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Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.

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Twenty years ago, doctors would have cut off my leg and hoped, and there was a 15 percent survival rate.

Twenty percent of kids do not have those relationships.

Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.

Twenty years ago, a new generation of antipsychotic drugs were brought in; the promise was they would have fewer side effects.

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