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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Finally, an explanation for all those double-seated strollers. A new government study shows that twin births have increased 42 percent since 19980. The main reason? Fertility drugs. Twin rates were highest in Connecticut and Massachusetts, with a rate of 27.7 twin births per 1,000 births between 1992 and 1994, in large part because mothers there tend to give birth later in life, when twins are statistically more likely, and use fertility treatments...
...Boston Celtics have struggled to a dismal 11-34 record this season, including a league-worst 2-17 record away from the FleetCenter. Boston's best player is a twenty-year old rookie. Centers Frank Brickowski and Alton Lister are the Celtics twin Methusalehs, relics of some past age when players wore knee socks and sported afros...
...discovery of the CREB amplifier, more than any other, links the developmental processes that occur before birth to those that continue long after. For the twin processes of memory and learning in adult animals, Columbia University neurophysiologist Eric Kandel has shown, rely on the CREB molecule. When Kandel blocked the activity of CREB in giant snails, their brains changed in ways that suggested that they could still learn but could remember what they learned for only a short period of time. Without CREB, it seems, snails--and by extension, more developed animals like humans--can form no long-term memories...
Michelle N. Lipkowitz '97 and her twin sister, Jennifer L. Lipkowitz '97, were delayed at New York's LaGuardia Airport, waiting to board the USAir Shuttle...
...NATIONALE NEDERLANDEN BUILDING: A structure as playful as this deserves a nickname. And Frank Gehry and Croatian-born architect Vladimir Milunic's new building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings...