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Conjoined twins are rare, occurring once in 50,000 to 100,000 births. They happen when the fertilized egg starts splitting into twins but the process stalls, leaving a partly separated embryo that matures into a conjoined fetus. Many are aborted or stillborn. Surgical separations often fail, depending on how many organs are shared. At a leading U.S. center for this work, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 14 sets of twins have been separated since 1957. Seventeen children survived, and both twins lived in seven cases...
...stoke hope along with the hype--be a mini-Matrix. But it doesn't work. David Aaron Cohen's script charts a familiar journey into oneself (Dorff is an implosive Luke Skywalker), and even with a final kiss that detonates a supernova of special effects, the movie remains stubbornly stillborn, emotionally unwired...
...begun. Then came the collapse of Japan's bubble, followed by the currency crunch along the entire Pacific Rim. While Asia, stunned, watched from a distance, the Internet-driven New Economy mushroomed in the West. For a while, it seemed as if the long-predicted Pacific Century might be stillborn--or stolen altogether...
Microsoft likes to say its hypercompetitive business practices hurt rivals, not consumers. But Jackson found that Microsoft was so quick to crush any perceived threats that countless technology products that should have been developed died stillborn. "The ultimate result," he wrote, "is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest." Even more devastating, Jackson found that in its rush to make life tough for its competitors, Microsoft was actually willing to diminish the quality of its own products. Bundling a Web browser into Windows...
...Kommunity, has paid 61 women to follow her program: 44 had their tubes tied; the remainder took time-release birth-control drugs. Before they signed up, Harris says, the women acknowledged having experienced a total of 446 pregnancies, of which 169 were aborted. Twenty-three of their children were stillborn, 22 died later, and 185 were placed in foster care...