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Installation view of Will Clift’s exhibition, “Still Points, Turning World,” at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe.

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The Center for Engineering and Health, a member center of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, looks to develop methodologies and tools ...

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Cue the Terminator soundtrack; Foundation's Phantom is itching for deployment.