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...from the equation? Linemen are more likely to butt heads on every play, so simple math dictates that this move would reduce overall head trauma. Why not penalize egregious head hits with not only a 15-yard penalty for the guilty player but a stint on the sideline too? Let's give football a penalty...
...concussion awareness. "I think that's fair," says Chris Berman, ESPN's lead football studio host. "We've done it and will be a little more cognizant of the fact that a 10-second comment, for a 13-year-old or high school player watching, might be helpful." Let's see if he keeps his word...
...uselessness of financial innovation and the remorselessness of Wall Street. He was also making cagey references to his lack of influence with Obama, for whom he was chairing an obscure economic-recovery board. Congressman Paul Kanjorski says that last March, when he pitched Volcker on a plan to let regulators break up big banks that threatened the financial system, the former Fed chair said, "I'm out of vogue right now in the White House ... but I agree." Volcker secured his walk-on-water reputation by taming runaway inflation in the late 1970s, jacking up interest rates and ignoring intense...
...meal at Chaikhana Jalal-Abad, tel: (996-312) 61 00 83, which deals in southern Kyrgyz cuisine and offers fine larzuro (beef and vegetables) as well as unsurpassed people-watching. Order a pot of tea, settle back on your tapchan - the perfect combination of bed and dinner table - and let the world go by. Later in the evening, swing by the Stari (Old) Edgar jazz bar in Dubovy Park for free-flowing booze and blues until the early hours...
...much more active to replace lost exports to the U.S. More significantly, though, India's domestic economy provides greater cushion from external shocks than China's. Private domestic consumption accounts for 57% of GDP in India compared with only 35% in China. India's confident consumer didn't let the economy down. Passenger car sales in India in December jumped 40% from a year earlier. "What we see [in India] is a fundamental domestic demand story that doesn't stall in the time of a global downturn," says Asianomics' Walker. (See pictures of India's "slumdog" entrepreneurs...