Sublime

leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare and lethal infiltration that brought with it a prognosis of only several months and the looming shadow of swift neurologic decline.

a less equivocal drain on the nation’s resources and one which even lemon juice had failed to staunch.

One of these features, paradoxically, was that SARS-1 was actually too deadly. Epidemiologists quantify the lethality of pathogens in two primary ways. The infection fatality rate (IFR) is the probability a person will die if he or she gets infected. The case fatality rate (CFR) is the probability a person will die after being diagnosed with the co

In the Treasury market, following several consecutive days of deteriorating conditions, market participants reported an acute decline in market liquidity. A number of primary dealers found it especially difficult to make markets in off-the-run Treasury securities and reported that this segment of the market had ceased to function effectively. This

“The poison will act only to slow you, dull your senses and power. Much like his venom does. Once it takes effect, he’ll remove your head and limbs and burn the pieces on a pyre.” Envy rolled his eyes. “Pyres are so dull. Leave it to your prince to be so uninspired. Though I suppose he is still stuck in the Middle Ages.”

“Mercury is second only to plutonium in toxicity. When it first began to be used, centuries ago, nobody really knew its dangers. Mercury ointment was a treatment for the skin lesions of leprosy, beginning in the 1300’s.”