COVER STORY Staying on Top William Weldon has taken over Johnson & Johnson, one of the best-run companies around. Can he keep up the growth? COVER IMAGE: Staying on Top? GRAPHIC: It's Not Really about Baby Powder RESUME: William C. Weldon TABLE: What Synergy Could Look Like at J&J The Race to Keep Arteries Clear--and Rivals at Bay TABLE: How Cypher Works UP FRONT Talk Show Double-Dealing in the Card Game GE: Keeping Fliers in the Dark? A Fortysomething Eyes Seventeen Teamsters for the Defense Spell-Cheque Nation Can Peugeot Overtake VW? READERS REPORT Stumbling Blocks on the Path to College Make Taiwan a Full Partner in the SARS Battle Bob LaPenta, a Pillar at L-3 Keeping the Airlines Aloft Diet and Kids' Behavior: Sorry, There's No Connection CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS ``Can Mike Z. work more magic at Motorola?'' (Information Technology, Apr. 14, 2003) BOOKS Is China Bound to Explode? The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List TECHNOLOGY & YOU Thinking Outside the Laptop Box ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Have No Fear: Bush's Tax Plan Won't Jack Up Interest Rates INDUSTRY INSIDER Weathering the Tech Storm BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Profits: All That Body-Building Is Starting to Pay Off The European Union: High Hurdles for New EU Members to Clear NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Why the Tech Turnaround Looks Real Buoyant or Bubbly? Profits: More Pain, but More Gain Commentary: What Was Don Carty Thinking? The Dividend Tax Cut: Prepare for a Paler Version Iraq Deals: Who Got What--and Why Ford Tames the Rebate Monster Commentary: The Big Board Risks Losing the Big Trades IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Fred Hassan: Schering's Relief Man? Greenspan Rides Again Congress Goes After HealthSouth Closing In on Quattrone It's No Go for Merck's IPO U.S. Steel Forges Ahead Et Cetera... Off the Hook WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Can Bush Cement His Inroads among Jewish Voters? California, Here I Come George vs. George Baghdad on the Bayou? INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Standing Guard against SARS Commentary: SARS: An Amazing About-Face in Beijing This Balancing Act May Get Trickier INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Iraqi Oil: Why the U.N. Could Get Shut Out German Bank Deal SOCIAL ISSUES The Senate's Gift to Charity SPORTS BUSINESS The Biggest Crapshoot in Sports $10 Million a Year to Play Golf? No Thanks INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Why Rivals Want Nextel's Number Online Ads Take Off--Again SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Biology and Bill Gates FINANCE The New Merrill Lynch A Tortuous Road for Investors MANAGEMENT Commentary: With Earnings Guidance, Silence Is Golden MARKETING Commentary: The Sun Is Setting on "Truckish" Sport-Utes INDUSTRIES The Flexible Factory How Briggs Is Revving the Engines BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Owning a Piece of Your Childhood Put New Muscle in Your Portfolio Lean and Mean Machines Cookware to Bring Out Your Inner Chef DIVIDENDS The Stat Boogie Alert Dell Gets Greener Ask BW Investor: What's the Freight? THE BARKER PORTFOLIO AT&T Wireless: A Bad Call by the Board INSIDE WALL STREET A Tinseltown Marvel All Primed to Gush at Tenaris Mellon Looks Ripe for Recovery FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Getting Real About Taxes Game-Playing at the U.N. The Tech Rebound: Hope and Caution INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Seeing the War from Many Angles A High-Tech World Is a Safer World INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Toyota Is Way Ahead of the Hybrid Pack Reality Check for India's Software Industry INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Labor Clenches Its Fist Europe's unions are fighting to prevent the dismantling of the welfare state And You Thought the Web Ad Market Was Dead From Russian Oligarch to Oil Kingpin How one tycoon created YukosSibneft, the world's No. 4 oil producer INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Offshore Funds Are on the Ropes War, high oil prices, and SARS clobbered funds. Only 30 of 500 surveyed showed positive returns in the first quarter of 2003 Reliable Returns in a Freewheeling Market Online Extra: Biotech as "a Defensive Sector" Online Extra: "No Place for a Buy-and-Hold Strategy" Online Extra: Offshore Funds Interactive Scoreboard Online Extra: S&P-Rated Global Funds Screening Tool Search all the European and international funds rated by S&P and read the research to uncover investments that suit your aims INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Labor Leaders: Listen to Labor
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