Already a cancer survivior Apple founder Steve Jobs is now being treated for a hormone imbalance that has
caused him to lose significant weight in recent month. Jobs, who is 53 said his thinness had been a mystery
even to him and his doctor until a few weeks ago. He said it was then the sophisticated blood test confirm
that he has a hormone imblance that has been robbing his body of necessary protein.
Job added that he has already started treatment, which is said to be relatively simple and straightforward.
Concern about Job's health intensified when Apple announced that Jobs would not deliver the keynote address
at Tuesday's session of the Macworld Conference in San Franciso. It was at the same Conference in 2007 that
Jobs introduced the I-Phone. However, Monday's news about Apple's CEO sent company's stocks soaring more
than four percent.
Job's health is important issue for Apple because of the company's decade-long success which Jobs has
presided over. It was in 2004 that Jobs announced he had undergone successful surgery to treat a rare form
of pancreatic cancer. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple back in 1976. Jobs left the company in
1985 only to return in 1997 for rescuing the company from financial ruin.
Brian Thomas, The Associated Press
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* imbalance : 〈의학〉 (근육·내분비선의) 불균형 상태
* sophisticated : 정밀한, 섬세한
* straightforward : 단순한, 솔직한, 정직한, 똑바른, 직접의
* intensify : 증대하다, ~을 증대하다
* deliver : 메시지를 전하다
: deliver[give, make] an address - 연설하다
* kenote address : 기조 연설(기본 취지나 정책·방향 등을 밝히는 연설)
: keynote - (정책 따위의) 기조, 기본 방침; (연설 따위의) 골자, 주안점, 요지
-〔정당 따위〕의 기본 방침을 발표하다; (연설 따위에서) …을 강조하다
* decade-long : 10년에 걸친, 10년 동안의
* preside over : 주인역을 맡다, 의장을 맡다, 사회를 보다, 주재하다, ~을 감독하다
* undergo surgery : 수술을 받다
: undergo - …을 받다, 겪다, 경험하다, …을 견디다, 참다.
* rare : 드문, 진기한, 희한한; 드물게 발생하는
* pancreatic : 췌장의
