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...given much thought during his lives to the mysterious, possibly magic properties of human excrement, a topic that Mailer has pondered in an essay called "The Metaphysics of the Belly" and in various interviews. The purpose of Menenhetet's research, he tells Ramses IX, is "to enrich the marrow of our failing lands," a task reminiscent of the "great mission" that Mailer took up on behalf of his country in the 1950s: "to save the nerve of Being...
...institute's most prominent recent work has come in the field of disease prevention. Two notable projects in this area are a new procedure for transplanting bone marrow which does not require the marrow of a matched donor, and last spring's discovery of a relation between cancer and genetic changes in cells...
...bone marrow discovery could potentially help counteract auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis, researchers announced last week. The cancer gene discovery is still being researched, and will not be applied to cancer patients for many years. Other research projects currently underway at the institute include a study of sunlight's effect as a carcinogenic agent, and an inquiry into cell-growth control...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...
...Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have 3 million people in this country walking...