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Channeling Mark Twain, Steve Jobs Affirms His Good Health

Posted on September 09, 2008

Before we begin, I just wanted to mention this, Steve Jobs said this morning at the start of an Apple event in San Francisco, Fortune reports. Then this message flashed on the screen behind him:The old joke, courtesy of Mark Twain, was an allusion to an obituary that Bloomberg recently put out on the wire accidentally, before promptly retracting it.But the line also speaks to the speculation about Jobs s health that bubbled up earlier this year, when he was looking gaunt. He was successfully treated for pancreatic cancer a few years back (it was a rare form of the disease that s less...

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