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The second is a population of students that studied using a standard lecture-based classroom, but with a mastery-based approach, so the students couldn't move on to the next topic before demonstrating mastery of the previous one.
Before March, 2011, I was a photographic retoucher based in New York City.
The older ladies sometimes hadn't seen a scanner before, but within 10 minutes of them finding their lost photo, they could give it to us, have it scanned, uploaded to a cloud server, it would be downloaded by a gaijin, a stranger, somewhere on the other side of the globe, and it'd start being fixed.
For her, despite all of this, those photos were the perfect gift back to him, something he could look at again, something he remembered from before that wasn't still scarred from that day in March when absolutely everything else in his life had changed or been destroyed.
People got very excited, there was talk of the Nobel Prize, and Alice really was in a big hurry to try to study all the cases of childhood cancer she could find before they disappeared.
However, there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease, and they have to live with incurable weakness, tremor, rigidity and the other symptoms that go along with the disease, so what we need are objective tools to detect the disease before it's too late.
We have the opportunity to start to search for the early biomarkers of the disease before it's too late.
And we are certainly not waiting for that check to drop through the letterbox before we start, and most importantly of all, we are not daunted by the sophisticated arguments that say, "These small actions are meaningless in the face of tomorrow's problems," because I have seen the power of small actions, and it is awesome.
We are designing and building an aquaponics unit in some land that was spare at the back of the high school, like you do, and now we're going to be growing fish and vegetables in an orchard with bees, and the kids are helping us build that, and the kids are on the board, and because the community was really keen on working with the high school, the high school is now teaching agriculture, and because it's teaching agriculture, we started to think, how could we then get those kids that never had a qualification before in their lives but are really excited about growing, how can we give them some more experience?
I pulled on my red corduroy jumper and my grey plaid wool hat before my mother could get her jacket on.
Excited, I bounced to my feet and flipped three more cartwheels before landing by her side.
In our last conversation before her death, she encouraged me to go anywhere in the world that would make me happy.
When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner I had met days before who had lost his grip and fell countless feet down that shaft.
After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us was a mass of holes that could fit into the size of a football field, and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring.
Well, just seven years before Einstein's death, an American scientist called Warren Weaver made exactly this point.
If you think about the bird flu epidemic of a couple of years ago, the more people that were infected, the more people that got infected, and the faster the virus spread before the authorities managed to get a handle on events.
Affected households have to wait for the insurance adjuster to visit before they can start accepting help on their properties.
Imagine if we could have these systems ready to go in a place before a disaster.
Scaling up globally could change children's lives who have never had access to hearing care before, using just the power of a cell phone.
I want to talk to you today about something the open-source programming world can teach democracy, but before that, a little preamble.
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea.
You don't have to have an economic incentive to sell books very long before someone says, "Hey, you know what I bet people would pay for?" (Laughter) It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal, right?
Basically this was also a major outbreak, a culture of dissent, a culture of basically non-conformism, which was not known before.
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names.
I mean, it existed before, but it just meant somebody who presides over a meeting.
So here's a problem: four million babies around the world, mostly in developing countries, die every year before their first birthday, even before their first month of life.
Weeks ago, you broke me as a woman once shattered me into a song beneath her weight, before you slouched into that grassy hush.
So before I came here, I sat down and I thought of some of the potential problems I might have in giving this talk.
Rimini Protokoll chooses 100 people that represent that city at that moment in terms of race and gender and class, through a careful process that begins three months before, and then those 100 people share stories about themselves and their lives, and the whole thing becomes a snapshot of that city at that moment.
So with help from old and new friends, I turned the side of this abandoned house into a giant chalkboard, and stenciled it with a fill-in-the-blank sentence: "Before I die, I want to ..." So anyone walking by can pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their life, and share their personal aspirations in public space.
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