Person of the Year 2010 Runners-Up: Chilean Miners

Darío Segovia, 48, drill operator
From a longtime mining family — even his mother, as a young woman, had been a mine explosives expert — Segovia has been working in mines since he was a young boy. "Thanks so much to everyone for their concern — and with all my heart," says Segovia, "I lament all the miners who didn't survive in the New Zealand and China and U.S. accidents this year."
From left: Segovia; on the right with a fellow miner

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