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Steve Jobs Admits Health Problem

In a public letter quite out of character for the usually private Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO says a hormone imbalance has caused protein deprivation that's led to his gaunt look, and he's taken steps to fix it. Jobs subscribes to an alternative medicine worldview and reportedly waited nine months before seeking an allopathic solution (relatively radical internal organ surgery) to his pancreatic cancer a few years ago. He wants us all to enjoy Macworld, he wrote, and so he revealed what he views as minor issue he wishes he could have kept to himself.

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