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That makes perfect sense to Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. Since 1988 he has studied American centenarians--he calls them "expert survivors"--and compared them to people in their 80s ("master survivors") and to relative youngsters in their 60s. Poon found that out of 16 personality traits, the experts exhibited four coping mechanisms. First, he says, "centenarians are more dominant. They want to have their way," and they are not easily pushed around. Many are characterized by "suspiciousness. They do not take information on the superficial level" but will question an issue and think...
...going to consider it, but there is more to think about than just housing,” said Bonnie M. Y. Poon ’04, who is from Hong Kong. “It is great that Lewis is making it an option...
...more regular publishing schedule. Second, in a further effort to reduce self-distractions, the small, top-floor room with the “entertainment equipment” should be off-limits for a reasonable period before publication. And third, and perhaps most importantly, the ’Poon should maintain—indeed, enhance—its policy of regular drug consumption in an effort to further develop its collective humorous intellect. What’s a brain good for without a boost from Mary Jane...
...Asian joined to rail against those pesky American drinking laws. (And, this time at least, many of their American undergraduate comrades would probably join in the spirit of global unity.) “Having to be 21 to drink is really annoying,” laments Bonnie M. Y. Poon ’04. “Back at high school in Hong Kong I used to go to the pub with my teachers all the time.” Yet in spite of almost all being of age, only Palmer-Amaning helped himself to a Heineken care of FM?...
...saying that Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” was his favorite class at Harvard. But all seemed to revel in the freedom provided by Harvard’s curriculum. “I love the flexibility of a Harvard undergraduate education,” says Poon, now a psychology concentrator. “I changed concentrations four times...