Peachtree Road Race

Peachtree Road Race 2009 at Atlanta Track Club. It will be a huge event that will be held on July 4th. Apparently there are some problems with the registration for the Pachetree Road Race. AJC has posted the following message on its website that they are working to resolve the registration issues. Another writer informs about her registration experience for the Peachtree Road Race. "It took a while but I am registered for my second straight peachtree road race! I recommend everyone do it at least once. Very very fun!"

Some in Twitter do report that the online registration for the AJC Peachtree Road Race is a pain. However AnnaAndSpencer has a tip. She writes after successful registration of Atlanta Track Club. "Oh, for those trying to sign up for the peachtree road race right now - check the casual runner box then un-check it. It'll then work." The organizer of of the Pachtree Road Race have put together a brief Q&A about the registration and the race, which we present below. AJC reports from Atlanta Track Club.

The online registration for Peachtree Road Race 2009 has already begun since 7AM today, March 15 at www.ajc.com/peachtree and will go until the first 45,000 slots are filled. Atlanta Track Club said that the remaining 10,000 applicants will be selected from paper applications that will be submitted for the Peachtree Road Race. "Register for the '09 AJC Peachtree Road Race. StoryHaving problems? We apologize for any error messages you are receiving. The Atlanta Track Club, along with active.com, is working to resolve this issue and hope to have you registered soon."

Travis Henry

Travis Henry was rattling off his children’s ages, which range from 3 to 11. He paused and took a breath before finishing. This was no simple task. Henry, 30, a former N.F.L. running back who played for three teams from 2001 to 2007, has nine children — each by a different mother, some born as closely as a few months apart. Three days after the telephone interview, he was jailed for falling $16,600 behind on support for a youngster in Frostproof, Fla., his hometown.

Henry had just returned from Atlanta, where a judge showed little sympathy for his predicament during a hearing and declined to lower monthly payments from $3,000 for a 4-year-old son. “They’ve got my blood; I’ve got to deal with it,” Henry said of fiscal responsibilities to his children. He spoke by telephone from his Denver residence, where he was under house arrest until recently for the drug matter.

“I love all my kids,” he said in the interview, but asserted he could not afford the designated amounts, estimated at $170,000 a year by Randy Kessler, his Atlanta lawyer. Kessler said Henry was virtually broke. Some of the women claimed they were using birth control and it’s obvious they lied. But he should have still wrapped it up. Why is it that some men refuse to use a condom? Especially with HIV/AIDS doing serious damage in the black community. But right now he has nine mouths to feed that’s costing him $170,000 a year.

Margaret Hamburg

Margaret Hamburg is the daughter of Beatrix and David Hamburg, both distinguished physicians and early role models for her career in medicine. Her mother was the first African-American woman to attend Vassar College and to earn a degree from the Yale University School of Medicine (which had previously excluded black students). Her Jewish father and grandmother taught her to value education and family and to fight discrimination and oppression.

Margaret Hamburg, one of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine (IoM, an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences), is a highly regarded expert in community health and bio-defense, including preparedness for nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. As health commissioner for New York City from 1991 to 1997, she developed innovative programs for controlling the spread of tuberculosis and AIDS.

Hamburg is a graduate of Radcliffe College. She earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed her training at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. She did research in neuroscience at Rockefeller University in New York from 1985 to1986 and in neuropharmacology (the study of the action of drugs on the nervous system) at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.