Word: twin
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...Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned by Issey Miyake...
This less-is-more stance has placed heavy physical and emotional strains on those workers fortunate enough to keep their jobs. Though both the length of the average workweek and the number of overtime hours dipped a bit in June, the twin indicators of how long and hard people work had reached record levels in recent months. At the same time, the financial rewards of work have continued to dwindle. When adjusted for inflation, the average hourly wage of U.S. workers stands 14% lower than in 1979. And male college graduates who were just beginning their careers earned 5.1% less...
...faces 10 times those odds, and if both parents are affected, the likelihood jumps to 40%. But genes do not tell the whole story. Children of parents with schizophrenia raised by adoptive parents who don't have the illness have a somewhat reduced risk. In addition, if one identical twin has the disorder, the odds are just 50% that the other will. Clearly, environmental factors -- stress and possibly even a viral infection during infancy or gestation -- also may play a role in triggering the disease...
...sadder disappointment. The ABC comedy comes from David Lynch and Mark Frost, who shook up network TV with their brilliantly perverse soap opera Twin Peaks. This time the pair have come up with a sitcom about a ragtag TV network in the 1950s. Must have sounded great in the story conferences...
...have a dream (or is it a nightmare?). The year is 1996, and the Democrats, weary of the nonstop sniping from their twin 800-lb. gorillas, finally give in and nominate their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying...