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  1. Health & Medicine

    Oceans apart, but surgery succeeds

    A French group performed the first transatlantic operation when surgeons in New York controlled a robot in Strasbourg, France, which removed a woman's gall bladder.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Health & Medicine

    For a change, infection stymies HIV

    A hepatitis-like virus that causes no known diseases seems to help people stave off the progression of HIV, the AIDS virus.

    By Damaris Christensen

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    I detect a blind spot in this article. Theorists were quick to offer explanations of why the fine-structure constant might have been different 12 billion years ago. But no one thought to question the chain of reasoning that led to that conclusion.