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Can We Be Too Clean?

Can we be too clean?  Apparently so. Rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have far healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs.  The New York Times concludes that clean living may make us sick, based on the study published Friday in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. More…

Boomer Boomer Everywhere

You can't open a magazine or surf the net without stummbling onto something about the Baby Boomers and I am sure this is just the beginning. I am on the red caboose of the boomer train - born in 1964 and the final year of the boomer generation. I feel both a part of this generation and different. Many were hippies - I was a yuppie Many were active in the war - I was in between wars TV their big advance - computers mine Independence - the same Abundance and wealth - the same Active - the same I saw reference to this interesting conference on Guy Kawasaki's blog. He is speaking at the Boomer Business Summit. More…