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More than 150 local kids participate in long-term marathon to promote healthy living

Written by Kiran Gollakota, Staff Writer
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2010

More than 100 Princeton area students, from kindergartners to eighth graders, set out on Saturday to run a marathon. But none of the youths finished the 26.2 mile venture. Instead, they will be completing the race over the course ...

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  • 10:57 p.m. on March 22nd, 2010
    Posted by
    Ludwig von Mises

    "In addition to the physical fitness component of the marathon, participants are also encouraged to complete “Green Deeds” — small tasks that help to improve the quality of the environment, such as eating more local food and using compact fluorescent lamps."

    Compact fluorescent lamps? You mean the ones filled with MERCURY? Yeah, that really improves the quality of the environment. Typical environmentalist: consider the pollution during the use of the product and ignore the pollution from the manufacturing process and disposal process.

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