Carefully, to avoid injuring her, I rub cream into the yellow skin, which rolls freely over the bones, feeling perfectly the outline of each bone in the back.

Yellow marrow is found in the large cavities of large bones and consists mostly of fat cells and a few primitive blood cells.

Putin wore heavy makeup at a meeting Wednesday with Ukraine's pro-Russian leadership, but yellow foundation could barely cover up bluish, bruise-like blemishes and puffiness on his cheek bones.