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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...
...What kind of health-care reform would Republicans like to see? Four conservative GOP lawmakers - Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina, along with Congressmen Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California - introduced a proposal on May 19 that looks a lot like the one John McCain advanced during his presidential campaign as well as an idea George W. Bush advanced as President...
...Richard Breeden, a restructuring expert who led the turnaround of WorldCom, is also probably on a number of board-recruitment wish lists. In addition to his Wall Street experience, Breeden knows Washington. From 1989 to 1993, he was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. William Donaldson, another former chairman of the SEC, also has the Washington and Wall Street experience that would make him a good get in today's bank-board race. "The problem these boards have had is that the people who know the most are the insiders," says top financial-services recruiter Gary Goldstein...
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...still fighting two unfinished wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and trying to avoid another one, with Iran. But Pakistan--a country that has nuclear weapons and is falling into chaos--is becoming the Obama Administration's biggest foreign policy challenge. Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, told Congress that the Pakistani President "should be treated as the leader of a country who vitally needs our support and whose success is vitally related to American interests...