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• Hedge Funds Are Hot Again And they're no longer just for the superwealthy. But should you jump in? COVER IMAGE: Hedge Funds Are Hot Again CHART: Hedge Funds Have It Hedge Funds 101 Intrepid Capital Management TABLE: Intrepid Capital Management PHOTO: Intrepid Capital Management's Shapiro and Au Viking Global Investors TABLE: Viking Global Investors SAC Healthco TABLE: SAC Healthco You're Entering a Regulator-Free Zone Commentary: The Wrong Way to Regulate Hedge Funds PHOTO: State Street's Persaud • India 3.0 Bangalore wants to move beyond simple code. Good idea -- or self-delusion? ASIAN COVER IMAGE: India 3.0 TABLE: Software Ambitions TABLE: India's Tech Sector Is a Jewel... TABLE: ...But Must Add Value to Shine On... CHART: ...And Meet Investors' Demands PHOTO: Wipro's Vivek Paul Talk Show And It Comes with Formaldehyde How Tinmen Smelt a Quick Profit May the Best Tan Win TABLE: A Merger of Equals? Trying to Hustle Up a Few Slots No Dream: California Skies Are Bluer Wash Away Your Sins on the Web CHART: Value That Dollar! Footnotes • Making the Tax Cut Efficient and Fair • The Dot-Calm before the Layoff Storm? • From FASB, an Extra Bonus • Can Anyone Fix the Litigation Machine? • Soy Protein Is a Healthy Food, Too • California's Energy Users Deserve More Credit • Education Reform: Take the Chance • ''Taunting McCain?'' (Capital Wrapup, Feb. 12, 2001) • ''Frankensmokes? Not in Dixie'' (Up Front, Feb. 19, 2001) • When the Valley Discovered Politics PHOTO: Cover, ''How to Hack a Party Line'' • Take It Easy PHOTO: Cover, ''The Future of Success'' • Make It Easy PHOTO: Cover, ''The Unfinished Revolution'' • Call Me Back on My Handheld PHOTO: Kyocera Smartphone • Boy, We Really Need a Tax Cut • Fixing the Dents in Savings Data CHART: Wages Keep Up with Spending • No Way Out of the Nurse Shortage CHART: Hospital Wages Accelerate • Are VC Startups Run Better? • U.S.: Adjusting to Slower Growth Needn't Be Traumatic CHART: January Store Sales Bounce Back CHART: Inventory Building Cools Off Sharply CHART: Productivity Falls to Earth • Australia: Rate Cuts to the Rescue CHART: Joblessness Is on the Rise Tax Cuts: The Coming Battle CHART: Tax Cuts: How Much Difference? TABLE: The Democratic Alternative Commentary: A Better Way to Use All That Dough CHART: How Far Can $1.6 Trillion Go? Whose 100 Days Are They, Anyway? TABLE: Dueling Agendas And Now, a Luxury Hyundai CHART: In the Fast Lane Nice Job on the Genome. Now, Let's See Some Profits TABLE: Evolution of the Gene Sleuths Commentary: Now, Napster Can Get Down to Business CHART: Building Steam It's Getting Quieter in the Advice Business CHART: Consulting Starts to Slow • Commentary: Caution: Single-Stock Futures Ahead Richard Belluzzo: Sweeter the Second Time Around? Patent Pounding at Amazon A Four-Wheel Retirement Plan $10 Million: Par for the Course Citi Heads for the Burbs A New Chef at Williams-Sonoma Et Cetera... Cold Snap CHART: ConAgra Stock Price Tougher Bankruptcy Laws--Compliments of MBNA? Bush vs. Labor? ANWR Oil: Support Sinks • Mitsubishi and Chrysler: Riding Together TABLE: Moving in Common Commentary: Get Out of the Way of Bank Mergers Can Bush Break the Stalemate with Iraq? Election Fever in Poland • Profits: It's Not a Very Pretty Picture TABLE: The Leaders in 2000 Sales and Profits A Spotlight on 2000 Profits (.pdf) The Wild Card: Consumer Confidence CHART: Consumers Grow Nervous SCOREBOARD: Fourth Quarter and Full Year Corporate Scoreboard (.pdf) Consumers in the Mist TABLE: Home Is Where the Research Is Commentary: Low-Skilled Jobs: Do They Have to Move? TABLE: Alternative Path • Labor Laws Apply to Dot-Coms? Really? TABLE: Disappointment Litigation Is on the Rise • Q&A: The Oracle Speaks Can Mike Volpi Make Cisco Sizzle Again? TABLE: Volpi's Game Plan CHART: Cisco's Slowing Revenue Growth CHART: Cisco's Stock Slide Reinventing the Power Grid TABLE: Electricity for Tomorrow TABLE: Players in Distributed Power GRAPHIC: How It Works This Plumber's Helper Could Get a Promotion Cells That Fight MS? Of Mice and Men...And Fat Innovations Nike: Great Balls Afire. Will Golf Clubs Be Next? • For Big-League Dreamers, Big-League Camps TABLE: Sports Spectaculars • Click Here for Your Fantasy (Getaway) • My Friend the Dolphin TABLE: SeaWorld Trainer for a Day • One Word for a Cool Vacation: Mush! MAP: Canada TABLE: Doggin' It • My Castle Is Your Castle TABLE: Where to Find an Irish Castle • Two Tastes of Provence MAP: France TABLE: Feasting at Lourmarin • An Ashram with a View TABLE: Enlightening Getaways • Figuring the Cost of a Free Trip TABLE: Up, Up, and Away • A Yardstick for AOL Time Warner CHART: Levin's 'Monetization Machine'? • Uniting with Unisys? CHART: A Tech Survivor • Why Nautica Is Zipping Right Up CHART: Uncommon Flair • Recovery May Be in Maxygen's Genes CHART: A Highflier That Crashed Figures of the Week (.pdf) • The Week Ahead Production Index Components Tax Cuts: Let the Negotiations Begin Two Opposing Scenarios for the Economy Scanning the Globe for Art (int'l edition) • Santa Fe's High-Tech Chaparral (int'l edition) MAP: New Mexico • Recife's Waterfront Is Going Digital...And Its Favela Is Staying Put (int'l edition) MAP: Brazil • Thailand's New President: The People's Choice (int'l edition) • The Invisible Hand Needs a Leg Up (int'l edition) • REITs Are Learning to Speak Japanese (int'l edition) TABLE: The Ins and Outs of REITs... • Europe's Flag Airlines: Going Nowhere (int'l edition) TABLE: A Glut of Airlines • Siemens: Too Big to Avoid Getting Hurt? (int'l edition) TABLE: Red Flags • An Italian Underdog Develops a Bite (int'l edition) TABLE: Tiscali Takes On the Telcos • Brazil's Thriving Gray Market for the Greenback (int'l edition) TABLE: Who Uses the Paralelo ? • Commentary: Mexico: The Olive Branch Could Bear Fruit for Fox (int'l edition) • Citibank Conquers Asia (int'l edition) CHART: Citibank Sells Safety in Asia • The Thrill Is Gone for European IPOs (int'l edition) TABLE: Alive and Kicking • International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition) One Vote for the Bank of Japan (int'l edition) Hey, EU, Lay Off the Irish (int'l edition)
February 19, 2001 Letter From Georgia: A Wine Region Waiting to Ripen
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