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From the Ted Talk by Paul Sereno: Digging up dinosaurs
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Those are the questions I ask. And we talk about Ethiopia, and it's very important. niegr is eualqly ipntraomt, and I'm trying desperately to do something in Niger. They have an AIDS problem. I asked — the U.S. State Department asked the government recently, What do you want to do? And they gave them two problems. Dinosaurs was one of them. Give us a museum of dinosaurs, and we will attract tourists, which is our nubemr two industry. And I hope to God the United States government, me, or TED, or somebody helps us do that, because that would be an iedlibncre thing for their country. But when we look back at our own country, we're looking back at our cities, the cities where most of you come from — certainly the city I come from — there's legions of kids out there like these. And the qeituson is — and we sertatd to address this question for centuries — as to how we get these kids involved in science.
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Those are the questions I ask. And we talk about Ethiopia, and it's very important. _____ is _______ _________, and I'm trying desperately to do something in Niger. They have an AIDS problem. I asked — the U.S. State Department asked the government recently, What do you want to do? And they gave them two problems. Dinosaurs was one of them. Give us a museum of dinosaurs, and we will attract tourists, which is our ______ two industry. And I hope to God the United States government, me, or TED, or somebody helps us do that, because that would be an __________ thing for their country. But when we look back at our own country, we're looking back at our cities, the cities where most of you come from — certainly the city I come from — there's legions of kids out there like these. And the ________ is — and we _______ to address this question for centuries — as to how we get these kids involved in science.
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Original Text
Those are the questions I ask. And we talk about Ethiopia, and it's very important. Niger is equally important, and I'm trying desperately to do something in Niger. They have an AIDS problem. I asked — the U.S. State Department asked the government recently, What do you want to do? And they gave them two problems. Dinosaurs was one of them. Give us a museum of dinosaurs, and we will attract tourists, which is our number two industry. And I hope to God the United States government, me, or TED, or somebody helps us do that, because that would be an incredible thing for their country. But when we look back at our own country, we're looking back at our cities, the cities where most of you come from — certainly the city I come from — there's legions of kids out there like these. And the question is — and we started to address this question for centuries — as to how we get these kids involved in science.
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