Person of the Year 2010 Runners-Up: Chilean Miners

Chilean Miners
Peter Hapak for TIME

Omar Reygadas, 56, electrician
A widower with six children, Reygadas had been trapped in mines twice before, but waxes philosophical about life. "Forget the material things and think instead about the spiritual," Reygadas advises. "There are countries in war, people fighting for insignificant things; we should fight for faith, for peace."
From left: Reygadas up close; wearing his miner's hat

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