TIME'S TOP 100

TIME(2007) 5/14

Every year TIME presents its TOP 100 PEOPLE. This year follows the same format. Many of the descriptions are written by others who may have been chosen in the past. Most appear to be centrists or left of center OR apolitical. To tell you all the names could get boring, because the real story is there and is in the pictures. It does start out with Barak Obama on page 57 and ends on 172 with Richard Branson. Further, humorist JOEL STEIN got another list together from ordinary writers and they decided on the fellow from PIMP MY RIDE, DONALD TRUMP, and an UTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMP, as well as a spray tanner. So ...there you go. TIME.COM has the complete list and you won't be surprised.

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 5/14 /

55) BUSINESS WEEK has a list out this week too. It is the top 25 INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. Again, some of the names are very familiar. They include APPLE, GOOGLE, TOYOTA, MICROSOFT,  WALT DISNEY, STARBUCKS, TARGET,  AMAZON, and

E-BAY.

WOYKE  66-67) Our modest champion of  capitalism, Warren Buffet is buying stocks of

Walmart.

KIRSCHNER 73) Camps and unconferences are a buzz in business. If you want to learn about something you go to an area where someone is discussing something new. If you get bored or do not find it helpful, you get up and walk out. That sounds like academic conventions where papers are given and folks come and go.The lucky ones have few people and no one asks an embarrassing question.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2007) 5/14

SCHULTE (37) How much does it cost in jobs and profits to save the environment and the earth?

A Tennessee wind farm may be better for the environment than a Kansas coal power plant, but which is better for the economy? The answer is the coal plant. That is why not a lot of

legislation has come forward to save the earth. Additionally, there are numerous think tanks that pump out papers about how there really isn't a problem .Further, other countries will probably not do much. So the money is on COAL. If the smart money is right, can you take the

junk out of coal and the heat which is sent up into the air? Can you do it for cheap? If you can really get clean coal and cool coal for cheap then you got a winner. Remember, the population bomb? Well, it did happen but Lester Brown was able to invent a cheap corn to delay the problem. Further, more mouths also need more heat. So, the money is on coal. Further lots of people need water. Water wars drive up the price. If desalination plants can make water cheap and we can cheaply save rain water and recycle water that would help too. So what if we go on because we can't afford to screw up profits now for something that will happen or may happen or could happen?

Without lots of ramifications, humans adapt. Many people or lots of people die. We re-orient our lives and move on. That is as best we can do or rather it is what is most likely to happen.

60-61) If you want to see health care changes, that cover most or all people look to the states.

THE WEEK (2007) 5/18

10) Jane Fonda has changed to match zeitgeist of a decade, she moved from sex goddess to communist to capitalist and now to being a born again Christian. However, she sees Jesus as a major radical where everyone loves each other and acts morally. Evangelicals have not warmed up to a radical Jesus, but a redemptive one and classic capitalism is the way to go. So maybe Jane is

in for another change. Stay turned.

13) The new prime minister of France is likened to Reagan and Thatcher. However, both countries especially the USA is far to the Right of France. Perhaps, his biggest change will be placing Black Muslims in prison and cut wages and increasing profits for corporations.

35) The dollar is sliding downward in value. Why aren't the biggies rushing to save it? If you are a big multi-national, you outsource work to a sweatshop in a 3rd world. You make a mouse trap for cheap. Then you send it back to the states and pay little tariff, sell it to Americans for more and make big profits. The dollar keeps dropping and you make more money unless there is a total crisis and a big depression. People quit buying mousetraps and you take a loss. Right now the dollar is gong to get lower and so American made products when exported are more competitive. So that helps our debt, and delays the crisis..