Word: hamer
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...researchers is to locate the precise gene or genes involved and attempt to determine their biochemical effects. Will finding such "gay genes" rule out the idea that social and psychological influences can have a significant effect on a man's sexual preference? "Absolutely not," declares molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute, who headed both the 1993 investigation and the new one. "From twin studies, we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors, not to negate the psychosocial factors...
Other fellows are Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Robert R. Krueger, Elizabeth McHenry, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Sidney N. Klaus, Maria Diedrich, Rebecca Carroll, Barry Hallen, Mary Hamer, Roger R. House, Shelly Leanne, Alessandra Lorini, Jill Netchinsky-Toussaint, Stephan Palmie, Barbara L. Solow, Therese Steffen and Patricia Sullivan...
...Network news and the commuter state has sold the ridership of the T to a third party," Hamer said. "It's just another example of how public and private interests are in conflict...
...Hamer said she and fellow organizer Lydia Eccles decided to take legal action in March when they first heard of the MBTA's plans...
...Hamer and Eccles researched their case and then presented it to the American Civil Liberties Union, which agreed to lodge a complaint, Hamer said...