEx Finds an Overnight Partner Investors Can't Help Loving Amazon Priceline and Expedia Bury the Ax Rubbermaid's CEO Search Is Over Nasdaq vs. NYSE: The SEC Weighs In Et Cetera... Xerox Repair CHART: Xerox Stock Price Let's All Work Together--Once We've Nuked Bush's Cabinet Running Out of Energy Revisiting Reimports Consolation Prize? • Will a Weaker Yen Strengthen Japan? CHART: A Tale of Two Currencies • Commentary: It's Time to Cut NTT Down to Size TABLE: The Last Keiretsu • Seoul: So Long, Corporate Reform TABLE: A Growing List of Rescues • Commentary: Germany Should Hang On to an Old Hell-Raiser Star Wars II: Less Ambitious, So More Likely? Not-So-Stubborn Swedes? Look Who Backs a Tube Strike John Dillon's High-Risk Paper Chase TABLE: Buying Tear CHART: IP's Sales Soar on Acquisitions...But Its Profits Can't Keep Pace ONLINE EXTRA: Smurfit-Stone's Ray Curran: "We Would Like Stability" A Designer Protein That Wards Off the AIDS Virus When You Have to Get to Mars in a Hurry... A Water-Treatment Plant for Every Office Building? Monitoring the Spread of Fire Ants • Is Nokia's Star Dimming? TABLE: Nokia's New Firmament CHART: Nokia Isn't the Biggest...But It's Growing Fast...And Profits Are Strong Motorola Can't Seem to Get out of Its Own Way CHART: Back to Square One • Where the Rate Cut Is Really Working Its Magic CHART: Credit Spreads: Sky-High but Edging Down TABLE: Leaders in the Junk Pack I'll Take a CD with That Life Policy, Please TABLE: Elbowing into Banking • Commentary: Why E-Brokers Are Broker and Broker How Long Will Motown Be Motown? TABLE: Driving Away from Home A Sea Change in the Search for Water TABLE: Tapping the Ocean Will Light Bulbs Go the Way of the Victrola? TABLE: Early Adopters How Many Magazines Did We Buy Today? TABLE: Shaking It Up at G+J • A Better Way to Size Up Your Nest Egg TABLE: Will You Have Enough? TABLE: Monte Carlo Resources • The Ins and Outs of Cash Flow TABLE: A Map of the Cash-Flow Statement TABLE: The Heart of the Statement TABLE: Does a Company Rely on Outsiders? • Househusbands Unite! • Not All Junk Stocks Are Garbage TABLE: New Player • Should You Inhale? CHART: In the Biotech Doldrums • Inprise Looks Set to Click Again CHART: Better Prospects with a New Chief • Bidding for Gehl May Heat Up Again CHART: Scrambling Out of a Trough • Figures of the Week (.pdf) The Week Ahead Production Index Components Nasdaq Crashed. The New Economy Didn't The Repairing of America • North Karelia Is Stuck in a Freeze...But Wartime Frost Is Thawing (int'l edition) MAP: Finland Spinning Precious Metal out of Hot, Thin Air (int'l edition) MAP: Kuril Islands Power Cables That Squeeze More Juice into Less Space (int'l edition) Might As Well Call All His Movies Blow-Up (int'l edition) Innovations (int'l edition) • Has Amazon Lost Its Place? (int'l edition) • A Latin Free-Trade Pact Would Harm Asia (int'l edition) • Beating the Drum for the Dollar in Ecuador (int'l edition) • Thailand's Man of the Businesspeople (int'l edition) TABLE: The Thaksin Empire • It's Time to Jam at BMG (int'l edition) TABLE: Bertelsmann's New Music Man • International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
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