Chewing for dollars.

• Position: GUM - Sue McNamara - Brief article

Everyone wants Sue McNamara's job. Four mornings a week, she sits in a spotless room in a lab coat, chews gum, and talks about how it tastes. McNamara is a gum taster at Cadbury Schweppes Science and Technology Center in Whippany, N.J. "I have lawyer friends who tell me they want my job," she says. But these are not easy jobs to get. Only 10 percent of Americans are able to distinguish, say, between strawberry flavors that are green, gritty, or jammy, and the nearly 70...