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...Some experts believe that France's President may be suffering from multiple myeloma, a debilitating disease of the bone marrow. His puffy features are probably a side effect of cortisone treatments...
...days under John D. 'Rockefeller, it was a ruthless monopoly. Rockefeller opened a refinery in Cleveland in 1863, combined it with several others under the name Standard Oil in 1870, and set up the Standard Oil Trust in 1882. Standard Oil bribed many politicians and cut prices to the marrow in order to drive out competitors. One of John D.'s favorite techniques was to negotiate secret rebates from railroads, which were eager to carry Standard's petroleum; he handed them so much business that they frequently gave him kickbacks on the shipments of rival firms as well. He then...
...Elysee, which brusquely turns away all queries. Unofficially, however, spokesmen claim that he suffers from painful arthritis and that his puffy appearance is the result of massive doses of cortisone. Others outside the government speculate, however, that the real malady may be multiple myeloma, a disease of the bone marrow that can also be treated with cortisone...
NASA doctors now know that the loss does not result from a destruction of red blood cells but from a shutdown of production facilities in the bone marrow. Upon returning to gravity, the body requires one to five weeks to start up production again. "Medically," says NASA Flight Surgeon Charles Ross, "that is one for the sleuths...
This also reveals why Storey is a stage animal down to his bones and marrow. In any satisfactory theatrical experience, any single member of an audience feels a communion of spirit with those around him. That is how audience emotion builds so that the entire theater seems to erupt with laughter or stills to a rapt, absolute hush...