The reasons for these absences include people who declined participation.

In 2009,

I see a couple new faces.

But they had a level of attention that was way off the charts.

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If you all stay down he wins it automatically.

Some of them, one percent, they want more.

And also in 50 other cities around the world, people participated.

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She participated in the beauty contest.

That gives you an idea of the different types of motivations and dedication.

The government put a 4.5 billion pot and said to the governors across the country, compete for it.

When 9 11 happened, I'll finish with this, I was in Hawaii.

We all know.

You say, Oh well, that's...that's always good. So tell me what happened at the previous parties.

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So this is one person in the game.

We did a little bit of it here with 1,500 people in Long Beach, and we do it in a classroom at Harvard with about 1,000 students.

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Politics is partly profane, it's partly about self interest, but politics is also about sacredness.

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Are you planning on going?

And again, I couldn't go. But it's a fascinating group. They make balloon animals.

I want to give you a couple of examples.

This is the Best Buy in New York City.

What you can do is, the more you run, the more points you get, and we have an auction where you can buy Nike stuff but only by proving that you've actually used the product to do stuff.

Dozens of young people attended the demonstration.

Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.

He was just trying to help the others participate.

Over 100 people were present at the party.

This is terrible that you don't consult these people who are actually affected.

Romanians and South Africans, Australians and Indians,

TED was a small exclusive conference that very few people had been to.

There were some three thousand people who took part in the strike last week.

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One of this things that's exciting and appropriate for me to be here at TEDWomen is that, well, I think it was summed up best last night at dinner when someone said, Turn to the man at your table and tell them,

So, here's the cause.

Sara's in.

She was with the Aussie team.