The reality, according to Susan, was that he was slurring his speech, occasionally spitting out the words in her ear, in an effort to be heard above the night club music, and starting to go slightly boss-eyed with the drink.

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Lightning flashed again, the thunder came a second later. It rained harder. The smell of ozone was strong. You could feel the charge in the air.

We found that the effects of reactive astroglosis, demyelination and vasogenic edema may not be obvious in the post-irradiation acute phase, and resulting in initially no clear trend of either the QA or ISO R/L ratio in the all four different compartments.