Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors successfully abort an abnormal twin...
...face the burden of caring for an abnormal child for the rest of her life." She would have chosen to abort both fetuses rather than continue the pregnancy to term had doctors not told her there was yet a third option: to try to abort only the abnormal twin...
While the six twin-engine F-15s provided a protective umbrella, the specially armed F-16s screamed into their bombing runs. The lead plane fired a pair of video-guided precision "smart" bombs, to punch through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through the jagged holes: a dozen conventional bombs weighing 2,200 Ibs. each. After a series of shattering roars, the roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy...
...personal problems, though, that leave men most at sea. At one meeting, a father of twelve-year-old twin daughters wanted to know what to tell them about premenstrual cramps. Most of the men know more about the inner workings of the space shuttle than about the women who used to share their bed and board. Someone suggested, seriously, that since there were training bras, perhaps the drugstore carried a "starter kit" for the menstrual cycle. (Single dads tend to have unusually intimate conversations with their women friends.) The group finally threw itself on the mercy of a college girl...
...almost a year, Poland's embattled Communist leaders have faced the twin threats of domestic social revolution and military invasion by the Soviet Union. Now another ominous specter looms: national bankruptcy...