Word: fatalities
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...then he made a fatal mistake. He decided to give Ardman epinephrine, a drug that would certainly raise the patient's blood pressure but that, in combination with the dopamine Ardman had already received, would also spike his heart rate and possibly kill him. Sure enough, after epinephrine was administered, the patient lost consciousness and drifted toward death - although just before he died, the simulation ended...
...near-fatal shooting of East Timor President José Ramos-Horta on Feb. 11 shocked average East Timorese as well as the foreign governments that midwifed the birth of the new nation. Ramos-Horta needed eight liters of blood to stabilize his condition before being airlifted to a hospital in Darwin, Australia, where he is in serious, but stable, condition...
...seems, not on account of the efflorescence of our studies but on account of the upward slope of our trend lines. Immeasurable qualities are no longer important; in a quantified world, a given quality’s inability to cram into the cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And now the culture of quantification has leached down to the practice of everyday learning, with the exploding popularity of several new student-made web tools that offer a searchable directory of courses by their scores on the Q evaluation index. These web tools distort an already skewed view...
...forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness...
Pring-Wilson was a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in 2003 when he stabbed Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono in a fatal chance encounter...