Word: twinning
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...Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peņa), and their survival story is true (this is not a suspense movie; it's a study in terror). They are Port Authority policemen, part of an instant-response unit, who were in the concourse of the World Trade Center when the Twin Towers crashed down around them on 9/11. They have nothing to do but wait, in enormous pain, for a rescue that, considering the magnitude of the destruction, seems virtually impossible, which it was--only 20 survivors were pulled out of the rubble...
...should be proud, then, that while ground zero is still being rebuilt, pop culture emerged with barely a dent. In the fifth year after 9/11, it's revisiting the attacks head-on. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (see review, next page) digs into the rubble of the Twin Towers, telling the story of two police officers who were among the last survivors to be pulled out. United 93 grossed about $43 million worldwide, a respectable sum for a $15 million movie about the passengers who brought down a plane before hijackers could crash it. In January the cable movie...
SURRENDERED. Johnny Htoo, left, child soldier who, along with twin brother Luther, led a band of ethnic Karen rebels known as God's Army against Burma's military junta in the late 1990s; in southern Burma. Htoo, believed to be about 18 years old today, turned himself in to government forces along with eight fellow rebels earlier this month, according to reports. The brothers, revered by followers who believed they had mystic powers and could not be hurt by bullets or land mines, fled to a Thai refugee camp in 2001, where Luther reportedly still lives with his wife...
...seeing double. Lech Kaczynski, far left, is the President of Poland, and he recently chose his twin brother Jaroslaw to serve as Prime Minister. Critics cried nepotism. But naming relatives to positions of power isn't new--and in monarchies, it can be automatic. Even in lands without emperors or kings, though, there's a long history of keeping the power in the family. Here are a few examples...
...shuffling to turn a radiology waiting room into a maternity ward, an MRI scanner space into a recovery room and a heart catheterization laboratory into a neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses there are working furiously to keep a 600 gm. baby girl alive, along with 1.2 kg. twin boys...