Word: twinning
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...blinds and overhead fans. For a sharper rear view, check out The Wrong Man. Director Jim McBride (The Big Easy) and writers Roy Carlson and Michael Thoma have the inside word on noir. It isn't a look but a vision -- a bleak take on life and its evil twin, death...
...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...
...Wednesday doctors told the Lakebergs they would try to separate the pair. Though surgeon O'Neill would say that "there is a reasonable chance of success," he admitted that "if there is long-term survival, it would be unique." In fact, no conjoined twin with such a heart had lived beyond three months of separation...
When the operation finally began, a team of 18 doctors was on hand. First the surgeons divided the twins' liver. Then they began the daunting task of reconstructing the heart. Amy died about two-thirds of the way through the surgery. Mercifully, Reitha and Ken had been spared a Sophie's Choice of selecting which of their offspring would die. Doctors made the decision strictly on medical grounds -- which twin had the stronger chance...
...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...