COVER STORY How to Fix America's Schools COVER IMAGE: How to Fix America's Schools TABLE: Seven Ideas That Work CHART: Why Teach? TABLE: America's Poor Report Card TABLE: Shortchanging the Poor INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY Robots They're beginning to walk, talk, and, yes, think like people. Is the age of the robo sapien just around the corner? BUSINESS WEEK E.BIZ
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UP FRONT Talk Show A Raider Cries Poverty Power, Prestige--but No Palm Casual Dress: Dot-Com Casualty? 18 Wheels, 18 at the Wheel Make a Few Calls, Then Toss the Phone A Star Eatery Has Lost Its Spice Footnotes READERS REPORT Talking Back to the Oracle There's Nothing to Fear in Single-Stock Futures Hedge Funds May Hamper Growth Why Should Congress Care about U.S. Jobs? Social Security: Make Big Earners Pay the Full Freight Stanching the Flow of Bankruptcies Lessons from California's Crisis A Dispatch from the Service Economy CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "How to Survive Fed Shock" (BusinessWeek Investor, Mar. 5, 2001) "India 3.0" (International Business, Feb. 26, 2001) BOOKS Did IBM Really Cozy Up to Hitler? TECHNOLOGY & YOU It's Getting Cheaper to Find Your Way ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Real Reason We Need a Tax Cut ECONOMIC TRENDS How Economic Pain Will Spread A Money-Supply Dividend? More Trade, More Nations INDUSTRY MONITOR Garbage In, Valuable Garbage Out Keep on Truckin'--without Jackknifing An Earplug That Lets the Good Sounds In Innovations BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Up Ahead for the Economy: A Chilly Spring Israel: Bad Combo: Global Slowdown, Local Violence NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY The Main Street Prez? When Is a Tax Cut Not a Tax Cut? Commentary: Wake Up, Wall Street: The Fed Isn't All about You Commentary: The Lords of Tech: What Were They Thinking? Why the Supply Chain Broke Down Commentary: Amazon + Wal-Mart = Win/Win Doesn't Anyone Want to Run a Dot-Com? Airline Congestion at the Bargaining Table, Too Real Estate: Room at the Top, Bottom, and Middle IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Timothy Koogle: Do You Yahoo? Not Anymore Bedtime for Napster? A Glimmer in California's Gloom Xerox Gets an Infusion from Fuji Jamie Kellner: Tops at Turner How Down, Dow Jones Et Cetera... Broadsided WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Will the Democrats Kill Campaign-Finance Reform? Bush Budget Woes Prescribing a Benefit INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Dark before Dawn in Japan? Asian Markets: Golden Moment or Sucker's Rally? Europe's Shareholders: To the Barricades Commentary: How Mad Cows Threaten European Unity INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK In Rural China, Baby Steps toward Democracy Hyundai Electronics' Crunch ECONOMICS Commentary: Consumer Confidence Is No Crystal Ball GOVERNMENT The West Wing's Warrior Princess THE CORPORATION Repairing the Coke Machine FINANCE Who Will Hold the Cards? Muni Bonds Are in Bloom Commentary: Is Citi Bleeding Its Weakest Borrowers? Commentary: Why Chapter 11 Needs Rewriting INDUSTRY INSIDER Q&A: Keeping Microbes off the Menu INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT Power Chips Get a Jolt SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: We Don't Need More Weapons, Just Smarter Ones INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Q&A: A Talk with Meg Whitman BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE Heavyweights behind the Great Wines BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Futures Are Now Rule 1: Take Charge of Your Money THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Today's IPOs Are Priced to Move INSIDE WALL STREET Apple and EarthLink NCO Group Is All Set to Collect Is Ikon in Canon's Sights? FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS U.S. Schools: Finding Some Answers High-Tech CEOs: Stop the Finger-Pointing INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM VIRGINIA The Perils of Prison Labor INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ITALY As Mad Cow Panic Hits Eateries...Italians Are Sampling Kangaroo INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT A Spirited Riposte from a Thai CEO Invest the Surplus in New Water Mains and Power Lines INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Getting Back to Business in Manila ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with the Philippine Finance Minister ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Former President Fidel Ramos Commentary: "The Only Way He'll Leave Office Is in a Box" INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Europe's Shareholders: To the Barricades Now Renault Is Driving Upmarket The End of Russia's Independent TV? RESUME: Mikhail Y. Lesin INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA In Argentina, a Surgeon without a Scalpel And Cardoso Thought the Hard Part Was Over INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Asian Markets: Golden Moment or Sucker's Rally? Galaxy vs. Alien Invaders It's Sink or Swim for Germany's State Banks INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Mad Cow's Silver Lining Is Farm Reform
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