Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lakebergs' time of hard choices began just before Christmas. About 13 weeks into Reitha's pregnancy, the Wheatfield, Indiana, couple learned through an ultrasound test that she was carrying Siamese, or conjoined, twins. Such cases are rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...
...messy tangle of societal ills. "We have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
...anatomies between straight and gay men, acknowledges that the brains he studied were of AIDS victims, and thus he cannot be sure that what he saw was . genetic rather than the result of disease or some aspect of gay life. Says LeVay: "This new work and the studies of twins are two lines of evidence pointing in the same direction. But the DNA evidence is much stronger than the twin studies." Dr. Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and co-author of some twin studies -- showing that identical twins of gay men have...
...model prisoner at the Twin Rivers Corrections Center, with two exceptions: first, he opted out of a program for sex offenders -- since he would not be in jail long enough to complete it. More alarming was the art he drew in his cell -- "pornographic pictures of children," says Janet Barbour, Twin Rivers superintendent, "and pictures showing violence being done to children...
...head of Texans United for Life, is boycotting the current Dallas campaign, citing incidents including a case in which a Rescue member allegedly made a bomb threat to a Dallas clinic from a phone in New Jersey. "These are the tactics of the Mafia," says Price. Earlier this year, Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Roach urged militant antiabortion groups to avoid his area. "I do not find Operation Rescue to be a positive element in the pro-life movement," he said, "and I just wish they'd stay wherever they are." Operation Rescue ignored his plea. This week the group...