Word: twinning
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...When the flames neared the dwelling of Sonya Graoso, a 44-year-old housewife, she tried to flee with her daughter and two-year-old twin granddaughters. A neighbor offered her a boat to get away?for a fee she couldn't afford. Another neighbor with a boat took pity on the family, but thieves stopped them and demanded loot. "My daughter had bought new shoes?the only pair she owns?last Christmas," says Graoso. "They were snatched from...
...U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, built atop the scarred hulk of the sunken warship. When he first conceived his master plan for the Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind intended to preserve the concrete containing walls, 70 ft. deep, that once held the underground foundations of the Twin Towers. Battered, fire-blasted but still standing, they told of both horror and strength. But to ensure their stability, new concrete now mostly covers over those walls...
...dorms are divided into "houses" of 10 to 14 students, which are named after universities, reflecting the school's emphasis on college preparation. Two students share each small room, which contains little more than twin beds, two desks and, for upperclassmen, desktop computers. The schedule is purposely intense. Each morning, after waking up at 5:45, the kids make their bed, get dressed in their uniform of khaki pants and white polo or Oxford shirt, then line up single file to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. The late-afternoon...
...hard to be against motherhood, but Japan, a country with a falling birthrate, may have found a way. When television variety-show host Aki Mukai and her husband, former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada, announced the birth of their twin boys last Tuesday, they drew fresh attention to the country's restrictive law surrounding surrogate mothers. Due to a 41-year-old Supreme Court ruling, Mukai, 39, can't be registered as the twins' biological mother, because the couple used a surrogate to give birth; to be recognized, she must legally adopt the twins...
...only thing everyone agrees on is that the fighting was exceptionally fierce, revealing a higher level of organization and coordination by the insurgents than had been seen before. The G.I.s drove into synchronized attacks on opposite ends of Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad, as twin U.S. convoys escorted trucks delivering new post-Saddam currency to two city banks. The Americans were on general alert, traveling with plenty of heavy armor...