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From the streets of inner-city Detroit to the heights of the medical profession, Benjamin S. Carson has come a long way in his 49 years...
...native of inner-city Detroit, Carson was a less-than-astounding student in his elementary school days who once referred to his younger self as "a walking TV guide." He credits his mother with transforming his life by making him read books and write weekly book reports--even though she herself only had a third-grade education. Carson did well enough in high school to gain admittance to Yale University, which he reportedly chose over Harvard because he saw their team win in an academic bowl, followed by the University of Michigan for medical school...
...movie with little knowledge of Pearl Harbor. "I never took history after high school," he says. And he had no personal tie to the war. His father, a first-generation German immigrant, did not fight in WW II. Instead, Bruckheimer's dad scraped by selling clothes in a fancy Detroit men's store while his son imagined life beyond his meager surroundings. "I could stretch out my arms in my bedroom and touch both walls," recalls Bruckheimer. He escaped to the movies as often as he could and dreamed of making films like David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia...
...feel the effect at the pump. The lag time for retail prices depends primarily on gasoline inventories. But when there's a fire at an Illinois refinery, as there was on April 28, it takes only a few days for the price of gas to spike at pumps in Detroit. Combine a fire in one place with a new regulation in another and you've got a national price spike like the one that happened last year, when a Michigan pipeline burst in June...
...management and won a battle with the other NFL owners to keep the Lions' lock on the annual Thanksgiving game. The Lions are still mediocre, but Ford raised about $200 million to build a new stadium downtown, then persuaded his fellow owners to bring the 2006 Super Bowl to Detroit...