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Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
But just get into them more; they just think, "That was nourishing, that was extraordinary, I'm so glad I watched that with my family."
Thank you so much for coming to TED. (Applause) I have a friend in Portugal whose grandfather built a vehicle out of a bicycle and a washing machine so he could transport his family.
My family was not poor, and myself, I had never experienced hunger.
It read, "When you read this, our five family members will not exist in this world, because we haven't eaten for the past three weeks.
But I only thought that I would be separated from my family for a short time.
In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family.
The North Korean authorities intercepted some money that I sent to my family, and, as a punishment, my family was going to be forcibly removed to a desolate location in the countryside.
Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them somehow through more than 2,000 miles in China, and then into Southeast Asia.
Since my family couldn't understand Chinese, I thought my family was going to be arrested.
As the Chinese officer approached my family, I impulsively stood up, and I told him that these are deaf and dumb people that I was chaperoning.
But even after we got past the border, my family was arrested and jailed for illegal border crossing.
After I paid the fine and bribe, my family was released in one month.
But soon after, my family was arrested and jailed again, in the capital of Laos.
I did everything to get my family to freedom, and we came so close, but my family was thrown in jail, just a short distance from the South Korean embassy.
I went back and forth between the immigration office and the police station, desperately trying to get my family out.
In my broken English, and with a dictionary, I explained the situation, and without hesitating, the man went to the ATM, and he paid the rest of the money for my family, and two other North Koreans to get out of jail.
Eventually, after our long journey, my family and I were reunited in South Korea.
Because many of us stay in contact with family members still inside, and we send information and money that is helping to change North Korea from inside.
And for me, a lot of this started when I was younger and my family used to go camping in upstate New York.
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago.
We're trying to help build a social network that can help track and train the care of seniors caring for themselves as well as the care provided by their family members or volunteer community health workers, as well as have an exchange network online, where, for example, I can donate three hours of care a day to your mom, if somebody else can help me with transportation to meals, and we exchange all of that online.
There are eight children in the family.
As you can see, these works are about family planning, election in accordance with the law and propaganda of the institution of the People's Congress.
You know, the blissfully happy family moves in to their perfect new home, excited about their perfect future, and it's sunny outside and the birds are chirping ...
I'm one of the only men in my family, and they made together the decision to transfer this land to Léila and myself.
But there is another part that we must together rebuild, to build our societies, our modern family of societies, we are at a point where we cannot go back.
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
She often cried in our sessions, but then would collect herself by saying, "You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends."
Last but not least, Emma believed that you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends.
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