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In the May 31, 2005, edition of Ethics Newsline:

For the complete issue, click here: http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue2.tmpl

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1. Statline:

Public Rates Professions' Ethics

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=0531051817000

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2. Commentary by Rushworth Kidder:

Days of Remembrance

Memorial Day, the late-May U.S. holiday, coincides with school graduations and the change of seasons, blending commencement and summertime and remembrance. In one intense season of ceremony and start-of-summer storewide sales, we send forth the young, salute the dead, and celebrate the coming solstice. Is this right? In this particularly American blend of the commercial, the educational, and the military, are we dishonoring those who went before us? Are we at risk of discounting the sacrifices that helped defend the physical, mental, and moral infrastructure we've inherited?....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518184666

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3. What They're Saying:

Come to Terms

"I despised what he had done to me.... [But] you can't throw a human being away. When you see someone you have lived with, and you are so angry with them, you have to come to terms with yourself and get rid of the bitterness. Not for their sake, but for your own."

-- Millie Hayes, 67, a Louisiana antiques shop owner, talking with the "New York Times" about her decision to serve as caregiver for her ex-husband, a man described as cruel and controlling, as his health deteriorated due to Alzheimer's. As the U.S. population ages, the "Times" says healthcare workers are seeing a growing trend: "In scenes exhibiting a vivid range of feelings -- acrimony, compassion, rekindled love, abiding friendship -- sick and dying Americans are being cared for by former spouses."....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518191212

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4. U.S. Supplying Arms to Undemocratic, Oppressive Nations, Study Claims

NEW YORK

Seeking to secure military bases abroad and reward U.S. allies in the "war on terror," the United States is supplying weapons to nations deemed undemocratic and oppressive by its own State Department, a group studying arms sales warned last week....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518194765

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5. Amnesty International Slams U.S. for Human Rights Violations

WASHINGTON

Amnesty International last week lashed out at the United States over its treatment of terrorism detainees and prisoners, saying U.S. efforts to subvert international treaties against torture have made the world a more dangerous place....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518202477

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6. Treasurer of Powerful Texas PAC Fined Nearly $200,000

AUSTIN, Texas

A Texas political action committee (PAC) established by House Majority Leader Tom Delay violated campaign finance laws by failing to report nearly $700,000 in donations used to elect Republican candidates, a state judge ruled last week....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518210717

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7. Teachers Quit after Colleague is Fired for Challenging Principal

KANSAS CITY, Missouri

Seven of 10 teachers in a small Missouri school district quit their jobs last week to show support for a colleague who was fired after protesting the punishment of a fourth-grader as unsafe....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518213593

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8. Drug Firms Faulted for Continued Lack of Disclosure

NEW YORK

Citing a federal review of disclosure data, the "New England Journal of Medicine" last week accused three of the country's leading drug companies of not providing enough information about their clinical trials....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518220582

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9. Guidant Did Not Disclose Defibrillator Flaw for 3 Years

INDIANAPOLIS

Medical equipment maker Guidant Corp. last week disclosed that one of its surgically implanted defibrillators contained a flaw that could cause the device to malfunction -- news the company had known about for three years....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518223497

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10. Kenya Prosecutor Fired after Dropping Charges against Aristocrat

NAROK, Kenya

Kenya's president last week sacked a senior prosecutor for dismissing murder charges against a British aristocrat accused of killing a Maasai game warden investigating poaching....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518225899

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11. Geologist Behind Canada's Bre-X Scandal May Have Faked Death

TORONTO

A geologist at the center of one of Canada's biggest financial scandals, the fraudulent massive gold find by the former Canadian mining company Bre-X, may have faked his own death, according to press reports....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518232471

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12. Research Report:

'Public and Press Differ about Partisan Bias, Accuracy, and Press Freedom'

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania:

"The American public disapproves only narrowly of partisan journalism, splits about evenly on whether news organizations usually get their facts straight, and narrowly accepts the idea that the government can limit the right of the press to report a story, according to a national survey conducted for the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center...."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/31/2005&;id=05310518241024

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

My Religion

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

-- Thomas Paine (U.S. political philosopher and author, 1737-1809)

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