COVER STORY
 Where to Invest in 2002 The New Rules of Risk: A battered economy, a brutal bear market, and an unrelenting battle against terrorism have driven investors to the sidelines. That's probably the wrong place to be now. A diversified portfolio will serve you better in 2002
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 The Bloom Is off Idealab
 CSFB's Not-So-Painful Settlement
 Ford's Wrong Turn on the Internet
 September 11: A Blow to a Weakening Economy
 
READERS REPORT
 Getting Feverish about Drug Prices
 No Snide Cracks about Dot-Coms, Please
 Questia: Revolutionary? Not to a Librarian
 Where Teaching Ranks on the Status Scale
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 "The Super Bowl's Super Ad Drop" (In Business This Week, Dec. 17, 2001)
 
BOOKS
 The Grapes of Wrath, Mexican-Style
 The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 What Steve Sees on Tech's Horizon
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 America Will Lead the World Back to Growth
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 Why High Tech May Rally
 Security As a Trade Barrier
 The Threat of a Huge Debt Load
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: Few Signs of Life through the First Quarter
VIDEO: Almost the End
 Israel: Terrorism Zaps the Economy
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Jobs: A Smarter Squeeze?
 Commentary: United Airlines: A Peace Mission the White House Should Skip
 Walter Hewlett: Behind His Big Switcheroo
 Commentary: Don't Believe the Yahoo! Hoopla
 The Pentagon's Highest-Flying Hawk
ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: A Talk with Bush's Tough Guy
 Commentary: What Vivendi Universal Really Needs Is NBC
 Can Amgen Go Toe-to-Toe with the Big Boys?
 Commentary: A Biotech Boom with a Difference
 Has Washington Mutual Been Buying Trouble?
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Charles Watson: Putting Pep in Dynegy's Step
 Citigroup's Long Adieu to Travelers
 FedEx Delivers--for Now
 There's Life after Merrill
 No Happy New Year for Motorola
 GE Pulls Out the Ax Again
 Et Cetera...
 Short Circuit
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Rebuilding Afghanistan from Scratch
 One Currency--but 15 Economies
 For Cap Gemini, the Wrong Mate at the Wrong Time?
 Commentary: Weakening the Yen Won't Make Japan Strong
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
 Not Getting Any Help from Your Ex?
 
THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
 The Bonehead Barker Report
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 eBay--for Hard Times
 US Oncology: The Prognosis Is Buyout
 Acacia Is All Set to Blossom
 Video: A Gift for Investors
 
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
 Figures of the Week (.pdf)
 
EDITORIALS
 Healing Wounds, Learning Lessons
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM FRANCE
 Something Is Rotten in Roquefort
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 Getting Feverish Over Drug Prices
 Subsidies Aren't the Answer to Poverty
 Shattering Confidence in Consultants
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L BUSINESS
 Commentary: One Currency--but 15 Economies
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
 International Figures of the Week (.pdf)

ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
December 24, 2001
Commentary: Why a Few Enrons Would Do Europe Good
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