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...youthful, button-down conformity, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 21, seems cut from different cloth. After his leg was amputated in 1973 because of bone cancer, he was walking within days. In the years since, he has pursued his passions for squash, touch football, skating and waterskiing. And last week, at Mount Sunapee, N.H., he took a first place in the New England Regional Handicapped Ski Championship. With his proud father looking on, Kennedy beat a field of 25 men, thereby earning a spot at the National Championships this month in Squaw Valley, Calif...
...September 14, 1972-February 28, 1983): Last night saw the death of an old friend, a mainstay of America's popular culture. M*A*S*H offered us a funny bone in the skeleton of the Korean War for 11 years, nearly four times the length of the actual...
...inevitable excisions. "The worst thing we can do is dig in our heels," warned Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana. But Weinberger's rigidity was reinforced by the President himself, who dispatched a statement to his beleaguered Defense Secretary advising him to tell Congress that "we have reached the bone and that any further cuts would do severe damage to our national security." Republican leaders were forced to come up with their own suggestions. Warner proposed reducing the size of the armed forces by up to 7%. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico argued that military spending...
...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...