Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard the impression, at least after one year, is quite different: Everyone expects a great deal, everyone is prepared to work hard and well, and everyone sets standards that at Minnesota were the measure of a happy few, generally students who had to be in the Twin Cities, who could not afford top schools or who found teachers and peers--as in the flagship units of the Liberal Arts, Political Science, Psychology and Economics Departments--who could mentor their work without flaw...
...news in the fight against AIDS is good, of course. Researchers have little more than a string of failures to report from the vaccine front. Early in the epidemic, they decided that it was too dangerous to follow the twin paths of traditional vaccine development--treatments based either on inactivated or weakened viruses. There is simply no way to guarantee that the viruses in a vaccine made of inactivated HIV will remain inactive. Similarly, any merely weakened strain of HIV might still overpower the human immune system. Because of the all too likely prospect that the resulting HIV vaccines would...
...evolution of the Kennedy myth after Dallas has set an American mood of moral disquiet and trompe l'oeil. Now you see it, now you don't. The shining story of Camelot has proceeded through the decades with an evil twin--the American tabloid version of the Kennedys, with Mafia molls and ruthless lusts and greeds: the gods as gangsters...
Places that previously served only green tea began serving Diet Coke's twin sibling. Unfortunately, nobody bought...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...