Word: bensons
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...report cleared some DOD personnel of wrongdoing but concluded that the chaplain, Colonel Ralph G. Benson, had "provided a selective benefit" to the Christian Embassy by "mischaracterizing" the video as a documentation of the chaplain's ministry rather than a film promoting the Christian Embassy group and intended for outside consumption. The mischaracterization, the report noted, enabled the video's makers to film in recognizable Pentagon locations...
...Chaplain Benson told the Inspector General's office that the office had violated his due process rights, that it lacked authority to investigate a complaint by a non-federal employee, that Benson's speech was protected under the Constitution's First Amendment, and that his identification in the film as "Pentagon Chaplain" did not imply DOD endorsement of the film...
...Higginson Professor of English Literature Larry D. Benson, who was the chair of the English department in the latter half of 1982, says that the incident “wasn’t anything that left a deep impression...
...calls for retaliation, over the Cabot House open list. Mather House, last year’s Green Cup winner, was the primary suspect identified in the e-mail chain. “Someone saw the Green Cup being carried past Dunster to Mather,” said Thomas R. Benson ’09, the Outreach Chair of the Environmental Action Committee and a Cabot House resident. “If Mather doesn’t give the cup back, they should expect that there might be something happening at Mather Lather.” But some Cabot residents offered...
Luckily, space is a gold mine. A geologist by training, Benson points out that all those comets and asteroids tumbling around in near-Earth orbit contain water and minerals. Water's components--hydrogen and oxygen--are the building blocks of life and a darn good rocket fuel as well. Some estimates put the number of asteroidal water deposits at 5 million. Some metallic asteroids have 100 times the concentration of gold of any mines on earth today. (Earth's gold results from some of those asteroids crashing into the planet.) "While exploration is going on, we can use those natural...