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Robert Walker, former chair of the House Science Committee and president of the Wexler Group--a Washington based lobbyist firm--said that fuel cells have a bright future, but are marred by high costs today...
...burden of knowing can overwhelm the benefits. Nationwide, only 1,500 genetic counselors, most of them drawing on guidelines derived from Brandt's research, have been trained to help people assess such risks. "The protocol developed by Brandt is a paradigm for other late-onset, incurable diseases," says Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and a leading HD researcher. "It's very responsive to individual needs...
...many crew members are focusing on improving overall industry conditions by curtailing hours. In a campaign prompted by Hershman's death, Haskell Wexler, a renowned cinematographer (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), is leading a petition drive to impose a 14-hour workday. "People are working as zombies," he says. Among those who have signed are Julia Roberts, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Sally Field and Harold Ramis...
...think when he says 'awful' he means 'full of awe,'" said Susan Wexler, who said she is a regular attendant of services at Memorial Church...
...Wexler is traditionally liberal in many ways: he favors the assault-weapons ban and opposes school prayer and the balanced-budget amendment. However, in his past three years as a state Senator he proposed that chastity and sobriety be taught in public schools and that rapists have their sex drives chemically lowered on the second offense and to allow judges to impose a death sentence on the third--though he has altered his position and now calls for tough sentences instead...