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Pleasure and pain at the San Francisco Marathon

Jul. 26, 2009
They had that real good hurt. Limping, sweating and sometimes bleeding, shoving bananas and space-age energy gels between their wind-lashed lips, and clambering to join the long line for the massage tent, those who finished Sunday's San Francisco Marathon...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler