BANKERS EMBRACE "GOLDEN SKELETON" MASCOT At a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited, two men posing as Dow representatives described a new Dow computer program that puts a precise financial value on human life. The 70 bankers in attendance enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which described various industrial crimes, including IBM's sale of technology to the Nazis for use in identifying Jews, as "golden skeletons in the closet"--i.e. lucrative and therefore acceptable. Several of the bankers then posed for photos with "Dow Acceptable Risk" mascot "Gilda, the Golden Skeleton," and signed up for licenses for the "Acceptable Risk Calculator," which helps businesses determine the exact point where human casualties will start to cut into profit, and suggests the best regions on earth to locate ventures with potentially very high death tolls. See dowethics.com to try out the "Acceptable Risk Calculator" for yourself. Dow may not appreciate the DowEthics.com website--but the US State Department finds it quite useful, and refers requests for information about Bhopal to various of its pages: see dowethics.com/statedeptfoi/ for an example. CONTACT: dowmedia@theyesmen.org The Sambhavna Trust Clinic of Bhopal opened a new wing to serve the victims whose numbers continue to grow due to groundwater contamination from the uncleaned plant site. See bhopal.org for information on how you can contribute. See theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow/2005agm.shtml for complete statements and responses.