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• The Radical Carly Fiorina's bold management experiment at HP COVER IMAGE: The Radical CHART: HP Stock Price GRAPHIC: HP the Fiorina Way TABLE: Carly to HP: Snap to It ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Carly Fiorina ONLINE EXTRA: HP Sees the Future -- and It's Printing VIDEO: Q&A Carly Fiorina and BW's Steve Shepard • e.biz Supplement In our latest electronic business report: How the tech crash is slamming VCs; Europe's I-TV advantage; selling home-improvement gear on the Web; Yahoo!'s Jeff Mallett; and lots more Talk Show Frankensmokes? Not in Dixie A Bear of a Virus in Hibernation This Mac Upgrade Needs Upgrading TABLE: Top Five Whoppers Told to VCs Be a Real Millionaire Do You Want Stamps with That Duck? Holiday Inn Has Just the Ticket CHART: Keeping Tabs on Employees Online Footnotes • Verdicts on Our Coverage of Trial Lawyers • Value Funds Elbowed Their Way onto the ''A'' List • America Needs to Do More about Mad Cow • Higher Fares Would Fix U.S. Air Travel • Robert Johnson Is Flying on a Wing and a Prayer • ''Can bond funds do it again?'' (Mutual Fund Scoreboard, Feb. 5, 2001) • Web Encrypters 1, Big Brother 0 PHOTO: Cover, ''Crypto'' • The Best-Sellers of 2000 • A Phone That Wants to Be More PHOTO: Ericsson's R380 Phone • The Surplus? Make It a National Savings Account • A Voltmeter for Volatility CHART: More Jitters for Utilities • Give Taxpayers a $250 Rebate • Bankruptcy? So What? CHART: Bankruptcies Still Sky-High Q&A: A Veteran of the Auto-Parts Wars Comes Riding to the Rescue TABLE: Detroit's Supplier Army • U.S.: The Slowdown May Be Nasty but Short CHART: The Factory Recession Worsens CHART: Banks Raise the Bar for Credit CHART: Car-Buying Rebounded in January • France: Looking Fitter Than Its Neighbors CHART: Households Show Record Optimism Downturn in Fast-Forward CHART: As Manufacturing Slumps...Inventories Are Building Up...And Capital Spending Is Falling Jobs: How Long Can Services Pick Up the Slack? CHART: A Tale of Two Economies What a Dumpfest CHART: Overstocked The Tax Cut: Just How Big Will This Pie Get? TABLE: Angling for a Piece Commentary: Why the Energy Crunch Needs Tough Love • Spin-Offs Come Back to Papa TABLE: Why Spin-Offs Are Returning Home Commentary: Wireless: A Little Government Meddling May Not Hurt Douglas McCormick: A Way with the Ladies? Mexico Gets Muddier for Xerox The World Is in Rupert's Sights Say It Ain't So, Tokyo Joe Long Courtship, Short Honeymoon eToys Goes the Way of the Hula Hoop Et Cetera... Shelf Life CHART: Fleming Stock Price The Other Tax Battleground of 2001: The Internet Dems: Let My Regs Go Online Lists Off-Limits? • Kim's Fall from Grace at Daewoo TABLE: Daewoo: The Prosecutors' Case • Middelhoff: ''We're in the Driver's Seat'' TABLE: Going to Market • Will This Man Drive Volkswagen? TABLE: Volkswagen Leads the Pack • For Bush and Fox, the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? After Israel's Elections Maybe Old and New Media Can Mix CHART: Why Subs Matter Sunbeam's Sole Ray of Hope CHART: A Bleak Picture Commentary: Human Cloning: Not When, but Why Introduction Africa: The High Price of Denial TABLE: The Toll of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa Genes Show a Way to Predict Risky Side Effects Heading Off HIV before It Invades CHART: Rising Resistance One Step Forward, Two Back? Deadweight on the Markets CHART: The Customers Are Tapped Out Bad Loans Rattle Telecom Vendors TABLE: Telecoms Take On Risky Loans Commentary: Memo to BofA's McColl: To Give Back Is Divine • Can Fidelity Spend Its Way Back to Fast Growth? RESUME: Robert L. Reynolds TABLE: Fidelity Is Pumping Up Patients' Rights for All Patients? MAP: What the States Have Done TABLE: The Battle in Washington • Europe's Steelmakers Get Lean and Green CHART: Steel Rolls Down Made in the U.S.--But Owned in Europe? For Portland, Generating Energy Is a Breeze R&D: Industry Leaves Government in the Dust CHART: R&D Spending in the U.S. for 2001 This Silver Lining May Store a Wealth of Data Innovations • Taking the Sting Out of Diabetes TABLE: Risk Factors...and Warning Signs • Crackdown on a Pension Perk TABLE: SERP Swaps: How They Work • Who Pays When a Spouse Hides Income? TABLE: Ignorance Isn't Always Bliss • Move Over, Bohemian Grove TABLE: Other New-Girl Networks • AT&T: A Guide for the Perplexed TABLE: A Bad Switch • A Boston Marriage? CHART: Losing Share but Gaining Interest • A Deere Heart for Ingersoll CHART: In Search of Global Diversity • January: Hot Tips from a Cold Month TABLE: Stovall's Picks for 2001 • Figures of the Week (.pdf) • The Week Ahead • Production Index Components Watch Out for Tax Cut Fever The Real Sting in Cisco's Numbers • A Wine Region Waiting to Ripen (int'l edition) MAP: Georgia • Caracas Is Clearing Its Peddlers...But Will It Take Aim at Pirates? (int'l edition) MAP: Venezuela • Europe Must Fight Its Own Battles (int'l edition) • The Consequences of Japan's Shame Culture (int'l edition) • Pull Over, Porsche (int'l edition) TABLE: Zoom, Zoom TABLE: Sports Scores • A Little Chipmaker with a Big Rival (int'l edition) TABLE: Via's Second Act ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Wen-chi Chen • Megawati's Second Chance (int'l edition) TABLE: Power Politics in Jakarta: A Scorecard • Telecom Italia: Gone Courting (int'l edition) TABLE: Grooming Telecom for Suitors • Commentary: A ''Clean Hands'' Campaign for France? (int'l edition) • Commentary: Japan's Post Offices Should Stop Being Banks (int'l edition) CHART: Japan's Postal Savings System Keeps Growing • Deutsche Borse Grows Rich--and Hungry (int'l edition) CHART: Too Many Bourses? • The EU's Fiscal Moralist (int'l edition) RESUME: Pedro Solbes • For Mexicans, Loans for Microwaves to Mortgages (int'l edition) CHART: Elektra: On an Upswing • International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition) What Europe's Airlines Really Need (int'l edition) Bad Idea: Beijing Justice in Hong Kong (int'l edition)
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