By the time she was 30, Al-Tunisi was modernizing the Abqaiq oil processing plant in part by replacing thousands of manually operated valves with electric ones.

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Redux and Pondimin caused damage to heart valves when used with the diet drug phentermine as part of fen-phen.

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Export controls also prompted the European Space Agency to pay to develop a European supplier of solenoid valves, so that European space-propulsion systems do not depend on this American part.

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