COVER STORY The Benefits Trap Old-line companies have pledged a trillion dollars to retirees. Now they're struggling to compete with new rivals, and many can't pay the bill. COVER IMAGE: The Benefits Trap GRAPHIC: What's Wrong With Retirement CHART: Adding Up The Costs GRAPHIC: Pension Woes GRAPHIC: Draining The PBGC The New Retirement GRAPHIC: Kathi Cooper Caught Short GRAPHIC: James Roberts Last Of A Breed GRAPHIC: Richard De Los Santos ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with the PBGC's Bradley Belt ONLINE EXTRA: Comparing Pensions Around the World INTERNATIONAL COVER STORY Can Football Be Saved? The sport is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? COVER IMAGE: Can Football Be Saved? GRAPHIC: Way Out Of Bounds GRAPHIC: The Stats GRAPHIC: Europe's Most Valuable Football Franchises ONLINE EXTRA: Olympique Lyonnais: Scoring Off the Field ONLINE EXTRA: Football's Finances Need a Kick UP FRONT Talk Show How Ken Lay's Charity Could Pay Off Taking The Cialis Challenge Insurers Give Boards A Break Look Out, Elmo Europe's Government Fire Sale Brad Seligman: Taking On Retailing's Behemoth A Big Easy Gabfest With Meg Online Extra: An Extended Interview With Meg Whitman Microsoft: The Mouse That Glowed READERS REPORT Voting: It's The Numbers, Not The Locale, That Count CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The Vanishing Mass Market," (Cover Story, July 12, 2004) "Oil's Rise Will Lift Suncor" (Inside Wall Street, June 28, 2004) "The Lobbyists' Tax Bill" (Editorials, June 28, 2004) THE GREAT INNOVATORS James Watson and Francis Crick: Cracking The Code Of Life TECHNOLOGY & YOU Why It's Hard Making Text Easy To Read BOOKS In Greenspan's Shadow BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Don't Be Spooked By Sorry-Looking Stats India: Inflation Will Take A Toll On Growth NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Corporate Coffers Are Stuffed With Dough Commentary: Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Success Now It's Showtime For John Kerry Is A Housing Bubble About To Burst? ONLINE EXTRA: A Coast-to-Coast Look at Housing Lenders Switch On Their Back-Up Systems There Goes The Rainbow Nut Crunch Commentary: Why Apple Needs To Shine Up iMac IN BIZ THIS WEEK Harry Stonecipher: In Your Face, Airbus Revving Up Rebates Burger King's Crown Passes Peoplesoft: Softer Sales A Subscriber Roll Call Et Cetera... Closing Bell: eBay WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Piracy Wars: Hollywood Turns Its Guns On Tech The Law Of The Sea Faces Choppy Waters What's In A Name? Utah Dems See Hope ASIAN BUSINESS Grinding The Rust Off China's Northeast 3G: Hutch May Have The Last Laugh Commentary: Why Koizumi Is On Thin Ice EUROPEAN BUSINESS France's Poweo: Aiming To Spark A Revolution Yukos: The Moment Of Reckoning INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Egypt Starts Planning For Life After Mubarak Young Blood At Siemens Russia's Nervous Bank Depositors THE CORPORATION Big Brown's New Bag ONLINE EXTRA: UPS's Eskew on "the Next Logical Step" MEDIA Can This Woman Save Savoy ? ONLINE EXTRA: Hermene Hartman's "Motown Model" Wrestling With Trib Co.'s Demons ONLINE EXTRA: FitzSimons on Tribune's Tough Times SOCIAL ISSUES From Plunderer To Protector ONLINE EXTRA: "Stop Destroying The Biosphere" INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Is CNET's New Ad Strategy A Sizzler? ONLINE EXTRA: CNET's CEO: "We Can Be Switzerland" FINANCE Sizing Up BusinessWeek 's Street Watcher Graphic: The Inside Wall Street Scorecard (pdf) Lobbying For Laissez-Faire Fresh Seed In The Valley PEOPLE New York's Other Real Estate Mogul DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Smart Sportswear Takes The Field Fill 'Er Up -- With Straw And Yeast A Protein That Keeps Mice In Slim City Of Hot Plates And Hearing Aids PERSONAL BUSINESS Ready To Buy A Home Robot? A Chat With Roomba Man FOOTNOTES ETFs Of All Flavors When Your Cell Phone Needs A Jolt Hair Repair THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Domino's IPO: Not As Tasty As It Smells INSIDE WALL STREET A Second Act For Pier 1? Consol May Get Fat In A World Hungry For Coal Why Embraer's Planes Fill The Airline's Bill FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures Of The Week (.pdf) Online Extra: Production Index Components EDITORIALS Sarbanes-Oxley: Time To Step Up So Much Cash, So Much Caution INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Why Athens Will Be Safe For The Games Computers Won't End Corruption In India Why Many Asians Are Investing In Their Mattresses The Back Door Of The U.S. Is Wide Open Sacrificing To Preserve The Wealth Of A Few Americans INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Bubble, Bubble, Housing Trouble In Britain China's Bourses: Stock Markets Or Casinos? Commentary: Why Europe Shouldn't Save For Retirement Yet INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Getting European Football In Shape INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures Of The Week (.pdf)
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