However, it is a good sign that the node does not bother him and that he has not been sick and that the tests that were done were all normal.

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He has been off on sick leave since December.

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Has he been sick at all?

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So Russian folk-wisdom advises, and so Boris Yeltsin has been doing in the days since he rose from his sick bed to resume a semblance of work.

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"He's going back to see his wife, who has been over in Australia nursing her sick mother, " said Robinson.

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