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                    [Title] => Decade on, separate lives for once-conjoined Filipino twins
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One twin uses an iPad, plays video games and dances to Michael Jackson tunes. The other has significant, possibly permanent, problems walking and talking.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-04 08:10:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390260 [AuthorName] => Jim Fitzgerald [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140804/Filipino-conjoined-twins-10-years-later.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298799 [Title] => Former conjoined boy starts walking [Summary] => WHITE PLAINS (AP) — Clarence Aguirre, one of the conjoined Filipino twins who survived a long series of delicate surgeries to separate him from his brother, Carl, has begun walking, Montefiore Medical Center officials said.

Carl is expected to follow in his brother’s footsteps soon.

Montefiore spokesman Steve Osborne confirmed Sunday that Clarence had begun walking on his own after "Dateline NBC" showed images of the three-year-old, wearing a helmet, taking steps at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289317 [Title] => A year after separation, formerly conjoined Pinoy boys seem reborn [Summary] => VALHALLA, New York (AP) — One year after a neurosurgeon separated them by cutting through a section of brain, Carl Aguirre says "Wow!" as he whizzes a toy truck off the tray of his high chair and his brother Clarence holds his nose to let his mother know his diaper is dirty.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275001 [Title] => Former conjoined twins celebrate third birthday [Summary] => WASHINGTON — Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre celebrated their third birthdays yesterday at the Blythedale Children’s Hospital in New York, fighting over frosting and balloons and delighting in a very messy, chocolate cream-filled Sesame Street cake, doctors who attended the party said.

It was their first birthday celebration as separate individuals after the boys, who were born joined at the tops of their heads, were separated last August in a surgery at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center (CHAM), also in New York.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267709 [Title] => 2004 the year that was [Summary] => JThe flooding and landslide tragedy in the north was just one of the trials that tested the Filipinos’ resilience in 2004.

Nearly every kind of bad news seemed to have been crammed into the past 365 days. It was a year when nature’s wrath was seen at its mightiest and when man’s folly tested the government’s stand on the war on terror. It was a year of political and economic instability and of the passing away of icons.
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                    [Title] => Decade on, separate lives for once-conjoined Filipino twins
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One twin uses an iPad, plays video games and dances to Michael Jackson tunes. The other has significant, possibly permanent, problems walking and talking.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-04 08:10:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390260 [AuthorName] => Jim Fitzgerald [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140804/Filipino-conjoined-twins-10-years-later.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298799 [Title] => Former conjoined boy starts walking [Summary] => WHITE PLAINS (AP) — Clarence Aguirre, one of the conjoined Filipino twins who survived a long series of delicate surgeries to separate him from his brother, Carl, has begun walking, Montefiore Medical Center officials said.

Carl is expected to follow in his brother’s footsteps soon.

Montefiore spokesman Steve Osborne confirmed Sunday that Clarence had begun walking on his own after "Dateline NBC" showed images of the three-year-old, wearing a helmet, taking steps at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla.
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[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275001 [Title] => Former conjoined twins celebrate third birthday [Summary] => WASHINGTON — Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre celebrated their third birthdays yesterday at the Blythedale Children’s Hospital in New York, fighting over frosting and balloons and delighting in a very messy, chocolate cream-filled Sesame Street cake, doctors who attended the party said.

It was their first birthday celebration as separate individuals after the boys, who were born joined at the tops of their heads, were separated last August in a surgery at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center (CHAM), also in New York.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267709 [Title] => 2004 the year that was [Summary] => JThe flooding and landslide tragedy in the north was just one of the trials that tested the Filipinos’ resilience in 2004.

Nearly every kind of bad news seemed to have been crammed into the past 365 days. It was a year when nature’s wrath was seen at its mightiest and when man’s folly tested the government’s stand on the war on terror. It was a year of political and economic instability and of the passing away of icons.
[DatePublished] => 2005-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1127935 [AuthorName] => Ann Corvera [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) ) )
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