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Second, baseball still has a lot of cleaning up to do. In his televised confession, Rodriguez cited the "loosey-goosey" attitude toward drugs earlier this decade. That's putting it mildly. The decision by management, coaches and the players' union to ignore the steroid problem was a beanball aimed straight at the sport's credibility. If we wanted a pharmacological freak show, we'd watch pro wrestling...
Paradoxical, maybe, but effective. Consider Amica Mutual Insurance, based in Rhode Island. Amica seemed to be doing everything right: it boasts an on-site fitness center at its headquarters. It pays toward Weight Watchers and smoking-cessation help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3,100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Amica...
There's nothing revolutionary about using incentives--financial carrots and sticks that reward and punish behavior--to coax workers toward good health. But behavior experts note that not all perks motivate all people. "To get a high-risk, overweight, four-pack-a-day smoker to change behavior, it's going to take a whole lot bigger incentive than for a 22-year-old who's healthy as a horse," says Bill Sims, president of an eponymous behavior-change consulting firm. Amica's diabetic employees weren't tempted by a subsidized gym membership. But they did respond to a plan that...
GERMANY People who trade in a car that's at least nine years old will get $3,200 toward the purchase...
...meantime, some school-district administrators have come up with creative solutions. Superintendent Jerry Vaughn of the Floydada Independent School District in Texas - which has 900 or so students - says he is working toward a partnership with a local wind-power company that would pay for a laptop for every kid in grades 6 through 12. At the fast-growing Forsyth County Schools District in Cumming, Ga., Bailey Mitchell, chief technology and information officer, recently opted to use free open-source software instead of purchasing expensive software licenses from vendors like Microsoft. Mitchell says the decision will save $1.1 million over...