Or, was the trip to China for the purpose of helping fix the cleft palates of orphans?
Tomas has had corrective surgery on the cleft, but will require further checks on his speech and hearing.
Political fissures, especially the cleft between the coastal lowlands and the Andean highlands, have long denied Ecuador's governments legislative majorities, while squabbling among interest-groups has stymied attempts at economic reform.
Gareth Davies, Chief executive of the Cleft Lip and Palate Association, said past studies had indicated that taking folic acid may help prevent cleft lip and palate in so called "high risk" groups but until now there had been no conclusive evidence to back this up.
Wolfgang Bosbach, who also voted against the ESM, rejects comparisons to the tea party in America, which has cleft the Republican Party.
The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, that psychedelic cleft in the land that reduced Charles Cook to jaw-slackened silence, might more convincingly belong in another solar system.
The boulder, about five feet square, had a badly mended cleft in the middle.
After narrowly avoiding my unpleasant swim in the ice-cold Firth, I returned to my spot in that cleft in the rock.
But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.
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This tight cleft through the steepling old warehouses is clustered with bars that date back to the drunken sailor's heyday.
It prevents most West Bank Muslims from reaching the city's holy places and has cleft its Arab districts in two, leaving tens of thousands of Arab residents on the wrong side.
Vivus shares are taking a hit today on the news that the ingredient in Qnexa is associated with oral cleft defects.
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Sex Devil can afford the right kind of medical insurance to where his cleft palate can be surgically fixed.
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Children with SLOS have autism spectrum disorders and the most severely affected have birth defects, such as cleft palates, learning disabilities and heart defects.
In Guatemala (where Dave phoned me from for this interview) the company is setting up a clinic to help people who are born with cleft palates and who are partially deaf.
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There is a strong genetic link - a baby is 30-40 times more likely to develop cleft lip and palate if their elder brother or sister was also born with the condition.
One of the ingredients in Qsymia is topiramate, an anti-convulsant that has been linked to birth defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate in babies born to women who have taken it for migraines or seizures.
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