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According to a study published in the Mar. 28 issue of Human Genetics, two sperm fertilized one egg and created the twins. The phenomenon occurs in about 1% of the population, but most embryos created in this way - called triploids because they have three sets of chromosomes - do not live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind of Twin | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

The child was known at the orphanage as Pham Quang Sang. Pham is a fairly common family name in Vietnam; the second two given names together mean "bright light." No one at the orphanage seemed to know for sure - the name was on his file when he arrived at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tale of Angelina's New Son | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

Bourne has a special talent for narrative clarity: you can always follow one of his stories, even if you don't know the original. That's a must for Edward Scissorhands , the tale of a boy stitched together in a forbidding castle by a lonely inventor who dies, leaving his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edward Scissordance | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

The writing in webcomics is different too--it's bizarre and wildly inventive in a way that's reminiscent of early print pioneers like Krazy Cat and Little Nemo in Slumberland. One of the most ambitiously literary--though still bracingly, crudely hilarious--comics on the Web is called Achewood. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zip for the Old Strip | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

A hedonistic groundhog day" is how director Justin Way describes Handel's 1735 opera Alcina, and a week from the opening of Way's new production for Opera Australia, Ariosto's epic tale of a sorceress who casts a succession of spellbound lovers into stone is undergoing its own seemingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talent Celestial | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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