Science & Technology, Honorable mention
Valery Khristoforov
ITAR-TASS
ITAR-TASS
01 May, 1983
After an operation at the All-Union Research Surgery Centre, in which surgeon Ramaz Datiashvili reattached Rasa's feet to her legs, Rasa (3) walks again. She had had an accident while playing and both of her feet had been cut off by a mowing machine.
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