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...just begun in New York, and people were starting to quit smoking,” he explains. His Eureka moment came when talking to a friend trying to cut back on cigarettes. “He told me he just couldn’t get over the oral fixation,” Rich recalls. Instantly the idea crystallized in his head: “why not make a mint picking up on that psychological connection...
...three bought a World War II-era tableting machine and found (via a Google search) a freelancing flavor specialist who had crafted the flavors behind Lifesavers for forty years. Thus, Oral Fixation Mints were born...
...right mix for each flavor. “We just started banging them out, but we needed a clever package for them, too.” Keeping in mind the company goal of making everyday things beautiful, Rich, Kahn, and Harris immediately set to work on designing their product, Oral Fixation mints, in sleek metal packages resembling retro cigarette cases. They also launched a well-designed website, www.oralfix.com, which has helped to drum up interest in their aesthetically pleasing products...
...really fair to blame Hong Kong's politicians for arrested development: Legco was designed for political midgets by Hong Kong's British colonial rulers. Half the chamber's seats will not be elected by neighborhoods but rather by industry groups, which has produced such fascinating challenges as the oral surgeons vs. the doctors for the medical seat. Nor, perhaps, should Hong Kong's people be criticized for concentrating their attention, this year, on the existential questions of democracy and their relationship with Beijing. But for Hong Kong to take genuine steps towards true democracy will require more than Beijing loosening...
...children. Treatment for the illness--corticosteroid drugs such as prednisone--can lead to bone loss in adults, but the drugs appear to be safe for these youngsters' bones. The authors of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine speculate that children with nephrotic syndrome who take oral corticosteroids--not to be confused with anabolic steroids, the drugs that some athletes abuse--don't suffer from osteoporosis because the drugs cause them to gain weight. Those extra pounds may stimulate bones to grow stronger to compensate. Not to worry: the study finds that obesity rates drop off once these...