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World-renowned architect Frank Gehry talks about designing the Cleveland Clinic's new Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which opened in recently in Las Vegas.
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Designer Suzanne Lee grows high-fashion garments, BioCouture, from lowly bacterial cellulose
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