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Zainab Jabbar 11, of Baghdad holds flower petals in the backyard of her temporary home in Clifton, where she and her mother are staying with a local family while she receives care for severe scoliosis, a debilitating curvature of the spine. In an X-ray, below right, taken two weeks after her second surgery, metal rods can be seen that are helping straighten Zainab's back. Herald News photo by, Kevin R. Wexler. Wednesday, June 13, 2007.