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Satisfied with her wish being granted, Yevglevskaya-Wayne asks the boys if they have any cravings before leaving Cambridge. They say that they wanted to run in the Boston Marathon before graduation and did so in April. “We didn’t really train for it,” says Cornish. Yet despite a lack of training, his good looks carried him through the marathon. Tselentis explains that Cornish ran, cell phone in hand, with a tank top that said “call me” on the front, and posted his digits on the back...
...running, biking and swimming. "The first time I ran a mile--what a joy," he says. His next goal was an AARP-sponsored triathlon for older adults, in which he completed a 400-m swim, 20-km bike ride and 5-km run. In February he ran his first marathon, wearing the number 367 (his former weight) and dedicating the event to his father's memory. "I ran in the back of the pack, but at least the gate was still open when I finished," he says...
Over the past year, steelworker Eugene (Lou) Costello has endured pay cuts of 15%, 10% and 12.8%, plunging his annual base pay from about $50,000 down to about $33,000. "I feel like a marathon runner who sees the finish line but when he gets close, his coach holds up a sign that says he has 25 more miles to go," says Costello, 61, who works for Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio. "I'm going to have to work until I die." Costello chose to work in steel mills rather than the coal mines where his father...
...since we were outsiders who could be carrying SARS. But instead of taking us to the hospital, the police drove us to the local Foreign Affairs Office, where 16 officials representing every department from the local public-security bureau to the local propaganda office had gathered. After the drinking marathon proved ineffective, they took us to a conference room for formal interrogation. The procedure was videotaped, with a woman on loan from the local TV station holding a microphone. After much apologizing for having entered Yuhuan county without contacting local authorities?a breach of etiquette for foreign journalists...
...very impressed by the success of the AIDS Coalition Dance Marathon,” he said. “So I approached members of the Fox with the idea...