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...surprise, a summation of his discoveries published in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly has set off a firestorm. It's not news that J.F.K. was in poor health much of the time, but Dallek paints the fullest and most unnerving picture yet of a President in constant pain from degenerative bone disease and heavily medicated. It raises the obvious question of whether voters should have known more about the health of a man who Dallek says often could barely climb a flight of stairs and could not put on his own socks. Dallek describes X rays showing that...
...When I read about the hospitalizations, my eyes widened," says Dallek. "We never knew about this." Another revelation was the sheer quantity of medications Kennedy took daily during his presidency. "Steroids for his Addison's disease," Dallek writes, "pain-killers for his back, antispasmodics for his colitis, antibiotics for urinary-tract infections, antihistamines for allergies and, on at least one occasion, an antipsychotic (though only for two days) for a severe mood change that Jackie Kennedy believed had been brought on by the antihistamines." Johnny, we hardly knew...
Dallek says that seeing Kennedy's medical records gave him greater respect for the President's courage in conducting his presidency in the face of daily pain. But he also writes that Kennedy should have let voters know in 1960 just how sick he was. If what he found was a profile in courage, it's a profile in bad faith...
Aside from a couple of political rants, these two-and three-minute bursts of verse mostly look inward: at the pain of love, the poignance of failed dreams, the lure of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. An abused woman exhorts herself to "hit like a man." An Asian American celebrates his ethnic group: "We are programming your websites, making your executives look smart." There's the fable of Shine, a stoker on the Titanic who "jumped his black ass into the dark sea" and cheerfully swam home while the rich folks drowned. And a cry against the exploitative record industry...
...most common side effect of the prototype vaccine has been a little bit of muscle pain at the injection site. The inoculum was designed so that it cannot cause an HPV infection, even accidentally. It contains only proteins from the virus' outer shell and no genetic material that can lead to disease...