Word: consciousnesses
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...important is your racial identity to you? Researchers long thought it wasn't that crucial to whites. But a groundbreaking new study on whiteness and race relations by University of Minnesota sociologists shows that whites in the U.S. are far more conscious of being white--and the privileges it brings--than was believed...
Peer Advisor: 1. A socially conscious upperclassman who donates his or her time to hosting weekly study breaks and offering tame advice to first-years. 2. Probably a better source of academic advice than your official advisor (see Advising...
...members to start Infosys, today a $23 billion outsourcing giant and India's second-largest software company. Murthy, whose personal fortune is estimated at $1.2 billion, is leaving after reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age but will continue to serve as nonexecutive chairman. DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band...
DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture--the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death--to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line...
...also Lesson 2: Make money. Stone Barns devotes more than half the space in the greenhouse to salad greens not only because they will flourish there without the use of chemicals but also because they draw a good price in a health-conscious place like Westchester County. (Despite the close links, Barber insists that the Stone Barns farm sells its produce to his Blue Hill restaurants at fair-market value. The farm also sells to retail customers at a small but busy on-site market...