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Offers pieces of advice on travel such as hotels in Dallas, Texas.

Features the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

Focuses on the collapse of the energy company Enron Corp. and how its collapse has affected industries across the nation. How companies now worry about where they will find energy supplies; Way that the insurance industry will be affected; Loss of money within financial firms who lent money to Enron; Assertion that rival companies will benefit from Enron's collapse.

Presents news briefs on the private sector in the U.S. as of November 2001, including a life-time achievement award received by lawyer David Boies from the LD Access Foundation.

Features several people in the business and private sector industry in the United States.

Presents updates related to business executives in the United States as of July 22, 2001, including the participation of Haley Barbour as senior adviser to Milestone Merchant Partners.

Presents news briefs about investments in the United States as of February 11, 2001.

Presents news briefs on business in the United States as of January 14, 2001.

Presents news briefs on several celebrities in New York City as of October 18, 2000. Arrest of Australian author Brett De La Mare for reckless endangerment; Screening of the motion picture `The Yards,' directed by James Gray, starring James Caan; Reading of Latin classics by Philippe De Montebello, director of Metropolitan Museum of Art, and actor Fritz Weaver.

Presents business-related news briefs in the United States as of October 15, 2000. Views of Michael H. Jordan, chairman of Luminant Worldwide, on the decline of Web businesses; Information on the showroom of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and Bentley Motor Cars in Madison Avenue, New York City; Details on the seminars organized by the National Flea Market Association.

Profiles Jeffrey C. Hines, president of Hines Interests LP in Houston, Texas. Overview of the real estate business; Financial skills; Family information.

Presents updates on several people in the private sector in the United States as of October 8, 2000. Decision of Pavan Nigam, a software engineer who has worked with billionaire Jim Clark, to resign from WebMD; Views of hedge fund manager Thomas Brown on Richard Barrett, financial institutions investment banking chief at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Presents news update on the private sector of the United States as of September 24, 2000. Acquisition of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse First Boston; Alain Ducasse's entrance in the New York restaurant business; Supporters of the foreign debt relief.

Covers information on the private business sector in New York as of August 20, 2000. Details on the online micro-lender created by Neil Merlino, founder of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, geared for women; Remarks from Neil Matthews, chief operating officer of Gumbusters North America, regarding the business; Details on the animal health center run by entrepreneur Sara Muirhead, veterinarian Marcie Fallek and Jodi Richard, wife of an entrepreneur.

Provides news briefs related to business as of July 23, 2000. Details on how market analyst James Stack risked his life to save a drowning man; Career change of George Stephanopoulos from being a chemical engineering professor to chief technology officer at Mitsubishi Chemical in Japan; Name change of Switzerland-based McWellness to Get Wellness.

Focuses on a discussion, led by Ken Auletta, the `New Yorker' magazine writer, regarding the merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Incorporated. Why the proponents from Disney are opposed to the merger; Comments from Candace Carpenter, founder of iVillage, a Web site for women; Response of Time Warner to the panelists.

Focuses on the business approach of Priceline.com. Target customers of the company; Information on the pricing scheme of the company; Parties that are involved in bidding and buying; Comments from Jay S. Walker, founder and major shareholder of the company. INSET: Grocery-Service Novice Finds Bargains, but No Bananas..

Focuses on the oil industry in New York and how the state environmental authorities are requiring that the industry spend thousands of dollars per well to plug oil holes that have been abandoned for decades; Contamination of tap water in homes; Status of New York State's oil and gas industry.

Describes the business tactics of Ross Perot, Jr., in Dallas, Texas. Advice from his father about business; How Ross Perot, Jr., became the leading real estate developer in Texas; Perot, Jr.'s, use of government as a patron for his projects; New basketball arena Perot is building in Dallas.

Presents news briefs related to business and some executives in the United States as of December 1999. Accusation made by financial adviser Dana Giacchetto against a business partner, Jeffrey A. Sachs; Amount paid by longtime friends Lord Rothschild and Henry Kravis for a percentage of a gardening Web site, Crocus.co.uk; Details on the search of Steven Roth for a director of development for his Vornado Realty Trust.

Covers news briefs concerning the United States as of November 1999. Formalization of the naming of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Highfill for Alice Walton, the only daughter of the late Sam Walton; Tips to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist based on the careers of Jeff McNelly and Doug Marlette; Details on the annual dinner of the Committee to Protect Journalists at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.

Presents updates on business executives in the United States as of November 21, 1999. Winning bid for an auction of a bowling date with Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of eBay; Financial support given by Lee Bass, chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, and his wife, Ramona, to the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas; Views of Brewster Kahle, chief executive officer of Alexa Internet, on business communications.

Features Michael W. Lynch, chairman of McCook Metals in the United States. Bid of his investment company, Michigan Avenue Partners for Reynolds Metals; Attitude in life; Family background; Career in metal trade.

Presents information on executives of private business enterprises in the United States as of August 1999. Late arrival of Mera and Donald Rubell in their party held in New York City, New York for their hotel business; Retirement of Charles I. Clough Jr. as chief investment analyst at Merrill Lynch; Resignation of Jamie Tarses as president of American Broadcasting Corp.

Features the Camel brand at an art-and-fashion installation organized by the Creative Time arts group. Information on a Camel logo; Promotion of cigarettes; Comments from Carol Crosslin, a Reynolds spokesman.

Presents news briefs on business enterprises in the United States as of March 1999. Online retail sales of General Electric Co.; Opening of Aisle 3 retail stores.

Reports on the move of Thomas S. Reid to put thousand-year-old red wood trees in the Headwaters forest of northern California into computer simulation. Importance in protecting the forest; Amount paid by the United States Federal Government to acquire the Headwaters forest; Information on the firm Thomas Reid Associates.

Presents brief business news in the United States. Success of a research report on Berkshire Hathaway company written by Alice Schroeder; Sale of the shares of Perot Systems Corp.

Looks at Zilkha Energy's use of computers to explore for oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. Analysis of seismic data; Improved success rate of new oil and gas wells; Price paid by Sonat Energy to acquire the company; Details of the company's management; Map of leases along the United States' Gulf Coast.

Focuses on hearings being held by the National Transportation Safety Board to discover what went wrong after the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. Incidence of accidents after the merger; Corporate denials that the merger compromised safety; Comments from Jolene M. Molitoris, chief of the Federal Railroad Administration.

Reports on the attempts to assign blame for the February 1998 failure of the sale of United Artists. Withdrawal of a purchase offer by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst; Amount of their offer and reasons for the withdrawal; Statements from others involved including United Artists' controlling investor, Merrill Lynch & Co.

Looks at Ross Perot's return to his business, Perot Systems Inc., as of February 1998. Abandoned political plans; View of friends that he needs the challenge; Comparison of Perot's company to the armed forces; Setbacks to the company; Management changes; Overview of the company's development; Perot's insistence on his values as company policy, including mandatory drug testing, reconsideration of same-sex partner health benefits, and a prescribed script for answering the telephone.

Reports that Computer Associates International Inc., a maker of business software, has made an uninvited bid to acquire Computer Sciences Corporation, a provider of technology services. How the move would accelerate the consolidation of an industry in which size is equated with survival; Possibility that a sale price for the company could surpass that of the Compaq-Digital deal; Reasons behind the move and others in the industry.

Takes a look at how holidays are being emphasized less and less as of 1998. How nonunionized workers have to work on certain holidays; Comments.

Focuses on the demand for bus seats across the United States-Mexico border, and Greyhound Lines' interest in obtaining a share of the business. Numbers of people who work in the United States and live in Mexico; Ostensible opening of the border to bus traffic by the North American Free Trade Agreement; Success of small Mexican carriers; Greyhound's efforts to enter the market.

Focuses on the transformation of Texas' sources of wealth from petroleum to semiconductors and software. Example of how computers and electronics are remaking the US economy as of 1997; Texas' economic performance compared to the rest of the US in 1997; Predominance of white males among the Texas financial success stories; Important role of Austin and its technology companies.

Focuses on the impact of genetically engineered crops in the United States agriculture market. Developers and market share of genetically altered soybeans, corn, and cotton; Risks of speeding new technologies to the agriculture market; Impact of the Monsanto Company's genetically engineered cotton on farmers in the Mississippi Delta. INSET: Field of genes..

Focuses on how hospitals in the United States are trying to distinguish themselves from their competitors, and attract patients. Examples of hospital advertising in Connecticut, Texas, and Washington; Why many general hospitals are not choosing to become more specialized.

Reports that Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. agreed on August 13, 1997 to acquire the Lin Television Corporation. Amount paid by Hicks, Muse; The acquisition as the largest by the firm, and its first major venture into television; Share price being paid by Hicks, Muse.

Focuses on Enron Corporation's announcement on July 24, 1998 of a $2.2 billion cash purchase of the British water and sewage company, Wessex Water PLC as a base for global expansion. Views of analysts on the proposed acquisition; Performance of the Wessex's shares in trading after the announcement; Amount of money Enron will assume in Wessex debt; Comments from Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's chairman; Details on the acquisition.

Presents information on the incident in which five people, including two Border Patrol agents were killed in the lower Rio Grande Valley in San Benito, Texas on July 7, 1998. Circumstances surrounding the incident; Names of persons killed; Comments from Doris M. Meissner, the head of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Reports on the arguments proposed by Union Pacific Railroad company, in an effort to protect itself from the demand for tougher regulation by the Entergy Corporation, as reported on July 6, 1998. Reduction of congestion and expansion of capacity; Details on the computer system used by Union Pacific; When complaints by critics of Union Pacific must be filed with the United States Surface Transportation Board; Reference to the bill introduced by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

Reports on how Texas Governor George W. Bush and the United States House Speaker Newt Gingrich were treated during the annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac) on July 1, 1998 in Dallas, Texas. Differences in the way in which Governor Bush and Gingrich were treated; Gingrich's policies toward Hispanics cited by Belen B. Robles, Lulac's president; Details on speeches made by Gingrich and Governor Bush.

Focuses on computer store CompUSA, with reference to its computer sales methods. Reference to the acquisition of Computer City by CompUSA; Use of radio and television advertisements of CompUSA; Competition facing CompUSA from direct marketers including Dell Computer; Comments from James F. Halpin, chief executive of CompUSA; Decline in the first-quarter profits of CompUSA; Sale of computers by CompUSA over the Internet.

Reports that on June 26, 1998 Governor George W. Bush of Texas commuted the death sentence of murderer, Henry Lee Lucas to life in prison, rather than have him executed for a killing that he might not have committed. Factors cited by Bush for his decision to commute the death sentence; Crimes that Lucas confessed to; Remarks by Lucus from death row.

Focuses on the announcement of Texas Instruments Incorporated on June 18, 1998 of the company's plans to eliminate 3,500 jobs. Percentage of the work force which will be eliminate; Reason for the dismissals; Business operations of the company; Details on Texas Instruments' agreement to sell its computer memory chip business to Micron Technology Incorporated; Value of the transaction; Comments from William A. Aylesworth, chief financial officer at Texas Instruments.

Reports that for two days in June, 1998 the United States Surface Transportation Board will hear testimony on plans by Norfolk Southern Corporation and CSX Corporation, two railroads, to acquire Conrail, the only freight carrier serving the Northeast. Expected approval of the takeover; Reference to the problems which affected Union Pacific's acquisition of Southern Pacific railroad; Attachment of tougher regulations to Conrail's deal.

Presents information on the agreement made by Hearst-Argyle Television company on May 25, 1998 to acquire Pulitzer Publishing Corporation's television and radio stations. Value of the agreement; Conditions of the agreement; Locations of the stations; Background information on the Hearst-Argyle; Comments from Bob Marbut, chairman and co-chief executive of Hearst-Argyle.

Compares Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Corporation to John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil made him famous, as the United States Justice Department filed broad antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft in May 1998. Amount of Microsoft's shares owned by Gates; Impact of the antitrust actions on Gates' net worth; Comparison of the homes of Gates and Rockefeller; Background information on both men; Career history of the men.