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COVER STORY
Roads to Riches
Why Wall Street is clamoring to buy America's highways, bridges, and airports--and why the public should be nervous

April 27, 2007
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COVER STORY
Roads To Riches
Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports—and why the public should be nervous
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GLOBAL BUSINESS
Testing What's Hot In The Cradle Of Cool
Fashion houses are trying out new products on the teenyboppers of Tokyo
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GLOBAL BUSINESS
Remade In The USA
Sony's comeback may ride on its Yankee know-how
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DAILY BRIEFING

AUTOS
The Toyota Way to No. 1
Toyota's top U.S. executive on how it managed to become the world's No. 1 carmaker and why the company can keep on doing it
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TOP NEWS
David Halberstam's Last Speech
The prize-winning author spoke on journalism and history two days before his death in a California car crash on Apr. 23. Here's what he said
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INNOVATION
Cracking The Catalyst Code
In a new book, Richard Schmalensee and David Evans examine "catalyst" companies that profit by linking two distinct groups
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INVESTING

TECH KNOWLEDGE · From S&P
The Software Trick: Find a Niche
S&P favors Citrix Systems because of its focus on the growing mobile workforce; design vendors such as Autodesk benefit from hot growth in Asia
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TOP NEWS
Suddenly, Hedge Fund Fees Seem High
After the average hedge fund failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 in 2006, big investors like CalPERS are starting to complain about fees
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MARKET SNAPSHOT
Dow Climbs Above 13,000
Strong earnings reports from Amazon.com and Boeing, plus a large gain in durable goods orders lift the major indexes
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GLOBAL BUSINESS

ASIA
China Tops U.S. as Japan Trade Partner
Though old differences remain, Japan is keen to continue its expansion by exporting to booming China, while Beijing wants more Japanese know-how
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DEALS
The Making of a Monolith
ABN AMRO signals the euro zone's superpower status
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TECHNOLOGY

NEWS ANALYSIS
Parting Shots at Apple's Jobs
Former CFO Fred Anderson reached a settlement with the SEC over options backdating—but says the CEO deserves part of the blame
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NEWS ANALYSIS
Vonage: Away from the Edge, for Now
The Web-calling service provider can seek subscribers until its appeal hearing on the patent infringement case brought against it by Verizon
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TECHNOLOGY
Rosum: Taking GPS Indoors
A Silicon Valley startup is blazing new trails for Global Positioning System technology
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SMALL BUSINESS

SUCCESS STORIES
Entrepreneurs Race for the Prize
As Americans embrace running, marathons are becoming more complex—and more profitable. And that's spawning a new breed of startup
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SUCCESS STORIES
Simply Audiobooks Pumps Up the Volume
In 2003, the audiobook rental company launched out of a Toronto basement. Today it's the most successful independent player in the market
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B-SCHOOLS

MBA JOURNAL
Setting Off False Alarms
While waiting for an interview to begin, this MBA accidentally pulled the fire alarm. He didn't get the internship, but he certainly made an impression
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CAREERS

MARSHALL & FRIENDS
My Dinner with Bono
Bono's journey from rock star to humanitarian exemplifies how important shifts in self-definition are to shifts in behavior
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