21.   A draft European Union directive on harmonizing patent regulations throughout Europe contains provisions that suggest ethical questions should be considered as well.

22.   A letter written by Gen. Stan Spears, the South Carolina adjutant general, endorsing George W. Bush has raised ethical questions and angered some National Guard members.

23.   A panel of judges may seek clarification or may rest, turning over the ethical question to an opposing team.

24.   Alongside those ethical questions are related financial ones.

25.   But also arising with this advancing technology of genetics are a series of ethical questions for researchers, health workers and patients.

26.   But for Relkin and others, the most immediate ethical question is how to study people who had apo E tests done in connection with heart disease research.

27.   But he said that if there was a plan to seek money from guests after they left the White House meeting, it raised ethical questions.

28.   But if the Massachusetts study produces a strong positive result, as participants expect, that may raise ethical questions about continuing the federal trial.

29.   But Karen Toepfer of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, based in Hays, Kan., said ethical questions remain, especially involving large snakes.

30.   But involving kids in drug trials raises a host of ethical questions.