2002

  (April)

   

one • It's your civic duty to be in movies • UK hospitals brace for accidents • George Soros is better than you • Yankees to get even richer • Mennonite church helps poor artists
two • More ways to veg out in front of the TV • Housing prices: up, and down • France: unstable prices, insecure shoppers • China: influence people with fake Viagra • Aquarium's finances don't hold water
three • Will S. African brewer guzzle down Miller? • Cape Town: a more-profitable port of call • More security and stuff gone missing • Paris: Le Monde prints articles in English
four • The logic behind marketing to kids • Chipped wine glasses summon waiter • What’s new in proxy contests • Do pro forma earnings statements hold up?
five • Financial biz ads: a more buttoned-down approach • Major League Baseball going broke? • Europe: restricting access to U.S. tech • Seniors head north for prescriptions • Taller men make more scratch
eight • Sony enters the land of pirated music • Your Webcast host falls asleep on the job • Use ME to buy that Britney CD! • Allan Sloan on corporate tax evasion • Japan: School's out for summer...no jobs
nine • Texas cowboys pretty-up former East Germany • On campus: "Divest Now!" from Israel • Blair: special deal for U.S. steel imports? • Dr. Marc Ringel: life as a doc-in-training • Usual suspects interested in Kirch media
ten • Japan: readying for World Cup hooligans • Employee ownership in France? • Artists escape Ground Zero in New Mexico • Betting the spread in the UK • Charge rent now, pay later
eleven • Italian gigolos get organized • Hollywood: impact of Kirch bankruptcy • April 15th and your health • Jordan Goodman: taxes by credit card • Euros love trash
twelve • NYC's same-sex marriage expo • China's answer to Davos • Slightly thinner wallets for CEOs • Smokin' em out: forensic accountants • Suing over Spidey
fifteen • A date with Tax Court • It's earnings season! Woo hoo! • Japanese go around Asia for jobs • Searching for signs of economic recovery • Maxine Shapiro: Happy B-day, Ken Lay! • Allan Sloan on corporate legends
sixteen • Equal Pay Day for women! • EU warns Afghanistan • China: Wedding expenses go up • Graham Ingham: the Fed and interest rates • New Japanese music stars
seventeen • Dracula-land coming to Budapest? • P3P: protecting your online privacy • States cut back at colleges • Elvis-style furniture • Making sure food doesn't go to waste
eighteen • Japan: plastic tries to overtake cash • Greenspan: dot-com tech glut gone? • SAG voting: drama befitting Hollywood • Jordan Goodman: Third World art catalogs and Web sites • National immunization in crisis
nineteen • NFL draft and the salary cap • Why more and more sports are on cable • Lots o' plastic surgery in Japan • Docs: No more drug company-sponsored golf • Risky business in the insurance industry
twenty-two • In Japan, world's fastest computer • ATA bucking airline woes • Risk and biz • Cracking down on int'l trade of rare animals • Philip Kaplan and F&*#edCompany.com
twenty-three • File for bankruptcy, keep your mansion? • What's in a corporate name? • Caveat venditor • High tech in Jerusalem • CEO salaries smaller, but not minimum wage
twenty-four • A good assistant's still hard to find • Late '90s: the poor got richer too • New J&J CEO faces big challenges • N. Korea: first-ever overseas software seminar
twenty-five • Yucca Mountain: Nuclear opponents not giving up • China: hidden hazardous waste • Inlander: HMOs make most people happy • Goodman: no hotel -- house swapping • Authors Guild loses perspective on Amazon
twenty-six • Hershey workers strike over health • Michigan hosts econ. "boot camps" • BIG MAC index: U.S. dollar could fall • More money for us = less money for the government • Cash Peters pier-dances
twenty-nine • Japan: parents paying big for good schools • Falling behind on credit card payments • UK: Criminal kids? No welfare benefit • Sloan/Shapiro on Wall Street's scandals • L.A. riots 10 years later
thirty • Great cheese comes from unhappy cows? • China: economic times are a' changin' • No more one-fixed-rate loans for students? • France: Protests against Le Pen reveal hypocrisy • Concern as Britons go to the polls

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