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Larry Page's Vocal Cords Are Partially Paralyzed

theodp writes "Last summer, unspecified voice problems caused Google CEO Larry Page to miss Google's Annual Shareholder Meeting, the I/O conference, and a quarterly earnings call. Now, Page has come forward and revealed that he suffers from partial paralysis of each of his vocal chords, an 'extremely rare' condition. Not unlike what Sergey Brin and his wife are doing with Parkinson's research, Page and his wife will be funding and overseeing 'a significant research program' led by Dr. Steven Zeitels of Harvard Medical School."

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  1. I'm tellin ya... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We go out and get those top 10 richest people on the planet... You know the ones that own 60% of the world and all the stuff in it...

    Infect them with aids.. Give them all cancer. Heck a whole bunch of diseases.. Toss in the flu and common cold.

    We'll have cures for all of it by the end of the year.

    It's time we start exploiting a valuable resource. Rich people.

    We're not currently using them for anything but placeholders...

  2. Re:And what do we learn from this ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...A very complex and wonderful piece of engineering, way above the complexity that we understand...

    You're talking about perl here, right?

  3. Some advice. by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't yell as much at your employees, throw a chair once in a while.

  4. Speak No Evil? by Bob_Who · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just couldn't resist....