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Daily Life 2016 Woman of the Year: Mariam Veiszadeh
When Mariam Veiszadeh took the wrong, slower bus to work one morning in February, she innocently tweeted how she'd turn her bad start to the day into a positive: time to gaze out of the bus window and reflect.