COVER STORY 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 Hedge Funds 101 CHART: Hedge Funds Have It Intrepid Capital Management PHOTO: Intrepid Capital Management's Shapiro and Au TABLE: Intrepid Capital Management 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 INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY India 3.0 Bangalore wants to move beyond simple code. Good idea--or self-delusion? UP FRONT Talk Show And It Comes with Formaldehyde How Tinmen Smelt a Quick Profit May the Best Tan Win Trying to Hustle Up a Few Slots No Dream: California Skies Are Bluer Wash Away Your Sins on the Web Footnotes READERS REPORT 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 CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Taunting McCain?" (Capital Wrapup, Feb. 12, 2001) "Frankensmokes? Not in Dixie" (Up Front, Feb. 19, 2001) BOOKS When the Valley Discovered Politics Take It Easy Make It Easy TECHNOLOGY & YOU Call Me Back on My Handheld ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Boy, We Really Need a Tax Cut ECONOMIC TRENDS Fixing the Dents in Savings Data No Way Out of the Nurse Shortage Are VC Startups Run Better? BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Adjusting to Slower Growth Needn't Be Traumatic Australia: Rate Cuts to the Rescue NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Tax Cuts: The Coming Battle COMMENTARY: A Better Way to Use All That Dough Whose 100 Days Are They, Anyway? And Now, a Luxury Hyundai Nice Job on the Genome. Now, Let's See Some Profits Commentary: Now, Napster Can Get Down to Business It's Getting Quieter in the Advice Business Commentary: Caution: Single-Stock Futures Ahead IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK 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 WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Tougher Bankruptcy Laws--Compliments of MBNA? Bush vs. Labor? ANWR Oil: Support Sinks INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Mitsubishi and Chrysler: Riding Together Commentary: Get Out of the Way of Bank Mergers INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Can Bush Break the Stalemate with Iraq? Election Fever in Poland CORPORATE SCOREBOARD Profits: It's Not a Very Pretty Picture A Spotlight on 2000 Profits (.pdf) The Wild Card: Consumer Confidence SCOREBOARD: Fourth Quarter and Full Year Corporate Scoreboard (.pdf) MARKETING Consumers in the Mist WORKPLACE Commentary: Low-Skilled Jobs: Do They Have to Move? LEGAL AFFAIRS Labor Laws Apply to Dot-Coms? Really? INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Q&A: The Oracle Speaks Can Mike Volpi Make Cisco Sizzle Again? SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Reinventing the Power Grid DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH This Plumber's Helper Could Get a Promotion Cells That Fight MS? Of Mice and Men...And Fat Innovations SPORTS BUSINESS Nike: Great Balls Afire. Will Golf Clubs Be Next? BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE For Big-League Dreamers, Big-League Camps Click Here for Your Fantasy (Getaway) My Friend the Dolphin One Word for a Cool Vacation: Mush! My Castle Is Your Castle Two Tastes of Provence An Ashram with a View BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Figuring the Cost of a Free Trip THE BARKER PORTFOLIO A Yardstick for AOL Time Warner INSIDE WALL STREET Uniting with Unisys? Why Nautica Is Zipping Right Up Recovery May Be in Maxygen's Genes FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Tax Cuts: Let the Negotiations Begin Two Opposing Scenarios for the Economy INTERNATIONAL -- EDITOR'S MEMO Scanning the Globe for Art INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM NEW MEXICO Santa Fe's High-Tech Chaparral INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON BRAZIL Recife's Waterfront Is Going Digital...And Its Favela Is Staying Put INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Thailand's New President: The People's Choice The Invisible Hand Needs a Leg Up INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS REITs Are Learning to Speak Japanese INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Europe's Flag Airlines: Going Nowhere Siemens: Too Big to Avoid Getting Hurt? An Italian Underdog Develops a Bite INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS Brazil's Thriving Gray Market for the Greenback Commentary: Mexico: The Olive Branch Could Bear Fruit for Fox INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Citibank Conquers Asia The Thrill Is Gone for European IPOs INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS One Vote for the Bank of Japan Hey, EU, Lay Off the Irish
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