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...After that, we were told to be sure to really take in the moment and enjoy it," Palfrey said Tuesday in a phone interview. "Carrying the torch is something that you're doing for other people, and it's something that few others will ever have the opportunity...
Palfrey will join a group of 20 torchbearers selected by the Coca-Cola Company—including Olympic gold medallists Shawn Johnson and Steven Lopez—to run a two-day leg of the Olympic Torch Relay. The relay will last for 106 days as the Olympic Flame makes its way across Canada to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February...
Palfrey's colleagues praised her longstanding passion for helping children with disabilities, and Susan M. Foley, co-principal investigator of Opening Doors affiliated with UMass-Boston, commented that the "symbolism of her carrying the torch is potent...
...Thailand's Kasikornbank Banthoon Lamsam, who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1977, ran the eighth section of the 2008 Olympic Summer Games torch relay in Bangkok...
...real estate crisis has led to a surge in arson across the country; incidents of arson have been fairly constant over the years nationwide, according to the National Fire Prevention Association. Still, officials here and elsewhere have been concerned that more owners of foreclosed properties would torch their homes to collect insurance money. Even this city's suburban residents, in past years, have driven cars they could no longer afford into the city, and torched them for insurance purposes...