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The Tool That's Most Associated With The Recent Progress Against Malaria Is The Long-lasting Bed Net. Bed Nets Are A Fantastic Innovation. But We Can Do Even Better. We Can Invent New Ways To Control The Mosquitoes That Carry The Malaria Parasite.

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The Tool That's Most Associated With The Recent Progress Against Malaria Is The Long-lasting Bed Net. Bed Nets Are A Fantastic Innovation. But We Can Do Even Better. We Can Invent New Ways To Control The Mosquitoes That Carry The Malaria Parasite.

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At Some Point, That Risk-taking Private Capital Can Take Over, And Have Patents And Trade Secrets And Things That Let Them Lead The Way, Which Happened With The Steam Engine And Some Other Things, Although With Energy, The Time Of Adoption Is A Lot Longer Than It Is With, Say, It Products Or Even Medical Advances, Like Drugs And Vaccines.

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The Government Is There Day In And Day Out, If You Want All Kids To Have Education, If You Want To Run Courts, If You Want To Have An Army, If You Want To Have Roads, You've Got To Have The Taxation System That Funds Everything That You Expect.

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