Mitchell's scheduled visit to Damascus was preceded by two trips there since March by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and White House National Security Council Middle East expert Daniel Shapiro.

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Christine Fair, an assistant professor and Pakistan expert at Georgetown University.

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Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and expert in rehabilitation medicine, developed STAR after her own treatment for breast cancer, which she says left her too sick to care for her family or return to work.

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This goal, of course, is hardly unique to Google, says Hyun-Yeul Lee, assistant professor of Communiction at Boston University and expert in design, media, and technology.

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