The title refers to a sensational news story that thrums away in the background of the novel: should conjoined teens Annabel and Amy risk an operation to separate so Annabel can sleep with her boyfriend?
However, the effect of attained age on radiation-related breast cancer risk is difficult to separate from that of age at exposure, even in a population such as the atomic bomb survivors for which exposure was to a general population of all ages and follow-up has been of long duration.
The composite risk score was able to separate a high-risk and a low-risk group with significantly different 90-day and 5-year survival.
We will never go back to that village; I do not want to take the risk to be separated from my family again!
Now I better understand why our forefathers risked their lives to separate themselves from Britain.Cary Alberstone Camarillo, California* Letter appears online only.
Large units for hog production frequently have many buildings, partly to reduce disease risks and partly to separate the various animals for example, the suckling sows, in-pig sows, fattening pigs, and boars.
Two sites mentioned that there was a small risk involved in obtaining a medical procedure, but were careful to separate that risk from any risks associated with traveling by reminding the patient that the same risk was involved with the medical procedure if done in the home country.
Consequently, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis of these different risk factors are difficult to separate from the events leading to cirrhosis.
We learned last week that regulators lowered their rating of Dimon's bank after chastising the bank's leadership for management failures that included inadequate safeguards against money-laundering, poor risk management, and failure to separate the banks' own investments from those of its customers.
The I.M.F. also called on Europe to take measures to separate bank risk from sovereign risk, including by making the European Stability Mechanism, the new euro zone bailout fund, able to move quickly to recapitalize banks.
