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Albany Times-Union interviewed Bob Baker and Glenn McGee for this piece about the ethical implications of Hurricane Katrina.

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The Daily Mail in the UK reports that some doctors gave lethal injections to their patients during the evacuation, apparently with the intention to kill
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=361980&in_page_id=1770
By the way, the story about the woman who called her son for several days as the water rose was a lie. The poor people in that nursing home who died were drowned on the first day of the rising water, after the hurricane, but before they could have called anyone over a series of days.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050909-11212400-bc-us-katrina-nursinghome.xml

- by Beverly on Sep 12, 2005 at 9:05 AM | link

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