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...developed its own program, but some companies are hiring outsiders. Packaging and specialty-chemical giant MeadWestvaco, for instance, chose Virgin HealthMiles, a Richard Branson brainchild, to design a wellness regimen centered on pedometers, which count employees' steps. The pedometers are linked to a computer system that converts the steps into "healthmiles" - points that can be exchanged for up to $500 a year in cash or gift cards from merchants like Target and Bed Bath & Beyond. "You look out the window here at lunchtime and see people with pedometers on, walking all over the place," says Greg Williams, the company...
Stock pickers should consider steel (Nucor, International Steel Group), fertilizer (Agrium), farm equipment (Deere), coal (Peabody), precious metals (Newmont Mining), paper goods (International Paper, MeadWestvaco) and energy (ExxonMobil). Then, when the prices you pay at the counter go up, so should your portfolio...
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