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  • Susceptible to fire and censorship and transcription errors, books are unreliable narrators; in their impermanence they throw up tantalizing possibilities.

    Will Books Survive? Raymond Zhong 2011

  • Susceptible animals will typically die in a few weeks of infection.

    African Livestock May Benefit From A Scientific Breakthrough In Fighting Tsetse Fly Parasite 2011

  • Susceptible persons are those eighteen months and older who have neither contracted the virus previously nor received the vaccination.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • Susceptible persons are those eighteen months and older who have neither contracted the virus previously nor received the vaccination.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • Susceptible to "there-there" cooing and the promise to protect them.

    Martin Lewis: A Beer For The Guys -- A Leech For The 911 Caller 2009

  • Susceptible people are known to get diarrhea from mannitol.

    Answers to Questions from Readers, part 6 Steve Carper 2007

  • Susceptible children are left in no doubt that we're all headed for a despoiled, immiserated future unless they start planting pansies in their old shoes, using dryer lint as mulch, and practicing periodic vegetarianism.

    Scary Green Monsters 2009

  • Susceptible birds become infected when they have contact with contaminated secretions or excretions or with surfaces that are contaminated with secretions or excretions from infected birds.

    Bird flu 2008

  • Susceptible patients should be sedated instead with intravenous drugs such as propofol, barbiturates and benzodiazapenes, and short-acting narcotics like fentanyl.

    A Fresh Focus 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Three E-Voting Systems Susceptible to Attack, California Team Finds'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The fact that, with incomplete information and limited time, reasonably skillful researchers were able to craft malware the overwrote the system firmware of three brands of voting machines, and compromise their servers as well, will not sit well with election reformers.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Three E-Voting Systems Susceptible to Attack, California Team Finds 2007

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