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...into a dragon boat, Kathy Pollonais-Britt was most emphatically not a team player. The veteran marathon runner loved the solitude of pounding the pavement, not the egoism and pressure of team sports. "I'd never been a groupie," she says. But when her employer, the health-care company Kaiser Permanente, sponsored the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat in a long, narrow boat...
Corporations are proving to be among the most enthusiastic dragon boaters in the country. Kaiser Permanente, which sees dragon boating as an exercise in team building, has shelled out almost $40,000 for two boats and enough paddles and life vests for two teams. One boat went to its longest-paddling team of employees, the KP Dragons, and the other is shared among Pollonais-Britt's Dragon Healers and other crews in the California Dragon Boat Association. Teams like the Wal-Mart Warriors, VeRizing Dragons and Starbucks Waverunners have also entered festivals around the country, in competition against schools, police...
...Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest nonprofit health system, has arranged for weekly farmers' markets at 29 of its hospitals and has switched to milk from cows raised without synthetic hormones at all its medical centers. Organic fruits and vegetables are now being served at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In Hermiston, Ore., Good Shepherd Health Care System banned potato chips in favor of baby carrots and replaced beef with antibiotic- and hormone-free bison. "It has 75% less fat than beef and a third less fat than chicken," says dietitian...
...topping the 3,000-m mark, 15,000 km of trails and hundreds of farmhouses and taverns for rest and relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenh?tte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at...
...mark, 15,000 km of trails and hundreds of farmhouses and taverns for rest and relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenhütte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at MAUI, HAWAII: The 43 km of trails through Maui's Haleakala National Park nps.gov/hale may [an error occurred while processing this directive] seem a modest distance to experienced trekkers, but the varied and dramatic landscape will awe even the most seasoned veteran. From the volcanic Haleakala crater...