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We should stop praising the world’s top CEOs because a new study by a business journal shows that they are not as good as everyone thinks they are–they’re LUCKY!

In the June 25th edition of the Financial Times, Lucy Kellaway writes: "Take Bill Gates. Had he not come from a well-off family–making it easy for him to indulge his young love affair with computers–and had his well-connected mother not opened doors with IBM, he probably wouldn’t have become the richest man in the world. That doesn’t mean that Mr. Gates isn’t clever, it just means that we can study him all we like but we’re not going to end up where he is."
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Iphones make many of us nervous, but new iphone apps can save you from both big and small problems. One of these apps warns you about high levels of solar activity, which fluctuates over an 11-year cycle, It’s likely to peak over the next year, which could send radioactive particles from strong solar storms, via cosmic rays, down to the Earth (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). This could cause major problems for the 1,000 satellites now flying in space, but will probably only effect your cell phone use, unless the radiation is so strong that we need to take cover.read more

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When it comes to bad weather, heat waves kill more people than tornadoes, blizzards or hurricanes, which doesn’t bode well for global warming. For instance, during 3 excruciating weeks in August of 2003, an epic heat wave broiled parts of Europe and killed an estimated 70,000 people. It was so hot electrical cables melted, nuclear reactors could not be cooled, water pumps failed, and museum specimens liquefied.
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Last night on Coast to Coast with George Knapp, we got into the global warming issue during the last 15 minutes. Listening to one caller ranting on with a distorted litany of misinformation and disinformation that he actually believes, I got hot under the collar. This is really rare for me anytime, and very rare on the radio. It takes a real moron to inspire that kind of reaction, but that was what I was dealing with. The fact that I was dripping with sweat in the middle of an unprecedented heat wave for our area, with hundreds of fires destroying homes and lives across the whole western US and the Midwest farming community in terrible trouble from drought did not help at all.
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