Word: twinning
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...faces 10 times those odds, and if both parents are affected, the likelihood jumps to 40%. But genes do not tell the whole story. Children of parents with schizophrenia raised by adoptive parents who don't have the illness have a somewhat reduced risk. In addition, if one identical twin has the disorder, the odds are just 50% that the other will. Clearly, environmental factors -- stress and possibly even a viral infection during infancy or gestation -- also may play a role in triggering the disease...
...sadder disappointment. The ABC comedy comes from David Lynch and Mark Frost, who shook up network TV with their brilliantly perverse soap opera Twin Peaks. This time the pair have come up with a sitcom about a ragtag TV network in the 1950s. Must have sounded great in the story conferences...
...have a dream (or is it a nightmare?). The year is 1996, and the Democrats, weary of the nonstop sniping from their twin 800-lb. gorillas, finally give in and nominate their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying...
...already crowded domain of Hawking lore is a rather successful merger of biography and physics. As it traces the course of Hawking's life, it pauses occasionally to prepare the reader for the mind- boggling complexities of relativity theory and the even more bizarre notions of quantum physics -- twin pillars on which Hawking has constructed his theories -- which he is currently attempting to unite in an all- encompassing theory. The authors characterize their early review of Newton's classical theory of gravitation, for example, as "a gentle workout in the foothills before we head for the dizzy heights...
Although Barrett does not flatly deny any higher aspirations, he says his family--his wife Nancy and twin daughters Hannah and Lily--will be important factors in deciding whether to seek another office...