Olympics Sponsors Counseled to "Keep Quiet" on Darfur
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Corporate sponsors of this summer's Beijing Olympics Games are increasingly nervous.
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Microsoft Tells Students: We Have Rights Too, You Know
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"Education is the key to stemming illegal downloads of music and other content," concluded a new study.
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Opaque Transparency
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The Big Dirty Hands Behind Wal-Mart's Greenwashing
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Phil Mattera, the research director of Good Jobs First, reflects on the rise and fall of greenwashing during the 1990's and asks whether we are "now seeing a green business boom that will also turn out to be nothing more than hot air?" While a marketing consultancy company, TerraChoice, last year identified what it dubbed as "six sins of greenwashing", Mattera believes that
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Smoldering Controversy
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"Here's a recipe for academic controversy," observes Richard C. Paddock: "First, find dozens of hard-core teenage smokers as young as 14 and study their brains with high-tech scans. Second, feed vervet monkeys liquid nicotine and then kill at least six of them to examine their brains. Third, accept $6 million from tobacco giant Philip Morris to pay for it all.
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Merck Minimizes Accusations It Swindled the U.S. Government
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The pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to a $650 million settlement to escape charges that it routinely overbilled the U.S. government for medicines.
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Big Oil: Coming Soon to a Rotary Club Near You!
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The American Petroleum Institute's (API's) efforts to assuage public resentment of the oil industry apparently know no bounds. API's Denise McCourt recently addressed a Rotary Club meeting in Charleston, West Virginia. "The oil and natural gas industry hasn't done a very good job telling people about energy issues," McCourt told the group.
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GM Runs from RAN, then Discusses Greenwashing
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GM's Bob Lutz, in one of the company's fake news spotsIn January, General Motors launched a new website, "GMnext" (which includes a wiki), to mark its 100th anniversary a
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Meijer Admission
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The Meijer retail chain has issued a public apology, admitting that it "likely violated campaign finance and reporting laws" and pledging to "comply with any and all direction, penalties, fines or other actions required by the Department of State" in connection with its covert effort to manipulate elections in Acme Township, Michigan, where local officials opposed its
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Science for Hire Comes Under Fire
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