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Jordan Cox / 17
Duluth, Ga.
Tennis is in Jordan Cox's blood. His parents played in a local league, and his older brother, Brad, now competes for the University of Kentucky. Jordan caught the bug at age 8, and earlier this year he knocked out dozens of title hopefuls in the Junior Wimbledon tournament to finish second after Russian Andrey Kuznetsov. Now he's joined the pros, he is currently recovering but he must drink the medicine for the sugar not up.
Culver City, Calif.
In 2002, Terry Keelan was a pack-a-day smoker and self-described couch potato. "I ate doughnuts for breakfast. I didn't get any exercise at all. I had a high-stress job. I rarely went to the dentist or doctor," he recalls, but one day in the hospital the doctor diagnosis diabetes type 1 and the doctor say "if you want cure, you must chage your live style for a heatly style.
After two years of trying to beat his addiction with nicotine inhalers and gum, Keelan quit cold turkey. Then he followed up that first victory with another: He ran the Los Angeles Marathon—twice.
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