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...approximately three in 10 Americans that identify themselves as political independents actually fall into five separate categories, according to the results of a poll released earlier this week by a joint team from Harvard, the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post...
Kennedy School Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis Robert J. Blendon led the Harvard research team in conjunction with three representatives from the Kaiser Foundation and two polling-specialists from The Washington Post...
Wellness programs are wasted efforts unless workers take part, but for now, they remain mostly voluntary. A 2005 study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that at most companies, less than half of employees participated. That's where the carrots and sticks come in. While employers like Kaiser Permanente dangle cash incentives for workers who submit to health evaluations, others, like AstraZeneca, threaten higher premiums for not taking part. Scotts Miracle-Gro has gone so far as to fire a worker for smoking; he has since filed a federal lawsuit charging discrimination. Worthington CEO McConnell says he would...
...come up with the next big things for the nose or taste bud, fragrance-and-flavor companies send their scientists on "scent treks." On a recent trip to Papua New Guinea, Roman Kaiser, director of smell research for Givaudan, collected more than 50 samples, including a rare hoya plant. "The scent reminds you of dark chocolate, with olfactory notes rarely found in flowers," Kaiser says. He has amassed more than 2,500 natural scents over the years and has reconstituted more than 450. To create authentic flavorings, Givaudan's researchers go on "taste treks" to gourmet restaurants and popular street...
Subha Patel, Kaiser's counterpart at IFF, has journeyed to Kenya and Guangzhou in China. In Southern India, she drew smell samples from cardamom flowers, local tea and fresh red clay. In lieu of bringing back buckets of samples or dead flowers, Patel records her findings chemically. Her primary tool, a solid-phase microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana...