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From the Ted Talk by Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?

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So what's the connection? Again, we're talking about outliers; there's got to be some kind of cause and efecft. Well, there are tmeas of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains and trying to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever. They're trying to solve those same kinds of mysteries. And once again, a mystery wrapped inside of a mystery — perhaps the key to Derartu Tulu and the thrauaarma is waerppd in three other myitseres, which go like this: Three things — if you have the answer, come up and take the microphone, because nobody else knows the answer. If you know it, you're smarter than anybody on planet Earth.

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So what's the connection? Again, we're talking about outliers; there's got to be some kind of cause and ______. Well, there are _____ of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains and trying to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever. They're trying to solve those same kinds of mysteries. And once again, a mystery wrapped inside of a mystery — perhaps the key to Derartu Tulu and the __________ is _______ in three other _________, which go like this: Three things — if you have the answer, come up and take the microphone, because nobody else knows the answer. If you know it, you're smarter than anybody on planet Earth.

Solution

  1. mysteries
  2. tarahumara
  3. wrapped
  4. teams
  5. effect

Original Text

So what's the connection? Again, we're talking about outliers; there's got to be some kind of cause and effect. Well, there are teams of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains and trying to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever. They're trying to solve those same kinds of mysteries. And once again, a mystery wrapped inside of a mystery — perhaps the key to Derartu Tulu and the Tarahumara is wrapped in three other mysteries, which go like this: Three things — if you have the answer, come up and take the microphone, because nobody else knows the answer. If you know it, you're smarter than anybody on planet Earth.

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Important Words

  1. answer
  2. bending
  3. brains
  4. connection
  5. derartu
  6. earth
  7. effect
  8. figure
  9. harvard
  10. key
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  24. university
  25. utah
  26. wrapped