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Investing
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			This Week
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			June 11 Table of Contents 
			
			
			COVER STORY
			 Hot Growth Companies**
			Innovative small-cap companies are turning creativity into profits and 
beating the pants off Corporate America, says Darnell Little in 
BusinessWeek's 100 Hot Growth Companies  Special Report. Plus: Only Some of 
the Hot Stay Hot. Louis Lavelle revisits the 1999 companies to see how  
they're doing.
			
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			 ASIAN COVER STORY
			 Taiwan & China**
			How can Taipei control its destiny as the two economies  integrate?
			
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			 SPECIAL REPORT
			 The Stars of Europe**
			In finance, politics, technology, and marketing, BusinessWeek identifies 50 
key players in a defining moment for Europe.
			
			The complete Table of Contents for this week's issue can be found at
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			BONUS: THE BW 50
			The 50 best companies in the S?500. Plus: In-depth info on all 500, extra 
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			DAILY BRIEFING 
			
			5/30 -- WASHINGTON WATCH
			 Reforming Social Security Just Got a Lot Harder 
			Now that President Bush has his $1.35 trillion tax cut, how does he fund the 
switch to privatized retirement accounts? 
			
			5/30 -- STREET WISE
			 It's Too Early to Forget About Rambus 
			The innovative memory-chip maker just lost a key court battle.  Still, its 
potential for strong future growth remains intact 
			
			5/29 -- INSIDE WALL STREET ONLINE
			 An Early Bet on a Chipmaking Turnaround 
			Some pros see Taiwan Semiconductor's depressed shares as a good play now, 
even though the sector still faces tough days ahead 
			
			5/29 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 Who'll Run America's Nuke Plants? 
			Just as President Bush is trying to boost this energy source,  the industry 
faces a critical shortage of qualified personnel 
			
			5/25 -- POWER LUNCH
			 The Glittering Prizes on Disney's Shopping List 
			He may have a hard time deciding, but there are probably too many tempting 
targets for Michael Eisner to restrain his acquisitive instincts 
			
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			INVESTING 
			
			5/29 -- ECONOMIC INSIGHT ? From S?
			 A Jolt from the Jobs Report? 
			It's a short -- but potentially explosive -- week ahead for U.S. markets.  
The capper: Friday's release of the May employment report 
			
			5/29 -- TECHNICAL MARKET INSIGHT ? From S?
			 A Crucial Test 
			The major averages pulled back to or near their respective breakout points -- 
and that's a bullish sign 
			
			5/29 -- INVESTING Q?
			 "Technology, Industry, Cyclicals..." 
			Those are the sectors that Robert Natale, Bear Stearns' S?STARS Portfolio  
Manager, is looking at these days 
			
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			GLOBAL BUSINESS 
			
			5/30 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 A Slick Move in Russia's Oil Patch? 
			Giant TNK is out to grab a controlling stake in one of Siberia's biggest 
producers. BP Amoco could get in the way, though 
			
			5/30 --EYE ON JAPAN 
			 A Bank That's Living Up to Its Name 
			Shinsei, Japanese for rebirth, may prove the test case as to whether  the 
country's banks can come back to life 
			
			5/29 -- AFFAIRS OF STATE
			 No Foreign Policy Issue Is Too Small to Botch 
			Team Bush is showing an uncanny knack for angering U.S. allies,  even over a 
fairly simple takeover of an American company 
			
			
			
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			TECHNOLOGY 
			
			5/30 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 Computing's Next Wave: The Light Fantastic? 
			Researchers are experimenting with superfast data searches that rely on 
refractions of colored light instead of digital code  
			
			5/30 -- COMPANY CLOSEUP
			 Star-Spotting Goes Wireless 
			Startup Upoc thinks it can turn cell-phone services like its New York 
Celebrity Sightings into a real business 
			
			5/24 -- MOVERS & SHAKERS
			 Two Teen Tech Titans Make the Grade 
			Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman developed their Pinpoint search engine in high 
school. Verizon and Terra Lycos rate it an A+ tool for the wireless Web 
			
			Plus, you'll find daily coverage of the rapidly changing world of e-business 
at http://www.ebiz.businessweek.comBW e.biz offers exclusive analysis, 
commentary, and Web-site reviews every day. Visit often!
			
			
			
			
			
			Breakthrough: Corporate Leadership Summit
			Presented by BusinessWeek and Jim Taylor, Ph.D., in partnership with IBM  
Corporation
			Sponsored by Audi of America, Inc.
			June 27-29, 2001, San Diego, California 
			
			
			
			
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			The Chopra Center for Well Being 
			Gretchen Hayes 
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			President, AIG Global eBusiness Risk Solutions
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			Acting CEO Avantrust
			Dr. Ronald A. Heifetz
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			Codirector, The Center for Public Leadership
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			John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
			Jeffrey Katz
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			Chairman, President, and CEO
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			Orbitz 
			Sandy Kemper
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			Founder and CEO
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			eScout 
			Susanne D. Lyons
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			Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
			Michael Mandel
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			Economics Editor
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			BusinessWeek
			Michel Mayer
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			General Manager
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			IBM Pervasive Computing
			Jonathan Nelson
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			Founder and Chairman
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			Organic, Inc. 
			Christopher Palmeri
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			Senior Correspondent, Los Angeles
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			BusinessWeek
			Margaret Popper
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			"Street Wise" Columnist
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			BusinessWeek Online
			Will Rodgers
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			Guy S. Tallent
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			Jim Taylor, Ph.D.
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			Celera Genomics
			Stephen G. Vetter
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			SMALL BUSINESS ONLINE 
			
			5/30 -- WORK & FAMILY
			 Take a Break -- Please! 
			Employees who forego vacation time are cheating themselves and their families 
-- and they're not doing the boss any favors, either 
			
			5/29 -- MARKETING
			 Are You Serving Spam? 
			Small-business owners, especially, need to make sure their e-mail marketing 
isn't leaving a bad taste 
			
			5/29 -- SMART ANSWERS
			 When Good Workers Go Bad 
			The smart entrepreneur guards against the scams that tempt unscrupulous 
employees, from petty theft to soliciting off-the-books jobs 
			
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			B-SCHOOLS 
			
			MBA JOURNALS
			 Internship Recruiting 
			In this new series, first-year students discuss the ins and outs of 
navigating the internship interviewing process 
			
			ROI CALCULATOR
			 Return on Investment Calculator 
			No doubt, you could do lots of things with 100 grand and two years of your 
life besides investing it all in B-school -- and some of them might pay 
better. Or they might not. How could you know? This tool  lets you find out 
what an MBA is really worth compared with other  investments 
			
			PART-TIME MBA COMPARATOR
			 Dig Into the Data 
			This tool lets you create your own side-by-side comparisons from a database 
of more than 200 programs worldwide 
			
			CAREER MOVES
			 Who's Hiring 
			An MBA is a healthy boost to any career, but if you have your heart set on 
working at a particular company, you want to make sure that it'll be 
recruiting on campus when you graduate. This tool lets you do just that  by 
enabling you to pick a company and find out which schools it hires  MBAs from 
			
			FACTS & FIGS
			Who's Hiring 
			Create your own comparison tables using our newly redesigned  interactive 
database packed with statistics on MBA programs worldwide 
			
			BusinessWeek Online is now selling excerpts from its Best  Business School's 
Guide in eBook format!  Offering a wealth of information and a candid picture 
of the Top 10 programs in  the U.S., these reviews include extended profiles, 
and related links to  BusinessWeek Online B-school coverage. The entire eBook 
edition of BusinessWeek?s  ?Guide To The Best Business Schools? will be 
available online soon, with the print  version available in bookstores in 
August.
			
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			CAREERS 
			
			5/30 -- DIVERSITY
			 "They Go With John Jones, Caucasian Male" 
			Harvard Business School Professor David Thomas talks about race, corporate 
culture, and the obstacles minority managers still face 
			
			5/24 -- EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
			 Pink-Slip Phobia Hasn't Set in Yet 
			Despite mass layoffs, most employees aren't concerned about being fired -- 
but neither are they enamored of their jobs 
			
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			Have a question about your career or workplace issues?  E-mail us at: 
askcareers@businessweek.com
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