COVER STORY Exxon Unleashed How the world's most powerful corporation plans to dominate the new age of oil exploration COVER IMAGE: Exxon Unleashed CHART: By Strictly Controlling Costs...Exxon Positioned Itself for a Bonanza in 2000... TABLE: King of the World TABLE: The Supermajors ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Exxon Mobil's Lee Raymond When Big Oil Gets Too Slick COMMENTARY: Big Energy's Rise Is Everyone Else's Loss CHART: Energy Profits Soar COMMENTARY: This Clean Oil Project Is Tainted Already UP FRONT News Flash Take Five, Elsie A New Word for "I Dunno" Carpenters: A Splinter Group? Cheaper by the Minute "Room Service, Send Up a Techie" A Frog in the Throat of Development Footnotes READERS REPORT Lots of People Raised Their Hands The Bully in the Next Cubicle Of Managers and the "Blue-Collar Caste" CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The artificial sweetener in CEO pay" (Management, Mar. 26, 2001) "Reading, writing--and winning" (Sports Business, Apr. 2, 2001) BOOKS The Real Father of the Reagan Revolution China Hand Asia Optimist TECHNOLOGY & YOU Handhelds That Are Less of a Handful ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Why Colleges Shouldn't Dump the SAT ECONOMIC TRENDS Can Housing Stay Solid? Cut Death Taxes, Live a Bit Longer A Recession by Any Other Name BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Is Stock Market Psychology Turning Around? France: Consumer Spending Softens the Slowdown NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Too Much of Everything Commentary: Tech Investors: Get Ready for "Armageddon" Commentary: Surprise! Slowdown + Overcapacity = Inflation Why George Bush Is Torn about Tax Cuts Looking for the Bottom of the Slippery Tech Slope Is the World Finally Ready for Tablet PCs? IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Ravi Suria: Spoils of War with Amazon Casing Chicago for Fed Talent J&J Banks on ALZA to Deliver It's a Smaller World at Disney Lucent Needs More Than This IPO Comair: Grounded by Turbulence Et Cetera... Sweaty Palm INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Japanese Auto Makers: Machete Time Downturn? What Downturn? Investment Banking: Gray Days for Deals in Europe INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Korea: The Road to Detente Gets Steeper Merkel's Last Chance? Moscow Shakeup MARKETING Kmart's Bright Idea THE CORPORATION Mattel: Up the Hill Minus Jill DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Introduction Keep Cancer at Bay with Vitamin A Secrets of a Tumor-Loving Protein One More Reason to Eat Your Veggies Tailoring Drug Regimens to Fit Your Genes SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Global Warming Has Bush on the Hot Seat GOVERNMENT Commentary: The White House: Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? Low Voltage at the Energy Dept. ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham FINANCE There's Hardly Anywhere to Hide Commentary: Money Market Funds Enter the Danger Zone Think Your Secrets Are Safe? MEDIA Take Me Online to the Ball Game SOCIAL ISSUES Commentary: The Border Is More Porous Than You Think INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MP3.com Faces the Music BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR While the Death Tax Is on Death Watch Passing On Your IRA Estates Bring Out the IRS's A-Team When You Need a Little Estate Planning Therapy For the Unwed, a Map through a Mine Field Charity with Strings Attached MITTS: Stock Plays for Chickens THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Taming Your Trading Taxes INSIDE WALL STREET Is Weill After AmEx? What May Pump Up Stone Energy Service Corp. Comes Back to Life FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS America Needs That Tax Cut--Right Now How OPEC's Price Hikes Sap Growth INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM BELGRADE Struggling to Survive in Yugoslavia INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC A Ghoulish "Tourist Attraction"...Won't Rescue This Sinking Economy INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Venezuela's Stock Market Gets a Failing Grade Global Reach? eBay Isn't There Yet The Fed Should Be Worried about Investors Balancing Supply and Demand INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Downturn? What Downturn? Alibaba's Magic Carpet Is Losing Altitude Coming at You, Merck INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Feast of the Telecom Titans COMMENTARY: How British Telecom Blew It Back to the Future at Valeo INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA Cavallo Hits the Ground Galloping The Tango Effect Trips Up Brazil INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Investment Banking: Gray Days for Deals in Europe This Banker Breaks Rules INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Ripping Off the Shareholders The Bank of Japan: Clutching at Straws?
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