Word: marathons
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...Though the descent ended in a face-plant, Sprague’s completion of the Antarctica marathon in March highlighted the global nature of her philanthropic mission to run a marathon on all seven continents. Beginning in Beijing in October 2006 and ending in Queensland, Australia this past July, Sprague holds the record as the youngest person to run 26.2 miles on every continent...
...every marathon Sprague ran, her nonprofit organization—In the Running—raised money for one continent-specific grassroots charity that addresses humanitarian or environmental issues, such as the AIDS epidemic in Africa or the protection of Antarctic ecology...
...with nearly four hours of raw video footage probing both that crime and society's knee-jerk response. "I left everything in so viewers could come to their own conclusions," says writer turned filmmaker Ing K, who collaborated with photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom and opposition politician Kraisak Choonhavan on this marathon of national self-examination...
...saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Now, brothers Michael E. Kopko ’07 and Matthew Kopko want to leverage the power of communities to help pay for college. Their new web application, GradeFund, uses the “marathon model” to achieve this goal, said Matthew, a member of the Princeton class of 2008. Just as marathon runners can ask friends and family to pledge money toward a race bid, GradeFund allows students to invite family members, friends, doctors, coaches, and other community members to pledge money towards their education. Donors...
...Greek pop sensation “Petros”—in the gym of the Malkin Athletic Center to raise money for cancer research. From 10 p.m. Friday night to 8 a.m. Saturday, the Harvard Premedical Society and the Harvard Cancer Society held a dance marathon in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, which provides fundraising support for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “Dance marathons have grown in importance in many other college campuses, becoming essentially what Harvard-Yale is to Harvard right now,” said Bianca A. Verma...