COVER STORY 8 Lessons from the Telecom Mess Deregulation simply isn't working. Here's a plan to get the $700 billion industry back on track COVER IMAGE: Lessons from the Telecom Mess INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Asia's Worst Deal Wall Street peddled nearly $6 billion in bonds for Asia Pulp & Paper before the Singapore company defaulted. A cautionary tale of greed, blind optimism, and the East-West divide. INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY The Great English Divide In Europe, speaking the lingua franca separates the haves from the have-nots BUSINESS WEEK SMALLBIZ
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UP FRONT News Flash California's Most Wanted Honchos When Loyalty Erodes, So Do Profits Big Ex-Techies on Campus Numerical Superiority Palm Ware for Cheap As the Downturn Turns READERS REPORT Pleasantly Surprised by ADM's Alan Andreas Give Chris Galvin His Due at Motorola NAFTA Puts a Dent in the U.S. Auto Industry Mexican Trucks Should Follow the Rules of the U.S. Road Without Factory Workers, Who Will Be the Consumers? Try This One on for Size Still Shipping with FedEx Thanks for Giving Women the Financial Savvy They Need You Can't Put a Price on Human Capital Laying Off Workers Won't Get the Economy Moving CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Driving and dialing" (Up Front, July 23, 2001) BOOKS Air Taxis: More Than a Flight of Fancy Cold Capitalism Hot Air TECHNOLOGY & YOU The Wireless Web Isn't So Wimpy Now ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT China: Under the Glare of the Olympic Torch ECONOMIC TRENDS An Upbeat View of Productivity Why Options Are Repriced How Canada Keeps Warm BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Second Half Should Be Healthier Mexico: Clinging to Frayed U.S. Coattails NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY AOL vs. Microsoft Surprise! Bob Lutz Is Headed for GM A Mighty Short Christmas List This Year Commentary: Disclosure, or Data Glut? Have Banks Been "Giving Tequila to a Drunk"? Are the Baby Bells Playing Dirty? Commentary: OPEC Can't Keep Tightening the Spigot IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Bill Ford: A Ford with Better Ideas? GE's Hudson River Blues Priceline Shocker: Black Ink More California Energy Troubles A Smile on the Face of the Tiger The SEC's Report Angers Congress Et Cetera... Smackdown WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Privatizing Social Security: Despite the Slump, Support Is Solid Privatizing the Military A Big Dis for Dick Tax-Cut Fallout INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Tronchetti's Telecom Italia Coup Searching for Gold in the New World INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Northern Ireland: The Clock Is Ticking for Blair Fixing Russian Schools Air France's Big Payout GOVERNMENT The Workingman's President? THE CORPORATION Biotech and the Spoils of Success SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Rust Belts? Try Tech Belts INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IBM Serves Up Some Surprises LEGAL AFFAIRS Sorry, Bill, He's No Softie RESUME: Charles A. James ONLINE EXTRA: A Chat with the Justice Dept.'s Charles James FINANCE Why Earnings Are Too Rosy Good Times for Bad Paper Ameritrade Might Just Claw Its Way Back A Deep Freeze for Options DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Flat Panels at a Flat Low Price Interferon: Good News at Last Save a Sea Urchin, Restore a Reef? A Discerning Eye to Help You Judge the Traffic CORPORATE SCOREBOARD Be Glad the Quarter Is Over A Sinking Feeling across the Globe Interactive Second Quarter 2001 Corporate Scoreboard SCOREBOARD: Second Quarter 2001 Corporate Scoreboard (.pdf) BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE For Kids on the Web, It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World Camp Next Year? Start Now VIDEO: Camp Scouting When Kids Stress Out BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Your Broker Blew It. What to Do THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Titles Worth Your Summer Time INSIDE WALL STREET An Online Crapshoot Viad's Payment Arm Could Pay Off Big AirNet May Deliver Quite a Packet FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Trust the Strong Dollar Don't Roll Back Fair Disclosure INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Hong Kong Means Business One Less Database to Maintain A Simple Way to Stop AIDS What Made Lilly Wilt So Badly To Live and Die in Belgium Look Out for Unauthorized Credit-Card Charges INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Asia's Answer to the Slump: Spend Commentary: South Korea: The Wrong Way to Build a Free Press INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS A French Retailer Trips Up Global Heavyweights Commentary: Germany: Breaking the Iron Grip of Labor Law INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Euro Not Spoken Here Bean-Counting American-Style INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Getting Asia Back on Track
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