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On the recordApril 2, 2014
For one thought of a way to do this without tremendous expense would just be to take expired textbooks here in the United States that are effective texts, ship them back in some of the empty shipping containers that you and I have talked about, going back to South Asia, but use them and then have an ongoing program to do this.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly suggests using expired U.S. textbooks to aid education in South Asia at low cost.

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