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A Call to Nonlethal Arms For the Conflict in Iraq

The Pentagon has been developing alternative antipersonnel weapons that seem tailor-made for the kind of urban warfare it now faces. Fallujah shows why such technologies should move forward.


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Retail Outlook
Will weakness in housing and rising energy prices mean consumers are running out of gas? We talk with a retail analyst and a consumer expert about the outlook for the holiday season

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Hot Growth 100
From young, upstart companies to those that have been around for centuries: Plus, regional rankings of top-performing small businesses in Asia and Europe:
Asia's Hot Growth 100
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Info Tech 100
Emerging-market cellular players, wireless phone and gear makers, and Web giants are this year's stars

World's Most Innovative Companies
Nurturing, creative cultures allow these companies to wow customers with innovative products and services

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Cell Phones: Color Them Blooming
Despite Nokia's warning that its sales won't meet expectations, S&P's Ari Bensinger says must-have color screens and camera phones turned the usually slow first quarter into a pleasant surprise for the industry as a whole.
Winnebago Just Keeps Cruising Along
Soaring gas prices might have some thinking twice about buying that new SUV. But it hasn't slowed the king of the RVs, which is getting a big boost from demographic trends in America.


Has Obesity Finally Met Its Match?
The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Synthelabo is getting positive results so far with a drug that suppresses appetite. And it may have cardiac benefits, too.

The Great Innovators: MANIAC's Father
The first of a weekly online-only extension of this series marking BusinessWeek's 75th anniversary looks at John von Neumann, inventor of the computer that helped the U.S. win the Cold War.


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