Lots of condensed text with funny numbers and cryptic words and acronyms.

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Sesame Street was started in November 1969 with the aim of teaching children numbers and words using cartoons and puppets.

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Kindle Paperwhite also comes with built-in dictionaries for instant lookup of words, Real Page Numbers, support for bookmarks and annotations, and more.

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If we are all as concerned as we claim to be about the staggering amount of debt our country has run up, we all need to get real about numbers and words, acknowledge that we have choices, and quit playing politics with our future prosperity.

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