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...mention of the team's name - or simply stop paying attention. Tickets to Lions' home games, at the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, are practically given away. The roughly 40,800 people who showed up on Sept. 27 comprised one of the smallest crowds ever to watch a football game there - and reportedly one of the thinnest to attend a Lions home game in 20 years. The game wasn't even televised here: the NFL blocks local television stations from showing home games if tickets aren't sold out at least 72 hours before the kickoff. (Read...
...said, according to someone at the meeting. During the campaign, Obama had promised to "lower health-care costs by $2,500 for the typical family," helping him make the sale on Election Day; the question, he knew, was going to be whether he could deliver on that specific number. (Watch Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept...
...thriving, cosmopolitan city, New Delhi has remarkably low self-esteem. Indians generally agree, and those living in Delhi have no trouble admitting, that the nation's capital is the rudest of the country's metros. It's aggressive - just watch the motorists, cyclists and pedestrians fight it out on the roads, willing the other to give way with loud horns, murderous looks or outright elbowing. It's uncouth - no one even blinks at jumping queues or spitting betel juice or urinating in public. It's loud and brash, entirely unabashedly...
...difficult to teach Delhi residents to say "please" and "thank you" and stop all those annoying behaviors in time for the event that will be India's graduation ball. "No one protested because they know Chidambaram is right," says Delhi-based writer Namita Gokhale. "And frankly, no one cares." (Watch a video about Slumdog's opening in India...
...comprise just 40% of the economy and create only a quarter of jobs. It's an entrenched situation that dates back to the days of economic central planning, and something that China's communist rulers do not seem to have the political gumption - or indeed the desire - to change. (Watch a video about China?s knockoff electric carmakers...