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Table of Contents:VOL. 163, NO. 1 - February 07, 2011
Cover story
The 100 Best Companies to Work For
These highly rated companies hope to hire more than 150,000 people in 2011. By Milton Moskowitz, Robert Levering, and Christopher Tkaczyk 
Features
BP: 'An accident waiting to happen'
A Fortune investigation into BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster reveals a saga of hubris and ambition. By Peter Elkind and David Whitford with Doris Burke 
Cows? The trade gap? Kazakhstan?
With an airlift of heifers from North Dakota, this Central Asian country seeks new life for its beef cattle industry. By Sheridan Prasso 
The king of home equity fraud
How a con artist manipulated lenders to siphon millions out of the accounts of homeowners. By Luke O'brien 
100 Best Companies to Work For: Undercover employee
A day on the job at three Best Companies. By David A. Kaplan 
First
By the numbers
Is the Southwest all dried up? By Anne VanderMey  
Closer look
USAA, a military-focused financial services company, is growing. By Anne VanderMey 
World's Most Admired Companies
How Nike dominates. By Scott Cendrowski 
The briefing
The best (or worst?) perks of 2010, and more. 
The chartist
Fortune's top networker. By Jessica Shambora 
Brainstorm Green
A new American energy plan. By Frederick W. Smith, CEO, FedEx 
Tech
The way we work
The invisible promotion. By Vickie Elmer 
Second act
Pamela Mitchell, founder and CEO of the Reinvention Institute. By Daniel Roberts 
Career
Tech star
Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, has a new bold idea: make accepting a credit card as easy as sending a tweet. By Michal Lev-Ram 
Tech
Investor Q&A
Richard Gao of the Matthews China Fund is betting on the consumer. By Katie Benner 
Wealth adviser
Transfer great wealth to your heirs tax-free -- while you're still alive. By Paul Sullivan 
Analyst face-off
Netflix's stock has tripled in a year. Will it go higher? Interviews by Scott Medintz 
Invest
The government's rescue of GMAC has left its old shareholders with a multibillion-dollar windfall.
By Allan Sloan 
The commodities crunch is corporate America's dirty little secret.
By Becky Quick 
History doesn't have to miserably repeat itself. This year, there's much to look forward to.
By Michael Elliott 
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