Travel can be stressful and tiring, especially the incessant demands of business travel. Long flights, layovers, changing terminals, crowded gates, delayed and canceled takeoffs, or getting stuck in a seat next to an undesirable fellow traveler. Those situations all contribute to frustration and fatigue. How do people who travel professionally cope? One way is with the right music selections, as we learned from the new radio program Road Warriors, which explores the music business travelers listen to on the road to help them successfully pound the pavement. One example featured on Road Warriors is…

"There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule." --- time management 101: learn to make (do homework) and manager (schedule life) is more essential to living than just simply programming and creative.

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President Obama visits GM and Chrysler auto plants in Detroit on Friday to call attention to the successes -- so far -- of the bailed-out companies. A White House report says the industry has added 55,000 jobs, GM will stay open during its usual two-week summer shutdown and Chrysler added another production shift.

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The attorney general's office is investigating whether insurers are profiting off of grieving families by placing funds from life insurance policies into potentially risky accounts that they control. Andrew Cuomo said his office had served subpoenas on Prudential Financial Inc. and MetLife Inc. as part of the probe.

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