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Daily Checkup for Sunday, Dec. 29: Women’s global health

Daily Checkup for Sunday, Dec. 29: Women’s global health

THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Taraneh Shirazian The director of global women’s health at Mount Sinai, Taraneh Shirazian is a minimally-invasive gynecologic surgeon who specializes in problems like fibroids, endometriosis and pelvic pain. She also runs a nonprofit, Saving Mothers, that provides education and training for local health-care providers around the world. WHO’S AT RISK Although on average women worldwide live four ...

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Daily Checkup for Sunday, Dec. 29: Women’s global health

Daily Checkup for Sunday, Dec. 29: Women’s global health

THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Taraneh Shirazian The director of global women’s health at Mount Sinai, Taraneh Shirazian is a minimally-invasive gynecologic surgeon who specializes in problems like fibroids, endometriosis and pelvic pain. She also runs a nonprofit, Saving Mothers, that provides education and training for local health-care providers around the world. WHO’S AT RISK Although on average women worldwide live four ...

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DARPA’s mirror-killing membrane could change astronomy, allow total global surveillance

DARPA’s mirror-killing membrane could change astronomy, allow total global surveillance

When it launches in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will let us see deeper into the universe than ever before. Its enormous eye is centered around 18 octagonal mirrors which assemble to form the largest telescope mirror ever built, but someday even the James Webb Telescope (formerly the Next-Gen Space Telescope) will outlive its usefulness — and then what ...

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