Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best-selling The Beet Queen. "For Louise, Companion through every page, through every day. Compeer," read the dedication in Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. In 1991 they even collaborated on a novel, Crown of Columbus. That book, too, became a best seller. "They were like a twin star system," says a friend, author Martin Cruz Smith. "I can't think of another pair of writers who work like that." Another good friend, Ruth Coughlin, almost breathless at the memory of seeing the couple on the dance floor, went even further, recalling the pair as "Scott and Zelda without...
Albers was a perfect three-for-three in game one of the twin billing with a double, a home run and five RBI. The senior captain has started off the season "en fuego" at the plate batting .448 (including three doubles, a triple and a round tripper) while driving in nine runs and scoring seven more...
...professor's son who told his mother he could not see himself fitting in with traditional society, and felt at home with Heaven's Gate? Or the mother from Cincinatti, who spotted Applewhite's writings on the Internet and felt compelled to leave her three boys and newborn twin girls to join the group? For their sake, if not for all 39 of the dead, we should stifle a bit of our condescension and maintain the humility that should infuse any discussion of faith...
...infant twin boys when, in 1963, his penis was damaged beyond repair by a circumcision that went awry. After seeking expert advice at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the parents decided that the child's best shot at a normal life was as an anatomically correct woman. The baby was castrated, and surgeons fashioned a kind of vagina out of the remaining tissue. When "she" grew older, hormone treatments would complete the transformation from boy to girl...
Inferiority is a big public issue here at the moment: the Minnesota legislature is debating whether to build a stadium for the Minnesota Twins, who might skip town if they don't get one, and where would that leave us? Back in the minor leagues, that's where. No different from Des Moines or Omaha. The Governor, who favors the stadium, recently told the people of Minnesota, who do not, that without major league sports the Twin Cities would be like Des Moines, "absolutely dead," which caused some consternation in Iowa and not much in Minnesota, where the fear...