Word: conjoining
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...conversation gets more complicated, as information and ideology conjoin. If a woman is "abortion minded," Wilson says, "then we go over the medical risks--and there's research for this, even though the other side says there's not." She ticks off grim possibilities with fervor: "The research is that breast cancer is more prevalent. You have the rupture of the uterus. Infection is major. The risk of ectopic pregnancy is greater later on." It is this discussion of risk that most enrages defenders of abortion rights, especially doctors who routinely see terrified women who come in for an abortion...
...jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring in off the barges and trains that converged at this point, where the Ohio and the Mississippi conjoin. But the levees it erected to keep the floods out also hemmed Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself from its history by using it. The 1872 Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater...