Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience at the Key theater in Georgetown were veterans of the campaign, and half of those were on-screen. Paul Begala, James Carville's partner, wiped away a tear as he watched the scene in which he is a voice speaking from the campaign plane to his spiritual twin on the ground in Little Rock, Arkansas, George Stephanopoulos, the day before the vote. "Paulie," Stephanopoulos says in his power whisper, "I got up this morning and driving in I started to cry ... If we lose this, we'll have to jump off a bridge ... or drink some Kool...
Unfortunately for would-be philosophers, none of these are questions not already raised by the existence of identical twins. Twins coexists peacefully without losing their identities or going insane. Cloning would only replicate a situation that already exists. One wonders what the protester photographed in Time with the sign "I Like Just One of Me" would have done if she had been born an identical twin...
...consider cloning an embryo they had conceived; 90% said no. That, more than any law that could be put on the books, would prevent the practice from becoming common. Rather than asking, as Time and Newsweek did, "What if this technology allowed someone to give birth to her own twin?", we should ask, "Would anyone actually want to do such a thing...
After the success of 1987, one wonders how ateam goes 2-8--like it did in 1988. Theseason began well enough, with the Crimsondefeating Columbia 41-7. (Of course, some Pee-Weeteams could defeat Columbia 41-7.) Harvard didn'twin another game until Brown came up to TheStadium for the annual Thank God for Bad Teams orElse Our Record Would Really Be Bad Game, whichHarvard won easily...
...That's 24 hours a day, seven days a week.) "I've got an AK on the way, and that's real, you know? I've got a TEC-9. I got a little chrome .32 and a .380. I'm gonna get some more Glocks, I want some twin Glocks." Half a dozen armed friends keep Spice safe from "player-haters," who he says try to bring down successful rappers. "Six guns coming out is gonna get us out of there, wherever...