11.   Now my previous experience separating conjoined twins in South Africa had not been pleasant.

12.   One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them.

13.   Separating conjoined twins remains a rare procedure.

14.   Separating Siamese twins is always a difficult and risky undertaking.

15.   The judge agreed with Taylor that, legally, it would be a crime for surgeons to use a scalpel to separate the twins.

16.   A judge previously ruled that the twins should be separated to give the strong one a chance at a normal life.

17.   Anderson also argued that permitting an operation to separate the twins -- knowing that Mary would die as a result -- would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

18.   Doctors will decide in three months whether to surgically separate Siamese twins born in Suriname last year, a hospital medical director said.

19.   Doctors aborted their first attempt at separating the twins in December.

20.   Doctors say it is impossible to separate twins who share a heart.