My hunch regarding an overestimate on the print run of 1945, would be the former Speaker of the House.
Posted this morning on Baen's Bar"
'My friend Jim Baen passed away peacefully and with dignity at 5 pm yesterday, June 28, 2006. --
Dave Drake'
No change as of today, according to Toni and Arnold.
While thalamic area strokes are extremely serious, Jim is through the critical week-to-ten days period without signs of decline. He's stable and getting very good care.
We can only continue to hope and pray for the best outcome, supporting the Baen family [in the broadest terms] through this trial.
Meredith, my cousin also has an auto-immune disorder of the flesh -- pyoderma gangrenosum -- for which thalidomide is prescribed.
She had a hysterectomy more than a decade before and still had to jump through all kinds of hoops to obtain it.
[And, yes, we jokingly refer to it as the curse of Job.]
JJB
Thalidomide is also a treatment for multiple myeloma.
As Ted Sturgeon once said, "There are very few absolute statements of fact." [Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.]
JJB
Appearances over risk assessment reigns.
This falls in the same general category as prosecuting cancer patients for use of medical marijuana instead of vigorously pursuing criminal growers, prosecuting digital artists [or grandparetns] for depicting nude children instead of child prostitution organizations, and prosecuting grandmothers whose grandkids' friends downloaded a few songs instead of pursuing Filipino mass CD/DVD piracy duplication operations.
As someone who's undergone sinus surgery, it's inane that I -- and tens of millions of other cold sufferers -- have to produce ID and sign a log in order to receive a monthly ration of pseudephedrin products because the US government can't go after illegal crystal meth manufacturers.
I empathize with you, Theresa, even if my common plight is a nuisance rather than life threatening.
JJB
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