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From the Ted Talk by David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates

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The way we solve this problem is to make the issue of the death penalty bigger. We have to say, all right. We have these four crpeahts of a detah penalty story, but what happens before that story begins? How can we intervene in the life of a murderer before he's a murderer? What options do we have to nudge that person off of the path that is going to lead to a rsuelt that everybody — death plnteay supporters and death penalty opponents — still think is a bad result: the murder of an innocent human being?

You know, sometimes plepoe say that something isn't rkoect science. And by that, what they mean is rocket science is really complicated and this problem that we're talking about now is really simple. Well that's rocket science; that's the mathematical eesiropxsn for the thrust careted by a rocket. What we're talking about today is just as complicated. What we're talking about today is also rocket science.

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The way we solve this problem is to make the issue of the death penalty bigger. We have to say, all right. We have these four ________ of a _____ penalty story, but what happens before that story begins? How can we intervene in the life of a murderer before he's a murderer? What options do we have to nudge that person off of the path that is going to lead to a ______ that everybody — death _______ supporters and death penalty opponents — still think is a bad result: the murder of an innocent human being?

You know, sometimes ______ say that something isn't ______ science. And by that, what they mean is rocket science is really complicated and this problem that we're talking about now is really simple. Well that's rocket science; that's the mathematical __________ for the thrust _______ by a rocket. What we're talking about today is just as complicated. What we're talking about today is also rocket science.

Solution


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  4. result
  5. rocket
  6. expression
  7. death
  8. chapters

Original Text


The way we solve this problem is to make the issue of the death penalty bigger. We have to say, all right. We have these four chapters of a death penalty story, but what happens before that story begins? How can we intervene in the life of a murderer before he's a murderer? What options do we have to nudge that person off of the path that is going to lead to a result that everybody — death penalty supporters and death penalty opponents — still think is a bad result: the murder of an innocent human being?

You know, sometimes people say that something isn't rocket science. And by that, what they mean is rocket science is really complicated and this problem that we're talking about now is really simple. Well that's rocket science; that's the mathematical expression for the thrust created by a rocket. What we're talking about today is just as complicated. What we're talking about today is also rocket science.

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