Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids in the audience seemed to prefer the brightly hued and wildly imaginative entries in the aesthetic design and aerobatics events. There were butterflies, dragonflies, bats, flying Supermen and airborne pineapples, as well as F-14 scale models, Star Wars fighters and twin-rotor helicopters. Curtis Haynie, 8, of Hood River, Ore., said his favorite was the slime-green "Flying Lizard," which, according to handling instructions written by its owner, should be fed "small rodents, twice daily." Contest sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs...
Since it suffered the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history in 1979, the Three Mile Island generating plant has become a symbol of the dangers of using atomic fuel to produce electricity. The twin reactors at the Pennsylvania site have remained shut since the disastrous near meltdown of Unit 2. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a 4-to-1 vote, ruled last week that the GPU Nuclear Corp., which runs Three Mile Island, could reopen the undamaged Unit 1, which had no part in the accident...
...behavior of the next generation of Truebas is scarcely more sensible. Nicolas' twin Jaime is famous for literally giving his shirt away at the sight of a needy person. On one occasion he charitably removes his trousers in a public plaza, causing bystanders to cheer. Sister Blanca is regarded as the only normal member of the family because she shows "not the slightest inclination for her mother's spiritualism or her father's fits of rage." Still, she is the first among the clan's women to bed down outside her class...
Welcome to the great American two-career family and pass the aspirin, please. Dual paychecks, the norm in U.S. marriages today, may provide a better standard of living, but for a large number of couples they also contribute to twin headaches. Many family counselors say their practices are now largely devoted to couples who cannot reconcile three often conflicting demands: his job, her job and their relationship. Says Patricia Kennedy, a psychologist in New York: "Marriage, or even living together, has become every bit as much a business merger as it is an emotional commitment." Says Donald Bloch, director...
...himself among the sophisticates of the Northeast. The journey from Pocock, Ill., to Decency, Conn., has been played forward, backward and sideways, sometimes strictly for laughs and often, as in The Blood of the Lamb, to illustrate that comedy is not the opposite of tragedy but its Siamese twin...