Ethics Headlines is an
ethics-in-the-news clipping file published each Friday by Greg
Feldmeth, a
high school teacher at Polytechnic
School
in Pasadena, California. It contains news items from the media in the
past week that deal with some area of ethical inquiry.
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This
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Previous Issues
- Schoolbooks are given F’s in originality. This is how the 2005 edition of “A History of the United States,” a high school history textbook by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin and Brooks Mather Kelley, relates the cataclysmic attacks of 9/11 for a new generation of young adults: “In New York City, the impact of the fully fueled jets caused the twin towers to burst into flames....” The language is virtually identical to that in the 2005 edition of another textbook, “America: Pathways to the Present,” by different authors. The books use substantially identical language to cover other subjects as well, including the disputed presidential election of 2000, the Persian Gulf war, the war in Afghanistan and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
- From the high school front lines in the culture wars. A parent from Plymouth, N.Y., has sent along another example of liberals gone wild. Fishing through her son's backpack (he's a ninth grader), she found a crumpled up handout from the health teacher. The title caught her attention: "Dysfunctional 'Family Rules.'(Mona Charen)
- Choosing baby's sex to be outlawed. Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the UK under Government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation. Health Minister Caroline Flint told MPs she was minded to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby.
- How cloning stacks up.
Cloning
to reproduce a human being
is now seen almost universally as too dangerous to consider. And animal
cloning hasn't attained many of the goals expected a decade ago. Still,
at least 15 mammals have been cloned (though no primates) and research
continues.
Previous Issues
- Volume 2, Week 27--July 7
- Volume 2, Week 26--June 30
- Volume 2, Week 25--June 23
- Volume 2, Week 24--June 16
- Volume 2, Week 23--June 9
- Volume 2, Week 22--June 2
- Volume 2, Week 21--May 26
- Volume 2 , Week 20--May 19
- Volume 2, Week 19--May 12
- Volume 2, Week 18--May 5
- Volume 2, Week 17--April 28
- Volume 2, Week 16--April 21
- Volume 2, Week 15--April 14
- Volume 2, Week 14--April 7
- Volume 2, Week 13--March 31
- Volume 2, Week 12--March 24
- Volume 2, Week 11-March 17
- Volume 2, Week 10-March 10
- Volume 2, Week 9-March 3
- Volume
2, Week 8-February 24
- Volume
2, Week 7-February 17
- Volume
2, Week 6-February 10
- Volume
2, Week 5--February 3
- Volume
2, Week 4--January 27
- Volume
2, Week 3--January 20
- Volume
2, Week 2--January 13
- Volume 2, Week 1--January 6