Unveiling Hidden Facts

  Doctors in Edinburgh have recently released the case history details of a man who claimed that he had not slept for 10 years. Since he traced his remarkable story of insomnia to a road accident that had knocked him unconscious for a moment, he was able to collect more than 12,000, or about $28,000, in seven years of litigation, and to stay out of work all the while on various disability pensions. This insomniac, accompanied by his wife, consulted numerous doctors from 1970 to 1980. He complained to them about his headaches, about the problems he had concentrating and walking and, of course, about his inability to sleep. But the prescriptions for sleeping pills did not help him, he said, and three weeks of physical examinations at the National Hospital found nothing telling. He took extensive psychological tests while there, too, but appeared to be normal in all respects. Finally, early last year, he and his wife spent four days and nights in a twin room at the sleep laborator

 Alternative title (separation of twins) Ben Carson, in full Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., (born September 18, 1951, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), American politician and neurosurgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins who were attached at the back of the head (occipital craniopagus twins). The operation, which took place in 1987, lasted some 22 hours and involved a 70-member surgical team. Carson also refined a technique known as hemispherectomy, in which one-half of the brain is removed to prevent seizures in persons with severe epilepsy. He later became active in politics and served as U.S. secretary of housing and urban development (HUD; 2017–21) in the administration of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump. Carson spent his early childhood in Detroit. His parents divorced when he was eight years old, and thereafter he lived with his mother and brother, spending a brief period in Boston and later returning to Detroit. Although Carson showed potential as a student, he p