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thank you for taking ten minutes out of
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your thursday to watch CNN Student News
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I'm Carl azuz at the CNN center
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our first story centers on a state of
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emergency in the East African nation of
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Ethiopia this is one of the poorest
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countries on the planet more than
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twenty-nine percent of ethiopia's people
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are estimated to live below the poverty
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line the nation's economy has grown
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rapidly in recent years but that's
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coincided with a rise in ethnic tension
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why well the country has a diverse
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combination of ethnic groups the largest
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the oromo ethnic group makes up about a
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third of ethiopia's population another
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the Amara's makeup 27-percent the t
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greys make up just over six percent but
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the smaller tigre ethnic group
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reportedly dominates the government and
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that's one reason why some other groups
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are protesting the government declared a
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state of emergency recently in response
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to the loss of lives and property in the
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protest but signs of instability remain
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the Ethiopian government in addis ababa
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by introduce a state of emergency in the
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country because of growing concerns of
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our security following several protest
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this is the first time a state of
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emergency has been declared in ethiopia
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in the last 25 years
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the devil is 52 people in a religious
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festival as their to increased ethnic
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tensions within the country the activist
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claimed at least 500 people were killed
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by the government denies this
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this comes after one of europe's largest
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ethnic groups has been fiercely
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protesting against the government the
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Romans makeup over at third of the
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country's 100 million population and yet
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none of the Ethiopians pass all current
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leadership has come from the aroma
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region protests started in april 2014
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when the government announced plans to
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expand the capital addis ababa into
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oromo territory
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although the government abandoned these
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plans the protest of snowballs at the
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2016 olympics the Ethiopian wonderfully
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is alyssa cross the finishing line with
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his hands raised in his wrist touching
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as if they're handcuffed this has become
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a powerful protest about the treatment
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of the aroma people by the government
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the government of Ethiopia in trying to
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stop the aromas from protesting too much
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are forgetting that the Americas and the
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Tigres also want to slice of power
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it's very difficult for a government has
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been used for the last 25 years no
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opposition within Parliament to actually
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face up to the fact that this may
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actually be sponsoring into a serious
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ethnic right within a tfp in northern
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Iraq a battle is looming Iraqi troops
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with the support of US forces are
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planning an attempt to retake the city
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of Mosul from the Isis terrorist group
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Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq
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Isis took control of it in 2014
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officials believe the terrorists are
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planting mines and explosives around the
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city to complicate the fight the lasting
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damage that Isis has left in towns near
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Mosul could be a sign of what's to come
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a lake of fire thick black clouds
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obscuring the Sun in the town of a
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yachtie south of Mosul i set this oil
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well on fire months ago the purpose was
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to obscure the view
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you of aircraft overhead but Isis is now
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gone in this fire continues to burn
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right on the edge of a town in which
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many people are now living alone on the
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chakra and in its shadow lives
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Khalil who takes us to his house
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somewhere in the midday darkness the
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smoke is stained two-year-old our beta
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and his sisters Khalil and his wife
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cover the children with a sheet at night
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scant protection from the toxic fumes
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here wanna be loved the idea that well
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is really hurting us idea says the winds
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change direction and now it's all
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flowing on us
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yes but he says they have nowhere else
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to go
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we could barely stay with him for 10
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minutes engineer hussain salomon his
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team are trying to put out the dozens of
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fires but it's a time-consuming process
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so that I decided about the workshop it
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took 30 days to put out one fire he says
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in the main street some shops have
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reopened also hear the smoke hangs
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heavily on residents of initial dodge
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daddy it's another Isis says Charlotte
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it's cancer that is really the heart
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that Josh's they called Isis here left
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behind a poisonous legacy of death
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destruction and disease the World Health
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Organization part of the United Nations
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is asking governments worldwide to put a
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new tax on sodas it wants off train
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prices increased by at least twenty
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percent public health experts say sugar
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like what's found in many soft drinks is
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mostly to blame for rising global
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obesity rates the wh 0 says thirty-nine
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percent of the planets adults were
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overweight in 2014 and then a new tax on
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sugary drinks would prevent obesity and
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diabetes and cut health care costs but
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would hire prices mean lower calorie
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choices when people want something to
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drink
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that seems to be true in some places
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like the city of berkeley california
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a voter-approved tax they're reportedly
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led to a 21-percent drop in the
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consumption of sugary beverages but
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results haven't been the same everywhere
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the nation of Mexico put a ten percent
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tax on sugary drinks in 2013 and the
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wall street journal reports that those
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sales decreased at first they started
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rising again recently the u.s. beverage
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industry says that the Mexican tax put a
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burden on those who can least afford it
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and that it caused thousands of jobs to
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be lost in Mexico's soft drink industry
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up next science and agriculture some
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researchers are looking beyond
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pesticides beyond genetically modified
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seeds instead they're literally coding
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seeds with bacteria in the pursuit of
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growing more crops and better crops the
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process is still being tested its not
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definitively proven to work there are
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still questions about safety for
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consumers but one of the companies
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testing micro biomes believes they're
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the future of Agriculture how are we
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going to feed what is estimated to be 10
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billion people by 2050 to get there we
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need to increase our current
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productivity by about 70-percent the
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ability to achieve that with our current
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rates in genetic ain and yield
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improvements are not achievable and so
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we need to look for new ways we also
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need to do it in a way that's
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sustainable for decades innovations in
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agriculture have allowed our food supply
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to keep pace with population growth but
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at what cost the technologies that have
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given rise to the productivity
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improvements we've seen in agriculture
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are generally things like agricultural
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chemicals chemical fertilizers things
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that arguably aren't good for us and are
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good for the planet
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what if there was a better way a startup
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called indigo is attempting to create a
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more productive and more natural way to
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grow crops without the agricultural
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chemicals a method that could
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revolutionize the industry we attempt to
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solve that problem by harnessing the
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plants natural microbiome
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the microbes that evolved over millennia
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really to improve the health of plants
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what is a microbiome exactly well in
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humans the microbiome is a community of
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microorganisms that includes the
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bacteria naturally occurring in and on
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our bodies the bad bacteria but also the
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good bacteria that help with important
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functions like digestion and
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reproduction the basis of what we do at
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indigo is a realization that that same
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concept is true and plants those same
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beneficial microbes leave in and on
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plants and until recently weren't fully
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understood but rapidly developing
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technologies like gene sequencing have
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allowed scientists to realize the full
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potential of the plant microbiome
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according to indigo the microbiome could
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be the key to growing natural super
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crops we've actually tested in all
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different climate conditions and we
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consistently ca10 plus percent yield
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benefit a ten percent increase would be
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a whole decade leap forward in terms of
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productivity the innovations that we've
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had that have gotten us to now have been
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really important without those
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innovations we wouldn't have been able
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to feed the last billion people we can
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now do better and i think in the future
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of agriculture will look back and think
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about the times when we put insecticides
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on hundreds of millions of acres and
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thank you thank goodness we don't have
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to do that anymore
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ok
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officials in little rock arkansas called
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their cities Broadway bridge
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structurally deficient this is how it
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got revenge cuts to the bridge explosive
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charges and 93 years of age could not
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bring it down
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officials are working to replace the
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structure but they needed to remove it
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first it took six more attempts pulling
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the bridge with cables from to tow boats
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before the steel finally came crashing
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down
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makes you wonder why they don't make all
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bridges this tough after all its
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strength spanned decades all that time
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it could be trusted
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even though gravity was its arch enemy
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it took blast and boats to cause the
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causeway to give way and all that
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actually happened over several hours you
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just saw the abridged version
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I'm Carl azuz go back tomorrow
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