Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mount St. Helens, is a favorite objective of amateur climbers. But the mountain has claimed the lives of at least 66 climbers since it was first conquered in 1870. Lou Whittaker, one of the organizers of last week's ill-fated expedition, is a veteran climber whose twin brother Jim was the first American to conquer Mount Everest...
...cocaine trade may be the most lucrative form of commerce in the world. Periodic glimpses of its staggering scale are afforded by headlines such as those in Wilmington, N.C., early this month. DEA and U.S. Customs officials swooped in on a twin-engine Cessna that made an unscheduled nighttime landing, arresting the pilot and a passenger and seizing their cargo of 440 lbs. of cocaine. The estimated wholesale value of the shipment: $16 million...
Renfrew, along with her twin sister Susan and her younger sister Judith had begun climbing the 4406-foot mountain early Tuesday on a tourist path, but Renfrew and her sisters became separated...
...Thomas Kerenyi at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center. The attempt was made in the 20th week of pregnancy, when the fetus weighs about 10 oz. and is about 10 in. long. A series of pictures taken during the earlier ultrasound scanning helped locate the abnormal twin, though not with certainty; Kerenyi put his chances at "much better than 50-50." Doctors then used sound waves to pinpoint the tiny beating heart. On their second attempt, they pierced the heart with a thin needle and withdrew about half the fetus' blood, causing the heart gradually to stop beating...
...pregnancy continued uneventfully. "The mother looked forward to the birth as a delightful event, and the other aspect didn't bother her," Kerenyi said. Fortnightly ultrasound scans showed the aborted fetus withering away while the live twin grew. Twenty weeks after the abortion, the woman went into labor. She delivered the dead fetus, by this time a paper-thin collection of cells, and a healthy...