1.   Doctors realized that the only hope would be surgery to separate the twins as soon as they were born.

2.   Doctors expect to separate the twins sometime in the next five weeks.

3.   Gallmeyer separated her twins from the start because Bill spoke for John.

4.   He said he emphatically agrees that twins should be separated.

5.   Identical twins can be more closely associated in the womb, lacking one or two membranes that separate fraternal twins.

6.   If the twins are separated, the doctors believe that Jodie, whose body contains the heart and lungs, will survive and have a normal life span.

7.   In interviews, a number of experts on twin behavior agreed that separating twins is harmful.

8.   It turns out that Navigator and Explorer were, in effect, twins separated at birth.

9.   Lally said there are some problems with healing the area where the twins were separated.

10.   Marathon operations to separate conjoined twins are fraught with danger, as the doctors who recently operated on Jodie and Mary in Manchester know only too well.