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Jan 13, 2004	10 secrets of the weight-loss industry QUOTE: Of the nearly 55 million Americans who will go on some kind of diet program, a slim percentage will successfully shed the weight and keep it off.	Bankrate.com
Jan 12, 2004	Some see fluorescent fish as neon signs of trouble QUOTE: Frankenfish or a harmless example of a genetically engineered animal? The GloFish is selling briskly but could this tiny creature represent a potential threat to public health and safety?	Chicago Tribune
Jan 11, 2004	Cancer 'Prevention' Is Hot, but Experts Are Split QUOTE: Cancer prevention is the new buzzword and competition among researchers for federal money is fierce. But experts are divided as to what can really be done to prevent the disease even as hundreds of the "worried well" pay hefty fees for information that may not protect them.	New York Times
Jan 09, 2004	Zoo Admits Mistakes in Animal Care QUOTE: The National Zoo has filed a formal response that disputes the claims of a former staff pathologist who said he uncovered a pattern of poor animal care, but the zoo acknowledges making numerous mistakes in treatment and record-keeping.	Washington Post
Jan 01, 2004	Defect Disclosure: When do I have to let customers know about defects? QUOTE: If I tell a customer the whole story when he first comes to look at a property, he may lose interest before he becomes aware of its advantages. How far can I put off disclosing some details?	Aish HaTorah
Dec 04, 2003	Should You Know Your Banker? QUOTE: Financing based on reputation quickly turns into financing based on connections, a closed system where what matters isn't what you know but whom.	New York Times
Nov 19, 2003	Did Jackie O.'s Priest Betray Her? QUOTE: Did Jackie Kennedy's priest violate canon law by allowing intimate conversations with her to made public? The late Rev. Richard McSorley, her "priest-confessor", is currently under fire for allowing an author to read excepts from her letters and his diary and to use them in a recent book.	Slate
Nov 12, 2003	Getting The Fat Out: Some companies knew the dangers of trans fats and took action. Now others must follow. QUOTE: "In Europe [food companies] hired chemists and took trans fats out," he says. "In the United States, they hired lawyers and public relations people."	Washington Post
Nov 11, 2003	ETFs: A Scandal-Free Option QUOTE: Unlike regular funds, which are priced only once a day, when the market closes, ETFs trade just like stocks. Thus, their prices change moment to moment, leaving scant opportunity for market timers to exploit them.	Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Nov 07, 2003	BALCO Doctor Denies Signing QUOTE: ...company was the source of a new "designer" steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, a substance manufactured specifically to be undetectable in standard drug tests.	Washington Post
Nov 03, 2003	U.N. to Consider Whether to Ban Cloning of Human Embryos QUOTE: Should therapeutic human cloning be banned entirely on moral grounds or should it be permitted to a limited degree in the interests of science? The United Nations will consider two competing resolutions that call for a ban on human cloning while establishing international legal boundaries for its restricted use in medical experiments.
Nov 03, 2003	As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down QUOTE: Nanoscale materials are already embedded in hundreds of products that we use daily but are they safe? Recent experiments raise troubling issues.	New York Times
Oct 21, 2003	Microsoft offers expiring documents and emails QUOTE: ...concerns that automatically deleting email messages and documents could cause legal problems with, for example, financial regulators who demand by law that all company records are kept.	New Scientist
Oct 12, 2003	To Whom May I Direct Your Free Call? QUOTE: ...VoIP companies receive an unfair advantage because the F.C.C. and state governments regulate them as information, not phone, companies because they rely completely on the Internet. That frees them from multiple tax and regulatory commitments...	New York Times
Sep 18, 2003	Verdict Set Aside Over Lawyer's Conduct QUOTE: [the attorney] "created a hostile climate that obscured the issues, rendered the trial unfair and was degrading to the institution of the Court."	Law.com
Sep 18, 2003	Genetic Basis to Fairness, Study Hints QUOTE: ...suggests that the monkeys have a sense of fair treatment and respond negatively when their expectations are violated...	New York Times
Sep 17, 2003	Bolshoi Decides It's Over Before 'Fat' Lady Dances QUOTE: ...one of Russia's most famous ballerinas, was fired by Moscow's Bolshoi Theater because they claimed she was too fat to dance in their ballet troop.	New York Times
Sep 02, 2003	Genes' Sway Over IQ May Vary With Class: Study: Poor More Affected by Environment QUOTE: a groundbreaking study of the interaction among genes, environment and IQ finds that the influence of genes on intelligence is dependent on class....results suggest that early childhood assistance programs such as Head Start can help the poor and are worthy of public support.	Washington Post
Aug 27, 2003	Understanding the Time Value of Money QUOTE: it is important to know how to calculate the time value of money so that you can distinguish between the worth of investments that offer you returns at different times.	Investopedia
Aug 14, 2003	Vatican backing sparks GM row QUOTE: Plans being laid at the Vatican to throw the Pope's vast moral influence behind the cultivation of genetically modified crops have sparked a row within the church.	Guardian Unlimited
Aug 14, 2003	Results Never Reported for Many Large Cancer Trials QUOTE: ...the lack of publishing can be seen as a breach of trust between the researchers and the patients who consented to participate in the trial...	American Cancer Society (ACS)
Jul 15, 2003	2 Women, 2 Deaths and an Ethical Quandary QUOTE: Critics argue that the risks were too high and that doctors had an ethical obligation to say no, especially since the sisters were physically healthy and the operation not medically necessary.	New York Times
Jul 10, 2003	The Risk That Failed QUOTE: ...brain scientists are thinking long and hard about the morality (right or wrong) and the ethics (fair or unfair) of what such breakthroughs as genomics, molecular imaging and pharmaceuticals will make it possible for them to do.	New York Times
Jun 14, 2003	History for Hire in Industry Lawsuits QUOTE: The American Prospect magazine, in a 2000 article, identified Dr. Ludmerer as well as the popular historian Stephen E. Ambrose and Theodore Marmor, a social scientist at Yale University, as high-paid consultants for the tobacco industry.	New York Times
Jun 06, 2003	For frequent fliers, more miles and fewer seats QUOTE: 'They just start to collect [frequent flier] miles," he said. "It's only when they try to redeem them that they realize there are problems.'	International Herald Tribune (IHT)
Jun 03, 2003	Futuremark says Nvidia didn't cheat, but broke rules QUOTE: Futuremark has changed its description, but not its opinion, of Nvidia's decision to use application-specific optimizations in its drivers that detected the presence of specific 3DMark03 tests and altered the performance of its graphics chip to achieve a higher benchmark result.	InfoWorld
May 01, 2003	Buy Where You Shop QUOTE: But if you aren't satisfied with the online shopping experience, you want to look at the physical product, for example browsing through a book in the store, you owe it to the retailer--and to yourself--to buy it there, rather than going home and saving a few dollars by ordering it online.	O'Reilly Media
Mar 06, 2003	Your name in the stars ... or maybe not QUOTE: No scientists, foreign countries, or official authorities will ever be aware that you "bought" your star, or use your name in any way. It's a hoax - these companies [that name stars after people for a fee] have absolutely no connection with the IAU, nor with any other official astronomical institution.	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 01, 2003	Which Price is Right? QUOTE: How can we increase profits if we can't raise prices? The answer demands revolutionary thinking -- new insights about strategy and human behavior, turbocharged with software, mathematics, and rapid-fire experimentation.	Fast Company
Jan 22, 2003	Whistleblowers and Team Players QUOTE: Whistleblowers are a reminder that ethics must be embodied in real flesh-and-blood human beings...Cultures reward team players, not whistleblowers...I have never seen a culture with a conscience.	Counterpunch
Jan 09, 2003	McDonald's Worker Resistance: Shaking the Golden Arches QUOTE: ...the fall-out from restaurant bombings and anti-globalisation protesters remain only the tip of the iceberg....The McChicken Sandwich you just ordered may well have been prepared by a member of the Zapatista like McDonald's Worker Resistance.	Counterpunch
Dec 11, 2002	Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution QUOTE: ...Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy....Piracy is progressive taxation....Customers want to do the right thing, if they can....Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.... File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers...."Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service....There's more than one way to do it.	Openp2p.com
Oct 16, 2002	How to Deal with "Jerks" Online: Behind the Scenes At the "Home Office"...on a Bad Day QUOTE: Men and women who would never steal in the real world have no qualms about ripping people off while hiding behind their monitor. And those who won't try to openly steal from you won't hesitate to lie to try to get something for free.	Writersweekly.com
Oct 11, 2002	Vatican Contemplates A Ban on Gay Priests QUOTE: The Vatican is internally circulating draft proposals that would bar homosexuals from becoming priests, a policy...getting renewed attention in the wake of sex abuse scandals in the United States.	Washington Post
Oct 01, 2002	The Secret Life of the CEO: Is the economy just built to flip? QUOTE: Just like the dotcom excesses, Enron used the capital markets to increase the price of a share -- independent of the underlying value of that share -- so that a few people could cash out at that inflated price before the markets pounded the price back down to the true value of the share.	Fast Company
Sep 01, 2002	Early Deliberations: A developmental psychologist investigates how children think about fairness and exclusion. QUOTE: Thus children could judge exclusion based on gender or race as legitimate because it confirms stereotypic norms, or they might view it with indifference. Alternatively, extensive research shows that fairness judgments emerge during preschool years regarding play. As children get older, their sense of fairness extends to resource allocation and concern for others’ welfare.	Southern Poverty Law Center
Jul 14, 2002	That Quest to Enhance Beauty Can Leave Scars QUOTE: ...medically complex cosmetic procedures are being offered in beauty salons, day spas and some nurses' clinics. And sometimes, they say, the procedures are performed by unlicensed or unqualified people, increasing the chances of something going wrong.	New York Times
Jan 27, 2002	Hidden fees, taxes and surcharges: That's the ticket QUOTE: Welcome to the new world of air travel, in which the fare is just the beginning of what you'll pay for a ticket.	Star Tribune (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Jan 07, 2002	Spyware, Part 3: is Using It Illegal…or Just Sleazy? QUOTE: "Will I go to jail if I put a keystroke logger on someone else's computer?"... The answer to the legal question depends on who you eavesdrop on.	ZDnet
Jan 04, 2002	Keep Yourself Top Secret! How to Defeat Spyware (Part 2) QUOTE: BUT TAKE HEART. You are not defenseless in the fight against keystroke loggers.	ZDnet
Jan 03, 2002	How They Know What You're Doing On Your PC (Part 1) QUOTE: Keystroke loggers have their place--if not in espionage, certainly in law enforcement. Knowing about their use, and abuse, is just part of being a savvy computer user or system administrator. Then again, you just might be someone who's concerned that a boss is electronically looking over your shoulder.	ZDnet
Jan 03, 2002	Fairness ABSTRACT: The best short answer to "What is Fairness" that I've seen, taken from "The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics".	Fairness.com
Dec 07, 2001	In the Name of Quality QUOTE: Knowing the names of the people who write your software doesn't give you a list of people whom you can blame when things go wrong; it gives you a list of people who are highly motivated to see that things don't go wrong in the first place.	InfoWorld
Nov 25, 2001	The Ethicist: Death On the Trail QUOTE: 1) Should a trail hiker put a small very injured animal out of its misery, or just move it to the side of the trail? 2) Should people forward the rampant e-mail warnings about terrorist attacks on shopping malls etc., or just delete them as they arrive?	New York Times
Oct 29, 2001	After An Online Ruckus, Microsoft Opens MSN Site to All QUOTE: the altered Microsoft site, dubbed MSN 7, treated some Internet browsers as second-class citizens, even preventing users with certain browsers from viewing the site....The Web cognoscenti flew into a virtual rage, firing off e-mail notes at a torrid pace. They saw the site changes as an assault on the most fundamental precept of the Web: that it should be open to all, not gated off in any way by a powerful company.	New York Times
Oct 15, 2001	Patent Reform, Intellectual Property, Cash Rewards: Bountyquest.com Interview QUOTE: ...mission is to reward people for their knowledge. We think we are giving scientists and engineers their first opportunity to get large rewards for information that they might have relevant to the patent field.	Fairness.com
Sep 07, 2001	Thumbs Down? Re-edit the Flick Yourself QUOTE: Lucasfilm has been supportive of such fan-created derivative works as the "Star Wars"-meets-"Cops" parody "Troops," but it views remakes of its own releases differently. "We always appreciate fans' enthusiasm and love of 'Star Wars,' but we can't allow them to duplicate and distribute our films for profit,"...	Washington Post
Sep 07, 2001	Disciplining Parents QUOTE: Parents who occasionally smack their children are not behaving violently. Violence represents the projection of physical force designed to injure or abuse.	Spiked Internet Magazine
Aug 24, 2001	Is Someone You Love Gambling Away Their -- and Your -- Future? QUOTE: ...while couples typically hold property as "Joint Tenants with Right of Survival" or "Tenancy in Common" these are not necessarily the best way to title assets. Instead, consider putting them solely in the name of the non-gambling spouse. However, be aware that this is not a fail-safe way to keep assets out of the hands of your spouse's creditors. Depending on the state where you live, no matter how the property is titled, you may still be liable for the debts racked up by your spouse.	Fox News
May 01, 2001	Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ABSTRACT: An updating by Rawls of seminal 1971 book Rawls:A Theory of Justice	Harvard University Press

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