Here are some of the finish times for the celebrity entrants in the 2011 ING NYC Marathon:
- Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor, 4:53:52
- Nate Appleman, chef/TV personality, 3:45:42
- Joe Bastianich, restaurateur, winemaker and judge on MasterChef, 3:47:03
- Dr. Andy Baldwin, reality star, 3:17:31
- Richard Blais
Mt. Baker (by Misha Logvinov) - “Taken from the top of Mt. Constitution on Orcas Island. In the lower left corner is the town of Bellingham, Wa”
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight David Eisenhower
“The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953
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You can’t out-exercise a bad diet.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I asked an old friend here in Cairo, a woman with Western tastes that include an occasional glass of whiskey, whether the Muslim Brotherhood might be bad for peace. She thought for a moment and said: “Yes, possibly. But, from my point of view, in America the Republican Party is bad for peace as well.
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
February 6, 2011
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