quote: The family of two-year-old conjoined twins have been celebrating a successful operation to separate them. Surgeons worked for over 30 hours to divide the heads of Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim from Egypt, teasing apart a complex network of blood vessels.
"When somebody came up and said 'We have two boys', the father Ibrahim jumped to my neck and he hugged me and he fainted," said the twins' Egyptian doctor Nasser Abdelal.
Can you spot what's missing?
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Actually, the rest of the article is about the other separation, the one in Italy; and about twin separations in general.
Nowhere in the article does it mention WHERE this first separation occurred. Or the organizations that paid for it.
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Sorry Rivka! I guessed Tel Aviv and looked stupid so I deleted. I throw myself on the mercy of the thread author. Posts: 327 | Registered: Oct 2003
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Funny, someone on BBC must have noticed what was missing too. Because now they have almost the same article with the fact that the operation was performed by US surgeons prominently mentioned.
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Huh-- on CNN yesterday, they were reporting that the operation was being paid for by the Kuwaiti government.
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Well, the World Craniofacial Foundation paid to bring the twins to Dallas. And:
quote: Doctors and nurses contributed their time and local charities raised a 125,000 dollar payment to Children's Medical Center for use of its facilities.
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I'm partial to this comment for some reason or another...
quote: "The mother on the other hand was crying like everybody else. She was there thanking everybody around and thanking her faith that brought her to this great place — Dallas, Texas."
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