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...Zuke, director of communications for cigarette giant Philip Morris, was calmly addressing planners of the company's Benson & Hedges blues festival in New Orleans when an unexpected visitor entered the room. "You are killing my people!" the woman shouted, turning over tables and ranting that advertisements and promotions aimed at minority smokers are immoral. After 30 seconds, order was restored, and the stunned p.r. staff learned that the outburst was only a drill. Zuke had paid a New York actress $5,000 to stage the disturbance to help event organizers learn how to handle the real thing. "I felt this...
...Stuff-A-Pumpkin's popularity has prompted an outbreak of plastic-bag thefts, leaves and all. A Houston family ended a string of such heists by coating the bags with grip-defying petroleum jelly. Benson Zinbarg, Sun Hill's president and founder, safeguards his own Stuff-A-Pumpkin by weighing it down with bricks...
...togetherness" and reduction of stress account for at least part of that remarkable reversal? Some experts think so. They point to studies that associate a sense of isolation with increased risk of many illnesses, including heart disease. And at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson is studying the biochemical effects of stress on the body...
...Stress, Benson explains, brings on a rise in blood pressure and spurs the release of catecholamines, substances that increase the tendency of blood to clot and make arteries more vulnerable to spasm. Over time, these changes play an important role, many doctors believe, in the progression of heart disease. However, Benson has shown, the changes can be largely counteracted by the "relaxation response" that follows 15 minutes of meditation...
...prices abroad. Tokyo's Nikkei index has fallen from its peak of 38,915 last December to a closing price of 22,828 last week. "This has probably been the largest bear market in any country since World War II," says Peter Tasker, head of research at Kleinwort Benson International in Tokyo. In a fleeting burst of euphoria, the index zoomed a record 13% last Tuesday, but much of the gain was the result of frantic government moves to shore up the market. Among other things, the Finance Ministry gave investors easier access to borrowed money and curbed the hours...