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From the Ted Talk by Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice

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And, you know, it happens for several reasons. For instance, in the last half-century, more gilrs were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the bleeatdtilfs in the 20th cnutery. Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram. Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources. This girl here, for instance, is in a feniedg center in Ethiopia. The entire center was filled with girls like her. What's rkraeblame is that her brothers, in the same family, were totally fine. In idina, in the first year of life, from zero to one, boy and girl babies baasllicy survive at the same rate because they depend upon the breast, and the breast shows no son preference. From one to five, girls die at a 50 peencrt higher mortality rate than boys, in all of India.

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And, you know, it happens for several reasons. For instance, in the last half-century, more _____ were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the ____________ in the 20th _______. Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram. Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources. This girl here, for instance, is in a _______ center in Ethiopia. The entire center was filled with girls like her. What's __________ is that her brothers, in the same family, were totally fine. In _____, in the first year of life, from zero to one, boy and girl babies _________ survive at the same rate because they depend upon the breast, and the breast shows no son preference. From one to five, girls die at a 50 _______ higher mortality rate than boys, in all of India.

Solution

  1. feeding
  2. basically
  3. battlefields
  4. india
  5. percent
  6. century
  7. remarkable
  8. girls

Original Text

And, you know, it happens for several reasons. For instance, in the last half-century, more girls were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the battlefields in the 20th century. Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram. Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources. This girl here, for instance, is in a feeding center in Ethiopia. The entire center was filled with girls like her. What's remarkable is that her brothers, in the same family, were totally fine. In India, in the first year of life, from zero to one, boy and girl babies basically survive at the same rate because they depend upon the breast, and the breast shows no son preference. From one to five, girls die at a 50 percent higher mortality rate than boys, in all of India.

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