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Many employees whose roles were cut, including the designer, who was laid off in early November, have remained in a liminal state of “nonactive” employment since then: technically still part of the company and getting paid accordingly, but with no work to do or access to internal software.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Post researcher Alice Crites checked in Missouri and Kansas for nonactive medical licenses of doctors named Carolyn and matched them with voter registrations for Fort Myers Beach.

It could be that some of the nonactive ingredients in a given repellent are affecting how well they perform.

And manufacturers are reluctant to provide their formulas to researchers for testing — they consider them to be trade secrets — so independent scientific studies of insect repellents can’t test how a repellent’s nonactive ingredients may be contributing to its efficacy.

Yet researchers have struggled to understand why patients given a nonactive therapy such as a sugar pill still feel relief.