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...David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Center of the Study of Ethics at Indiana University, said in an interview last night that it is not unheard-of for a corporation like Dow to sponsor research which is intimately linked to its products. Smith cited the tobacco industry's funding of research on smoking...
...That strikes me as a bad mistake," David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Center of the Study of Ethics at Indiana University, said in an interview yesterday. "I think readers of professional journals have a right to know the kinds of engagements that the editorial writers have...
David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Centerfor the Studies of Ethics at Indian University,says a conflict arises when the University is in aposition to do business with the corporationsaffiliated with the members of the governingboards...
There was plenty to get upset about. Two years of unusually cloudy weather cast a pall over the entire operation. The hummingbirds died, and so did the finches. The bees failed to pollinate the squash, and mites feasted on the beans and white potatoes. One crew member, Jane Poynter, lost a fingertip in a thresher accident. (She was whisked out for emergency treatment and then returned.) The rest came down with assorted complaints: diarrhea, back pain, eye and urinary-tract infections and a cold that made the rounds until there was no one left to catch...
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, the very model of a white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A. veteran (M. Emmet Walsh) and a nervy fellow addict (Kathy Baker) help him see the dark before the light. Some of the early scenes ring as inauthentic as the Philadelphia accents; each supporting junkie pushes too hard, as if he were part of an Actors Lab experiment that failed...