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+LaTeX source of "Snake Wrangling for Kids"
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+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand License.
+To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
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+To build, you'll need latex, and dvipdf