Word: bensons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enough of pandering to the system. They wanted to go create their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting that his subjects' disgust for "coconuts" actually masks a fear that they themselves might be considered soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree...
...like losing gamblers [because we live in a] society that gambles that pandemics won’t happen,” he said. He suggested preemptive actions and measures such as quarantines with humane conditions. The audience members praised the interdisciplinary nature of the panel. Eric R. Benson, a second-year HLS student who attended the event, said “a lot of people tend to specialize in different perspectives on the same issue. It’s when we bring people together and hear these different perspectives that we get a lot out of [the discussion...
...factories that are said to be located in the Rajin area on the northeast coast of North Korea are allegedly run or financed by crime syndicates from Taiwan. One of these factories, equipped with second-hand equipment from China, has allegedly counterfeited such brands as Mild Seven, Dunhill and Benson & Hedges. According to the report, another factory in Rajin employed 120 people and was run by Chinese supervisors and technicians; North Korean officials were allegedly paid a "tax" on the factory's cigarettes, which were then exported in fishing vessels owned by a Taiwan crime syndicate. Indeed, the report claims...
Thomas R. Benson ’09, who said he is considering a professional career in politics, wrote in an e-mail that the uproar over Kennedy’s Owl ties would not discourage him from joining a final club. “The attack on Kennedy was unmerited,” Benson wrote...
...contrary to what should happen as the brain ages so the researchers concluded that the meditation was responsible for this physical effect. “When compared to age match controls, the people who weren’t evoking the relaxation response had thinner cortexes,” commented Benson. The group that was tested ranged from 25-50-year-olds who meditated lightly—approximately 40 minutes a day. The implications of these findings could be very important, said Lazar and Benson. After completing this study, Lazar said she believes, “The effects of meditation...