This work has provided evidence that for men aged 40-59 at baseline, around 75% of the between-town variation in 5-, 10-, and 15-year incidence of coronary heart disease can be explained by smoking, systolic blood pressure, exercise, social class, and height [ 18].
So this week the town began a variation of an old-time barn raising: volunteers are working to dig about 20 miles of underground pipeline to connect with a water system in the nearby town of Elbert before time, and water, run out.
The Christmas holidays have arrived and schoolteacher John Grant farewells his class in the small outback town of Tiboonda ("a variation of hell").
As the three-day cycle progresses, the theme song of Clock Town changes between three variations, one for each day.
For anyone who thinks that northern seaside towns are all variations on a theme of Blackpool, Scarborough will come as a surprise.
My ingenue, Mary Ann Singleton, was a not-so-subtle variation on "single town".
But the overarching idea left behind by "The Hill Town Plays" remains a dark variation on a familiar truism: No matter how far from home you may stray, in some sense you take it with you wherever you go.
A variation of the town's name (parati) was once a common synonym for "a very good sugar cane rum" – so be sure to try some of the local cachaça from one of the town's seven distilleries, or visit in August during the Festival da Cachaça (also called the Festival da Pinga), where local stills offer tastings and bands provide entertainment.
Blood pressure measurements at both time points were adjusted for observer variation within each town [21].
In a variation of the town-meeting theme, more than 500 "house parties" will be held simultaneously at the homes of her supporters across the state, followed by a driving tour.
Richard Prothero points to the colossal variation between different seaside towns, sometimes near to each other.
