COVER STORY Planet Starbucks To keep up the growth, it must go global quickly COVER IMAGE: Planet Starbucks CHART: Starbucks Keeps Grinding Out Profits... CHART: ...But to Keep Up the Sales Pace... RESUME: Howard Schultz For Coffee Growers, Not Even a Whiff of Profits ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Starbucks' Howard Schultz SPECIAL REPORT Crisis at Citi As the stock slips, loans sour, scandals surface, and conflicts proliferate, Sandy Weill's legacy as architect of the universal bank is on the line UP FRONT Talk Show The (Fat) Wages of Scandal The Cadillac of Cadillacs? Excess Inventory? eBay to the Rescue For Cable Companies, a Tighter Noose Less Work, More Shopping? READERS REPORT Andersen: Who Is to Blame? United Airlines' Management Bears Responsibility, Too Higher Productivity, Unhappy Workers Making Sure the Buck Stops at Just the Right Place Russia's Young Tycoons Use Unsavory Tactics Did Xerox Mislead Its Shareholders? Driving Jeep Customers to Other Brands Bechtel: Setting the Record Straight on Bolivia Getting People to Brush Is Half the Battle CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Options are useful--but only if they're used right" (Economic Viewpoint, Aug. 5, 2002) "The Best Global Brands" (Special Report, Aug. 5, 2002) "Health-insurance scams that will make you sick" (News: Analysis & Commentary, Aug. 26, 2002) BOOKS Japan: A Patient Predator? The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List TECHNOLOGY & YOU High Schools Are Flunking Tech ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Case of the Disappearing Dividend ECONOMIC TRENDS Has the Fed Saved the Day? College Grads: Not So Scarce The EU May Soon Put On Weight BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Why This Recovery Isn't Raising Spirits Germany: Stuck in the Slow Lane While growth is tepid, spending to clean up and rebuild from the floods may be a welcome boost NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Back-to-School Season Gets an `F' Kmart con Salsa: Will It Be Enough? This Economic Boost Begins at Home Commentary: Farm Subsidies: A Blight on the Economy Huge government support of agribusiness is bad for the rest of the U.S. economy and free-trade expansion Gateway: Picking Fights It Just Might Lose Commentary: How Hershey Made a Big Chocolate Mess Why Boeing May Welcome a Walkout Governance: Look Who's Still at the Trough Even after Enron, corporate boards are still up to their old games, doling out bonuses, loans, free BMWs -- sometimes to themselves IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Carly Fiorina: Carly's Caveat For Sale: Enron's Assets A Super System for Nasdaq? Big Steel's Latest Big Setback A New Option for Cendant HealthSouth Is in a Lot of Pain Et Cetera... WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Business' Big Worry: The GOP Will Cave on Pension Reform A Bear Market for O'Neill Shootout in Maryland Intrigue on the Bayou SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PCs and Speech: A Rocky Marriage DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Homemade Drinking Water, for a Pittance Can Frozen Atoms Predict Eruptions? Generating Power with the World's Tallest Tower Innovations THE CORPORATION Saks Fights Off the Ravages of Age MANAGEMENT Commentary: How to Halt the Options Express SOCIAL ISSUES The Changing Heartland After Jesse, the New Moderates GOVERNMENT Taxing Multinationals: The Donnybrook Ahead MEDIA Murdoch and DirecTV: Ready for a Rematch? INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Can Yahoo Make 'em Pay? ENVIRONMENT Commentary: Gas-Guzzlers Are Safer? Pure Bunk INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Powerfrauen Take ControlWomen now reign supreme in some of Germany's most prominent boardrooms Vive L'Air France SkyEurope: A Slovak Air Attack A Saudi-U.S. Divorce? Open Season for Chinese Banks ENTERTAINMENT Mano a Mano in Hispanic TVFINANCE Commentary: Memo to PNC: Show Rohr the Door Commentary: IPOs: Getting the Price Right WORKING LIFE Commentary: Workers, Beware of Brave New Health Plans BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR For Americans, Foreign Stocks Spell Relief Europe: First Battered, Now Bargains Investors are favoring the stocks of European insurers and financial firms, as well as small outfits with simple accounting Asian Consumers Are Spending Latin America: The Highest Stakes in Town Q&A: The World Looks a Lot Brighter The Smokies, Crisp and Colorful A BMW with a Long Seduction Curve THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Why Insiders Like Agilent INSIDE WALL STREET A Buyer for Bristol? Genesee & Wyoming: All Aboard Frisco Bay Is Making Waves FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Flawed Financial Giants INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Household Wealth Isn't What It Used to Be Accounting for Telecom Stock Losses Don't Discount U.S. Health-Care Spending Amazon: Pro Forma Numbers Are a Help, Not a Hindrance China Makes Progress against Counterfeiting Microsoft: What's in a Name? INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS A Proud Papa Called Acer For Nissan, a Game of Who'll Blink First Stirring Up Singapore Inc. INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Foreign Banks Will Give China a Boost The Misguided U.S.-Saudi Rhetoric
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