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According to the committee, however, the testing procedure ensures a very low rate of false-positives. In this procedure, blood is tested for antibodies. If the results are positive, the same blood specimen is tested again. If positive for a second time, doctors perform a "very sensitive" PCR amplification test, McCormick said...
...very up and down performance," Rosen said. "We did not perform as well as we hoped...
...Overall we sailed well this weekend," Strothman said. "Although we didn't perform as well as hoped, we overcame adversity and took a positive experience away from the tournaments...
Still, surgeons who perform radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak...
This responsibility is required of Ray, and it is his struggle that defines both his character and the film. Fortunately, he is helped in this struggle by Lauren Bell (played by Sonja Sohn, also a novice at film). A prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love...