Word: hamer
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...violates passengers' first amendment rights by manipulating them as a "captive audience" to watch advertisements, according to Wendy Hamer, one of the group's organizers. The 12-person group also objects to the collaboration of a state agency and Metrovision of North America, a cable company which provides programming for subway televisions around the country...
...Hamer said that MBTA, Metrovision and Channel 5, the Boston ABC affiliate, have negotiated an exclusive deal to air a mixture of paid advertisements, paid news programming, and transit information...
...National Institutes of Health scientist Dean Hamer reported that he and his colleagues had isolated a group of genes more prevalent in homosexuals than in the rest of the population. Immediately following the announcement, the words "gay genes" were transformed from figments of imagination to somewhat fuzzy reality. The sizzling controversy of homosexuality had become, for many, a purely scientific issue...
...Hamer has not yet fallen victim to the same temptation as his fellow scientists who have been catapulted to national recognition. The subject of Hamer's research was no less in the public eye, but rather than succumb to the desires of public affairs officials and media organizations and come out on one side or the other of the national or regional debate, Hamer has thus far steered clear of making any sociological determinations based on his genetics work...
Applauding Hamer, however, does not absolve those who would seek shelter behind the chromosome to explain their own insecurities. Rather, it provides a model for scientists who would--and should--seek to avoid the spectacle of half-page color pictures of Gilbert Mudge in the Boston Globe and banner headlines in the New York Post about MGH AIDS researcher Yung-Kang Chow, a "make-good" Asian immigrant...