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...April, Novey will be running the Boston Marathon dressed in a burger suit. As he prepares for this endeavor, he’s asking community members and businesses to contribute to Citizen Schools, a charity that brings volunteers to teach a second shift of educational material after school in middle schools nationwide. In the months leading up to the marathon, Burgerman has planned plenty of publicity stunts to drum up donations—he’s hoping for 1,000 new small donors in the next two weeks, with an ultimate goal of $100,000 in contributions...
Sophomore Magdalena Robak ran the third fastest time, 1:00.53, in the 400-meter dash and finished eighth in the 200-meter. Junior Jamie Olson also earned a top finish, placing second in the 800-meter run with a time...
Classmate Claire Richardson, who missed a chunk of the season with injuries and illness, placed second in the 1,500-meter run, a tune-up for next weekend...
...second group will also probably avoid lobbying attention, but for a different reason. Roughly 17 Democrats with mixed voting records on abortion issues voted for the Stupak amendment and the House bill. These Democrats are not members of the congressional pro-life caucus but were concerned about what appeared to be federal funding of abortion in the original version of health reform. However, they would have settled for something far short of the strict prohibition in the Stupak amendment, and they are likely to be comfortable with the Nelson language. (See the top 10 health care reform...
...Dancing with the Stars. "I never really watched it before. But having gone through Dancing with the Stars, it gives me a new appreciation for how hard they work for it," she says. And as a former competitor, she couldn't help but play armchair judge after watching the second of the three ice-dancing events in Vancouver. "Having been criticized on Dancing, I could see the different mistakes," she says. (See TIME's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics...