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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:07 PM
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Subject: Ethics Newsline -- 02/04/02
INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ETHICS
E T H I C S N E W S L I N E
02/04/02
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The February 4, 2002, edition of "Ethics Newsline" is
posted:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue2.tmpl
In this issue:
1. Statline: College Students Weighing In, Leaning Left
2. Commentary: "Plagiarism: A Double Standard?"
3. What They're Saying
4. Congress to Sue White House for Withholding Information
5. U.K. Energy Firms Blasted over Alleged Misbehavior
6. Fetuses Covered by Controversial New Health Care Provision
7. Pope Calls for Judges and Lawyers to Shun Divorce Cases
8. Convicted Felon's Transplant Ignites Medical Ethics Debate
9. Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Palestinian Territories
10. Canadian Company Halts Factory Closure in Germany
11. Tyson Barred from Boxing in Nevada
12. Will Enron Whistleblower Emerge a Hero?
13. Canada Loses at the WTO in Aerospace Battle with Brazil
14. Research Report: College Freshmen More Politically Liberal than in the
Past
15. William Shakespeare on Calculated Honesty
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1. Statline:
College Students Weighing In, Leaning Left
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021615
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2. Commentary:
"Plagiarism: A Double Standard?"
...When the well-known plagiarize, they quietly settle
out of the public spotlight. When ordinary folks plagiarize,
they get dismissed from college or sent packing by their
employers. If plagiarism matters, plagiarists in high
places owe us more than partial explanations, emended
reprintings, and apologies extracted under duress. If
plagiarism doesn't matter, then those in low places --
freshmen English students, for instance -- should be
allowed to copy away merrily. In which world do we
want to live?
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021615
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3. What They're Saying:
What Did We Do?
"In another 10 to 15 years from today, people will
look back, take their heads in their hands, and say,
'What did we do?'"
-- Noam Livne, a reservist in the Israeli army, lamenting
Israel's use of military force in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, where roughly 150 Jewish settlements have been
constructed amidst Palestinian homes. Livne and more
than 80 other Israeli servicemembers last week said
they would no longer participate in military operations
in the Palestinian territories, accusing the Israeli
military of forcing them to participate in illegal
violence and harassment against the Palestinians
living there. (AP, Jan. 25.)
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4. Congress to Sue White House for Withholding Information
WASHINGTON
The investigative agency of the U.S. Congress last week
said it would sue the White House for access to information
regarding Vice President Dick Cheney's meetings while
formulating the nation's energy policy....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021617
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5. U.K. Energy Firms Blasted over Alleged Misbehavior
LONDON
British energy firms were slammed last week by a watchdog
group accusing them of using heavy-handed sales tactics to
push consumers to switch their power providers....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021619
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6. Fetuses Covered by Controversial New Health Care Provision
WASHINGTON
In a move that could bolster the legal tactics of
abortion opponents, the Bush administration said last
week that it would add fetuses to a child care program
operated by the federal government, classifying them as
"unborn children," and thereby guaranteeing low-income
pregnant women prenatal and delivery care....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021620
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7. Pope Calls for Judges and Lawyers to Shun Divorce Cases
VATICAN CITY
Pope John Paul II last week called on the world's judges
and lawyers to avoid litigating divorce cases, saying that
they are abetting a process of social disintegration....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021621
1951
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8. Convicted Felon's Transplant Ignites Medical Ethics Debate
SAN FRANCISCO
A convicted felon in California was given a heart transplant
last month, an operation that could eventually cost taxpayers
up to $1 million and has already fueled debate over the
decision-making process involved in transplant procedures....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021621
5540
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9. Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Palestinian Territories
JERUSALEM
More than 80 reservists in the Israeli army last week said
they would no longer serve on missions in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, saying such operations are not necessary for
security and amount to brazen military oppression of
Palestinians....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021622
2660
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10. Canadian Company Halts Factory Closure in Germany
AMMENDORF, Germany
After an intervention by German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder to stop the closure of a rail car assembly
plant in the economically depressed city of Ammendorf,
Germany, the owners of the plant, Bombardier Inc. of
Montreal, Canada, have announced that the firm has
reversed its decision to close the plant....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021623
0278
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11. Tyson Barred from Boxing in Nevada
LAS VEGAS
Mike Tyson was barred last week from boxing in Nevada
by the state's licensing board, which ruled 4-1 that
the boxer's behavior made his planned championship
fight in Las Vegas a bad bet for the state....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021623
4093
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12. Will Enron Whistleblower Emerge a Hero?
HOUSTON
The fate of most corporate whistleblowers -- persecution,
pariah status, and blacklisting -- may be escaped by
Enron's Sherron Watkins, the executive who warned of
her company's probable wrongdoing last August, according
to an article last week from "BusinessWeek."...
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021624
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13. Canada Loses at the WTO in Aerospace Battle with Brazil
OTTAWA
Canada lost one round in an ongoing trade dispute with
Brazil over subsides to their main aerospace corporations
after a WTO panel ruled last week that Canada broke
international trade rules when it gave a $1.07 billion
low-interest loan to Air Wisconsin to buy 75 regional
jets from Bombardier Inc. of Montreal....
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021624
4886
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14. Research Report:
College Freshmen More Politically Liberal than in the Past
From the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of
California, Los Angeles:
"...UCLA's annual survey of the nation's students
entering undergraduate classes ... finds that 29.9
percent of students entering four-year colleges and
universities characterize their political views as
'liberal' or 'far left,' the highest percentage in
two decades, and substantially higher than the 20.7
percent who consider themselves 'conservative' or
'far right.'... The tendency toward liberalism among
the 2001 freshmen is evident in their changing attitudes
about a wide range of social and political issues,
including the death penalty, drug testing, and gay
rights."...
Link to story:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue.tmpl?id=0204021625
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15. Quote from the Ethics File:
William Shakespeare on Calculated Honesty
"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an
old man no honester than I."
-- William Shakespeare (English dramatist and poet
(1564-1616)
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Full issue available here:
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue2.tmpl
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