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From the Ted Talk by Nancy Frates: Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge

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And those naysayers, let's just talk a couple of stats, shall we? Okay, so the ALS Association, they think by year end, it'll be 160 million dollars. ALS TDI in Cambridge, they raised three moililn dollars. Well, guses what? They had a clinical trial for a drug that they've been developing. It was on a three-year track for funding. Two months. It's coming out starting in two mohtns. (Applause) And YouTube has reported that over 150 countries have posted Ice Bucket Challenges for ALS. And Facebook, 2.5 million videos, and I had the aweomse adventure visiting the Facebook cmupas last week, and I said to them, "I know what it was like in my husoe. I can't igmnaie what it was like around here." All she said was, "Jaw-dropping."

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And those naysayers, let's just talk a couple of stats, shall we? Okay, so the ALS Association, they think by year end, it'll be 160 million dollars. ALS TDI in Cambridge, they raised three _______ dollars. Well, _____ what? They had a clinical trial for a drug that they've been developing. It was on a three-year track for funding. Two months. It's coming out starting in two ______. (Applause) And YouTube has reported that over 150 countries have posted Ice Bucket Challenges for ALS. And Facebook, 2.5 million videos, and I had the _______ adventure visiting the Facebook ______ last week, and I said to them, "I know what it was like in my _____. I can't _______ what it was like around here." All she said was, "Jaw-dropping."

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  1. awesome
  2. million
  3. guess
  4. imagine
  5. house
  6. months
  7. campus

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And those naysayers, let's just talk a couple of stats, shall we? Okay, so the ALS Association, they think by year end, it'll be 160 million dollars. ALS TDI in Cambridge, they raised three million dollars. Well, guess what? They had a clinical trial for a drug that they've been developing. It was on a three-year track for funding. Two months. It's coming out starting in two months. (Applause) And YouTube has reported that over 150 countries have posted Ice Bucket Challenges for ALS. And Facebook, 2.5 million videos, and I had the awesome adventure visiting the Facebook campus last week, and I said to them, "I know what it was like in my house. I can't imagine what it was like around here." All she said was, "Jaw-dropping."

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