Gum seems to be quite the topic lately. The International Chewing Gum Association's website now features a pretty cool Flash site on how gum is made - both sticks and pellets. And you may have heard that chewing gum may help you drop some pounds or make you smarter. (By the way, our very own Wrigley sponsored that research...so take that as you will.) Mental Floss blogged about gum recently and devoted a couple of pages in its most recent issue on the chewy substance. It was this article's story about Chicago's own Wrigley Company that caught our eye. more ›