Word: twin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good cholesterol" you hope will turn up in your blood test has that name for a reason. More properly known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL), it can prevent the damage done by its evil twin, low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The latter clogs blood vessels by combining with oxygen to form a substance that sets off alarms in the immune system. White blood cells rush to attack it, and the whole mess forms into sticky globs called plaques that cling to vessel walls like mineral deposits in a water pipe. When these deposits break off and blood clots around them...
Choreographers Claire Mallardi (Director of the Radcliffe Dance Program) and Tommy Neblett, with five talented artists to arrange, opt for a lot of tight motion and leggy prancing-which is fine, but doesn't always serve the words. The odes and the dance are twin hypnoses, and only one spell at a time can take hold. The collective decision to explore the possibilities of a lesbian subplot between a female Dionysus and her followers fares unexpectedly well. When the five dancers crouch close together, it reminds one of that Herb Ritts photo with all those supermodels...
...dull space in it. There are a few things in the design that seem arbitrary or merely rhetorical. The towering "parasol" that Gehry put over the river entrance is pointless except as a visual element--its roof is too high to give any protection from the weather. And the twin stone-veneer towers that rise downstream of the La Salve bridge are just a costly logo...
...Shrugging off the twin snubbings of Governor Pataki and Mayor Rudy, Jiang Zemin got right down to business at New York's real power center: the New York Stock Exchange. Flanked by NYSE Chairman and CEO Richard Grasso and NYSE President William Johnston, Jiang did the official ringing-in for Friday's session...
...convenience of regional jets--the 50-seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted that their members...