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Pregnancy significantly increased the odds of having a stroke.
“What are you telling me?” David’s enthusiastic gaze didn’t waver. “Without extensive, long-term clinical trials, I can’t be definitive. But at this point, and by all indications, we believe we can arrest human aging with two shots of Eos a year.” “What!” “People won’t age a day after their first injection.”
Pierce had visibly run half the range of human emotions in the span of a few seconds.
With just one billion dollars in the bank, a person could spend a thousand an hour for a hundred years and still have a fortune left over.
After a protracted pause that grew more uncomfortable by the second, the last two relented. Most likely out of solidarity rather than consensus.
“Some of us need to risk dying in order to feel like we’re living.”
He loved vacations as much as the next guy, but largely for the contrast. If you didn’t have black to make the most of the white, everything was gray.
“While most people enjoy a good hamburger, few want to pet the cow.”
Apparently waving five million dollars under someone’s nose worked better than an ammonia ampule.