--- title: Technology: How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life description: Why Arab leaders must take charge of stability in the region, how all the black males at a poor urban high school graduated and more. canonical: https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-17T18:59:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:26.081Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 17, 2015 6:59 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 17, 2015 6:59 PM CUT **1\.** [**Doctors in China 3D-printed a new skull for a little girl.**](http://www.medicaldaily.com/chinese-girl-becomes-worlds-first-receive-full-skull-reconstruction-3d-printing-343390 "undefined") By Lizette Borreli in Medical Daily **2\.** [**Learn the secret behind this low-income high school’s 100% graduation rate for black men.**](http://hechingerreport.org/a-low-income-brooklyn-high-school-where-100-percent-of-black-male-students-graduate/ "undefined") By Meredith Kolodner at Hechinger Report **3\.** [**Your phone can tell whether you’re depressed.**](http://time.com/3958128/smartphone-depression/ "undefined") By Mandy Oaklander in Time **4\.** [**Find out how repealing a century-old protectionist law could save Puerto Rico.**](http://economics21.org/commentary/jones-act-puerto-rico-debt-crisis-anne-krueger-07-15-2015 "undefined") By Patrick Holland in E21 **5\.** [**Iran deal or no deal, it’s time for Arab governments to take charge in the region.**](http://www.lawfareblog.com/iran-deal-wont-stabilize-messy-middle-east-maybe-arab-states-can "undefined") By Tamara Cofman Wittes in Lawfare  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/"},"headline":"How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life","datePublished":"2015-07-17T18:59:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:26.081Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/","keywords":["Innovation","Depression","Iran","High School","Phone","3D printing","Puerto Rico","Arab"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3962354/3d-printing-save-life/","name":"How 3D-Printing Gave One Girl a New Lease on Life"}}]}] ```