COVER STORY Cisco: Behind the Hype CEO John Chambers still thinks his company can grow 30% a year. But critics question its aggressive accounting COVER IMAGE: Cisco: Behind the Hype CHART: Cisco's Real Profits Have Turned to Losses... TABLE: How Cisco Tripped Up the Sherlock Holmes of Accounting TABLE: Where Cisco Plans to Grow Cisco Shopped till It Nearly Dropped TABLE: A Costly Acquisition Strategy UP FRONT Talk Show Yes, They Really Pay to See These Sites Here Come the Kiddie Cars DVDs Are Turning into a Solid Gold Hit Splendor in the Suites Rule No. 1 at This New Club: No Dames Post-Traumatic Strip Syndrome READERS REPORT Carly's Last Stand? Fans and Critics Weigh in Mutual Funds: What Happened to Long-Term Investing? Should Charlotte Beers Be Teaching Tolerance? Let's Ban Military Aid to Undemocratic Countries Never Say "Soldiers" When You Mean a Few Good Men Defending the Auditors--and Attacking Them, Too CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The top 25 managers of the year" (Cover Story, Jan. 14, 2002) "Carly's last stand?" (Cover Story, Dec. 24, 2001) "It could be tech time again" ("Where to invest," Cover Story, Dec. 31, 2001) BOOKS A Titan of Industry--and a Bigot TECHNOLOGY & YOU iPod: The Designers Got This One Right ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Don't Bank on Democracy in Afghanistan ECONOMIC TRENDS Boomers: A Hard Act to Follow More Baskets to Put Eggs in Wiggle Room for Euro Bosses INDUSTRY INSIDER Q&A: Can This Man Save American Steelmakers? BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: One More Rate Cut--Maybe. But Then What? Germany: Banking on a Recovery after Midyear NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Enron: The Morticians Move in COMMENTARY: How Governance Rules Failed at Enron Hot Potato: Playing Politics with Enron The Economy: Half-Speed Ahead! Commentary: A Lengthy Honeymoon at Lucent? EchoStar: Why You Don't Mess with the Mouse Will Investors Pay for Schwab's Advice? Commentary: AOL's Sputtering Online Growth Engine Bristol-Myers Squibb Is Feeling Woozy IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Susan Lyne: Adjusting the Picture at ABC The High Cost of Merrill's Cuts Red Ink Flows at Alcoa Homestore.com: Wolff Heads Home In Desktop PCs, IBM Clicks on "Quit" More VCs Hang Up Their Cleats Et Cetera... Gateway Crash WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Bush vs. Daschle: Who's Blowing Smoke on the Tax Cut? A Jab at Jeb INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS A Wrong Turn in Argentina? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: "We've Finally Bitten the Bullet" ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: "On the Edge of a Total Breakdown" COMMENTARY: Another Emerging Market in Too Much of a Hurry Blair's Stealth Strategy on the Euro Commentary: Earth to Airbus: What's the Flight Plan? INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Should Europe Spend Big to Modernize Its Military? Warning to Jakarta? Italy's Euro-Skeptics THE CORPORATION 3M: A Lab for Growth? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with 3M's James McNerney ONLINE EXTRA: 3M's Growth Spurt in Health Care MARKETING Commentary: Booze Ads: There Go the Creative Juices FINANCE The Perils of J.P. Morgan BofA: Whipping a Behemoth into Shape September 11: The Sorrow and the Purse Strings RESUME: Robert J. Hurst INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Bill Gates in Your Living Room Commentary: Come On, Steve--Think beyond the Mac SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: Just Another Hollywood Mad Scientist DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Nano Peapods That Pack a Punch A Cuisinart for Recycling Plastics Turning a Bionic Eye on Retinitis Battery Power: Where the Latte Meets the Lithium BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Sometimes, the Best Game Plan Is the Easiest Hedge Funds Go Wide A Dollars-and-Cents Guide to the Euro BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR -- HERS A Balancing Act for Gen X Women THE BARKER PORTFOLIO AOL: Still a Fantasy Stock INSIDE WALL STREET EMC in IBM's Sights? Cerus May Get in Baxter's Blood Upping the Pressure at Northwest FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS The Return of Politics As Usual One Accounting Code for All INTERNATIONAL -- TO OUR READERS A Tale of Two Currencies INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Carly's Last Stand? Fans and Critics Weigh in How to Audit the Auditors Hold the Ratings Agencies to a Higher Standard What France Can Teach Japan about Work-Sharing INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS China's Chip Binge Chinese Consumers Get Their Day in Court Holding Off the Wal-Marts of the World INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Here Come the Fun Phones A Sigh of Relief at Marks & Sparks INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Commentary: Europe's Costly Surplus of Central Bankers INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Argentina Blew Its Big Chance
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