COVER STORY Hot Stuff! In BusinessWeek 's Annual Tech Buying Guide, you'll find what you need to know before shopping for a handheld, wireless device, or computer. Plus: How to build a digital home INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Chips on Monster Wafers How the shift to larger wafers and thin circuits will transform the industry COVER IMAGE: Chips -- The Great Leap Forward CHART: Growing Up GRAPHIC: The Payoff in Big Wafers Dawn of the Superchip CHART: Integrated Growth GRAPHIC: Less Is More INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY Hip H&M The Swedish retailer is reinventing the business of affordable fashion COVER IMAGE: How H&M Got Hot CHART: H&M: A Swedish Success Story GRAPHIC: Clash of the Clothing Titans Seeking Next Fall's Fashion in the Subway UP FRONT Talk Show E-Mail: Signed, Sealed, Deleted First Napster...You May Be Next Fewer Puffers, More Puffies Who Needs Ads When You Have E-Mail? Blowing Blue Chips off the Road EDITOR'S MEMO A New Player on Our Tech Team READERS REPORT What the B-School Issue Left Out The View from the Top of Citigroup's Board FASB: Getting the Facts Straight NASA Is No Pie-in-the-Sky Investment You Can Eat Right at McDonald's Not Necessarily the Views of the Management BOOKS Laying the Foundations of a New Germany Winds of Change Tuning Out Ads? TECHNOLOGY & YOU AOL and MSN: New, but Barely Improved ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Don't Let the CEO Run the Board, Too ECONOMIC TRENDS Index Funds and Inefficiency Where Are the E-Bargains? The U.S. Finally Pays the Piper BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Fed May Be Getting an Itchy Trigger Finger India: A Dire Combo: Drought and Political Conflicts NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Reform: Slip Slidin' Away? Q&A: Rewriting the Rule Book at Citi Commentary: Accounting Watchdog--or Lapdog? Here's How You'll Know The New Economy's New Austerity Today's Tech Mantra: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Computing Power Sold Like Electricity Boxed-in on the Car Lot Commentary: GM Foods: Why Fight Labeling? Instead of resisting consumers demands, the food lobby should be educating them on the benefits of genetically modified ingredients Happy Holidays--for E-Tailers, At Least Now Playing at Imax: Hit Movies IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK A.G. Lafley: Turning the Tide Jean Therapy at Wal-Mart Verizon's Strong Signal The SEC: No More Hiding Games Comcast Rides the Broadband Express Asbestos Fallout Reaches Insurers Et Cetera... Threadbare WASHINGTON OUTLOOK A Stalled Economy Is Widening the Gender Gap The September 11 Factor Thumbs Up for Powell Falsely Knocking Fritz Don't Call It Privatization! INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS The EC's Trustbuster on Trial Commentary: Chechnya: Time for the West to Pressure Putin The Russian President's refusal to negotiate with the Chechens came at a high price. It will go higher still How AFLAC Laid a Golden Egg in Japan INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK China: It Looks Like Jiang Will Rule from the Wings Political Crisis in Israel INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Is the Pen Finally Mightier Than the Keyboard? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: Gates: "This Is Big. Don't Doubt Me" ECONOMICS Commentary: A Better Way to Stimulate PEOPLE Is This Bud for You, August IV? DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Waking Up a Sleeping Anticancer Gene One Way to Make Drugs in a Flash This Bird Hatched a Robotic Jet Bomber Innovations ENTERTAINMENT Miramax: Harvey Is on the Line MANAGEMENT CEO Coaches DESIGN Can Stodgy GM Turn Stylish? THE CORPORATION Ford: Luxury Is Job One FINANCE Still Spinning the Numbers Dueling Market Swamis Commentary: Best Buy? Maybe Not for Investors Boffo at BofA THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Charity Begins with a Fiscal Checkup INSIDE WALL STREET Intuit Steams Ahead More Subscribers Tune in to Cox Why Veridian Hasn't Bombed FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Voters in Suspended Animation INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Garten Hit the Nail on the Head--Then Swerved Left An Even-Handed Approach in Turkey Japan's Banking Crisis Hurts Only Japan Those Precocious Nobel Scientists In Mergers, One Plus One Rarely Equals Two INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Calling Bangalore Telecom Streetfighters Dumping Trucks May Be Isuzu's Best Hope INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Commentary: French Publisher for Sale: No Foreigners, Please Siemens Proves Prudence Is a Virtue INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE A Cash-Free France? Don't Bet the Store INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
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