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PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Objectives Educational opportunities for African-Americans expanded throughout the 20 th century. Twin pairs are an informative population in which to examine changes in educational attainment because each twin has the same parents and childhood socioeconomic status. We hypothesized that correlation in educational attainment of older twin pairs would be higher compared to...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - AMR Corp's American Airlines operated jets later found to have substandard repairs, and federal regulators are probing allegations that at least one plane was considered unsafe to fly at normal cruise altitude, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
On Tuesday, the U.S. was helped when Finland's Saija Sirvio and Emma Laaksonen were penalized inside three seconds in the first period. Monique Lamoreux, one of two American twins, scored on a five-on-three situation.
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Zada News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
“Boondock Saints” was a ridiculously over-the-top action film about a pair of Irish-American twins who set out with guns and some reckless and boozy bravado to rid Boston of criminals and mafia. [1] “Boondock Saints,” the 1999 film that achieved cult status on DVD and has now spawned a sequel, certainly had plenty of flaws. [2] In [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
American twins who sued the founder of Facebook are named as part of the 2010 Oxford Boat Race squad.
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Nihon Sumo Kyokai — the Japanese Sumo Association — recently announced it is once again considering an overseas jaunt. Destination this time? Sin City — Las Vegas, Nevada. Again! Exactly why the sumo association has again opted for an American city to host one of their all too rare overseas tours is a mystery.
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let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... Adams , that she began to guide tours herself! Her Fearful Symmetry is a ghost story about two American twins who inherit their Aunt Elspeth's London flat next door to Highgate and discover that their dearly departed aunt has never left. Niffenegger describes her strategy for writing characters and reveals her fear that the art of book design may be declining. Goodreads : When did...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Elspeth, our heroine, dies in the first sentence of Her Fearful Symmetry. She hovers above her body and moves on, reappearing as a bored revenant in her own flat next to Highgate Cemetery, stuck in the "spiritual equivalent of house-arrest". Becoming increasingly powerful, she begins to haunt her heirs, the young American twin daughters of her own twin sister. The stage...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... they must live in it for a year and their parents must never enter. And so the pretty, young American twins are transplanted into this eccentric new world. Gradually they meet the other characters who inhabit their building: Martin an obsessive compulsive so crippled by his mental illness that he cannot leave his apartment and Robert who is paralysed by grief for his dead lover Elspeth...
