Word: jock
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Martin--no American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder...
...Virtual Jock...
Wendel grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where he was nothing like the quintessentially nerdy mouse jockey you're probably picturing. He was actually kind of a jock: he played baseball, football, golf, hockey, tennis, whatever. But it was in video games that he stood out. "When I was 12 to 15 years old, I went to arcades a lot and played Mortal Kombat 2 religiously," he says. "I used to bet against other guys who thought they were the big dogs, and I usually took home about $50 a night. For a 13-year-old, that...
...English, yet he eventually attended Yale Law School. My mother came from China in 1929 and first worked in a restaurant; she later graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. As their stories show, despite prejudice, the success of Asian Americans through hard work is not new. Jock K. Chung New York City...
...concentration, Applied Mathematics, awarded just 36 degrees last year—not exactly the stereotypical jock-gov degree...