COVER STORY Microsoft's Midlife Crisis Threats abound: Linux. European trustbusters. Key product delays. Can Gates & Co. restore growth? COVER IMAGE: Microsoft CHART: Where's The Growth? GRAPHIC: Trouble Ahead? GRAPHIC: Bill's To-Do List Gates And Ballmer On "Making The Transition" ONLINE EXTRA: How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn SPECIAL REPORT -- EXECUTIVE PAY Executive Pay ONLINE EXTRA: Interactive Executive Compensation Scoreboard ONLINE EXTRA: Executive Compensation Scoreboard (.pdf) UP FRONT Talk Show Times Square Comes To Route 66 Asbestos Clouds Over MetLife Why Is This Man Smiling? Tiny, Topless, And Hot A Perk Package With Air Rights R. Glenn Hubbard: Shaking Up Columbia B-School Russia: Where The Labs Are READERS REPORT A Big Stir Over A Sabbatical Fighting Terror -- Or Spreading Its Seeds? India Has Turned Info Tech Into A McJob How The U.S. Can Combat High Gas Prices This Kind Of Outsourcing Has No Silver Lining CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The New Fat Cats" (News: Analysis & Commentary, Apr. 12, 2004) "A Step In The Right Direction For Iraq" (Economic Viewpoint, April 5, 2004) IN MEMORIAM Irene M. Kunii, 1953-2004 THE GREAT INNOVATORS Charles Merrill: Selling Stocks To The Masses BOOKS Drugs: Is Something Rotten? TECHNOLOGY & YOU Don't Let Word Give Away Your Secrets ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Real Reasons For Your Pain At The Pump BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Oh, What A Difference A Month Can Make Japan: This Time, The Rebound Is For Real NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Where Wealth Lives Can Google Hit It Out Of The Park Again? Commentary: Sun: A Choice That Won't Dispel The Clouds Oh, The Places They'll Go The Gap Has Reason To Dance Again Way Down In The Valley Don't Scalp Us. We'll Scalp You IN BIZ THIS WEEK Lea Fastow: The Fastows In A Fix Static At Nokia Home, Sweet Delaware Voters Nix Wal-Mart UTC's Engine Trouble Et Cetera... Closing Bell: Seagate Technology WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Do The Dems Have A Shot At The Senate? Kerry Pitches A Plan With Fewer Promises ASIAN BUSINESS A Voting Revolution In India? DoCoMo vs. A Mouse That's Roaring Can Korea Be Kingpin Of Online Games? EUROPEAN BUSINESS Job Exports: Europe's Turn Commentary: Daimler's Fumbles Are Firing Up Europe's Shareholders Not A Vintage Era For French Winemakers LATIN AMERICA Brazil's Embraer Hits The Stratosphere INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Iraq: Rising Radicalism And Falling Hopes Finally, Some Zip In Israel's Economy Hong Kong: No Direct Elections Soon PEOPLE The Brains Behind BlackBerry ONLINE EXTRA: RIM's Lazaridis: "We're Not a Startup" MEDIA Commentary: The Press Should Try Taking A Little Of Its Own Medicine Viacom: Too Addicted To Ads? ONLINE EXTRA: Juice For Viacom's Laggard Shares? SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Journey To The Center Of The Mind DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH A Search Engine For Doohickeys Building A Better Germ Killer Second-Hand Smoke: A Quick Study Palmprints And Looming Extinction GOVERNMENT Here Comes Broadband John INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Dude, You're Getting A Printer FINANCE Can This Man Save Putnam? PERSONAL BUSINESS Index Funds Aren't All Equal Recipe For Gains Cholesterol: How Low Should It Be? Diet Alone Might Do The Trick A League Of Your Own -- In A PC FOOTNOTES Bilbao In A Bottle? A Suite For Fido One Tough Tote On Wheels THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Is Goodyear's Stock Full Of Hot Air? INSIDE WALL STREET NPS: Ripe For A Buyout Morgan Stanley Is Going For A Song Whiffs Of A Sweet Deal For Winn-Dixie FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures Of The Week Online Extra: Production Index Components EDITORIALS Why Harvard And Wharton Are Wrong Memo To The Fed: Prices Are Up INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Truly, A World Of Uncertainty Separating The Wheat From The Chaff INTERNATIONAL -- INDUSTRIES Suppliers In A Squeeze INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures Of The Week (.pdf)
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