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Nevertheless, enrollment in ethics courses is increasing, and enough new ethics courses have been developed in the past five years to exceed the bounds of coincidence...
...million chickens have been killed or maimed by the disease. Others have been quarantined, dying slowly of PBB-related diseases. But many animals were sold before the state realized the danger. Over 10,000 people in the state, mostly farmers, now have traces of PBB in their bodies that exceed the danger level for cattle set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No one knows what the long range effects of PBB are, but many of the farm families are experiencing the same symptons that afflicted their ailing cattle...
...which workers are exposed. One in four workers in the United States is exposed to some serious occupational hazards. The portion of the American public that comes into contact with hazardous substances leaked into the environment is not known. The level of most chemicals in the environment does not exceed the tolerance levels established by the FDA. However, many of these legally safe levels can become dangerous when they remain in the environment for long periods of time, penetrate the food chain and accumulate in the human body...
...incident by itself would matter all that much. But the weight of the total may exceed the sum of the parts. It seems to be the old problem of the magnifying effect of the White House. Richard Sennett, who has written an intriguing book on "the fall of public man," would perhaps see the White House problem as part of the larger trouble of a people who no longer believe that their public personalities should be based on what they would like to be rather than what they truly are. We are poorer, says Sennett, because we have abandoned control...
...compost heap. "Let the titans fight it out," sniffs Claude Sitton, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and a former top Timesman. Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan suggested that for the next Watergate miscreant's memoirs, newspapers collude on a single syndication bid, not to exceed...