Person of the Year 2010 Runners-Up: Chilean Miners

Victor Segovia, 48, driller
An artist and writer, Segovia kept a journal on the backs of mine checklist forms expecting it would found by his body, if at all. "I wrote for myself as therapy," says Segovia who is working on a book about the experience, "to forget the problems."

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