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...gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than the driver's personality. So if you come across the SWEAT-BOX OF DEATH--a name actually given by one of the study's participants to his Ford Bronco--steer...
...broker for steering business its way. Marsh says it has been cooperating with Spitzer's investigation since the spring and has stopped taking the controversial payments. But last week it became clear that Spitzer's net had snared U.S. branches of Netherlands-based ING Group, British broker Benfield Group and Germany's Munich Re. The firms have denied wrongdoing, but investors were spooked. There are no reliable stats on how widespread the practice is in Europe, but price pressure on insurers after the scandal could lead to lower profit margins. It's a reminder that global business means global regulation...
...knows for sure why pennies are disappearing. A big factor, though, clearly is people's low regard for the things. Few carry them to spend or are willing to lug heavy sacks to the bank. James Benfield of the Coin Coalition, a lobby group for eliminating the penny, figures that 25% of annual penny production ends up in landfills...
...Nerys C. Benfield '99, Tara B. Purohit '99, Mariko L. Ryono '99 and William S. Triant '99 will receive between $10,000 and $25,000 dollars to aid their yearlong service projects...
...Both Benfield and Purohit will go to New York. Benfield will work with formerly homeless children to develop new mentoring and after-school programs at local schools...