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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, for the first time in their brief lives, Patrick and Benjamin Binder of Ulm, West Germany, lay in separate cribs. Benjamin rested next to his stuffed dog, Patrick with his teddy bear nearby. They had been parted during an operation of staggering complexity and delicacy -- five months in the planning, 22 hours in the execution, and involving 70 doctors, nurses and technicians. The procedure required draining all the blood from the boys' bodies and completely stopping their heartbeat. At week's end both were in critical but stable condition. Until the babies are roused from drug-induced comas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: An Hour When Life Stood Still | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...risks they face: blood clots, brain hemorrhaging, seizures and sweeping infection that, according to Rogers, "could kill them in 24 hours." Preliminary tests have shown that both boys can move all four limbs independently and are sensitive to pain. That, doctors noted, was a good omen: it signaled that Patrick's and Benjamin's nervous systems so far seemed intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: An Hour When Life Stood Still | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

After 22 hours of surgery, Siamese Twins Patrick and Benjamin Binder are separated. -- A Koop warning on AIDS and health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...right it sounded like the crack of doom for any effort to save Nicaragua from Communism. Some conservatives are also aghast at what they view as the Administration's headlong rush into a missile treaty with the Soviets, and in particular by its retreat from strict verification demands. Says Patrick Buchanan, once Reagan's communications director: "We are better off with 574 missiles that can land on the Soviet Union than we are with a damn treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Right-On for Reagan | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Until they invented the counterculture, teenagers of the early '60s like Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) had to make do with just culture. So she gets three weeks with her family at a resort in the Catskills. Bo-o-o-ring! Baby's only hope is that Johnny (Patrick Swayze), the lower-class hunk who teaches dancing, may notice her. In a picture that never makes a move the audience has not anticipated two scenes back, wish soon becomes reality. Johnny initiates Baby first into his erotically charged (if anachronistic) dance style, then into the joys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teenage Turmoil | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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