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...racehorse in full gallop - he even looks a bit equine - his feet barely touching the ground as he skims the surface of issues. He conveys a sense of power and fluency - and fun. He has a self-deprecating sense of humor and uses it to good effect. But his speed of delivery also has an element of sleight of hand. He moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided. He never mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about...
...very different enemy: U.S. bureaucracy. The Senate plan has some provisions designed to cut through the reams of paperwork. But the U.S. consulates in Mexico, which have to interview and approve each worker before every season, are already swamped. Last June the Department of State, in an effort to speed up visa processing, began to outsource the appointment scheduling to the Computer Sciences Corp., a FORTUNE 500 company that handles everything from IT to fighting wars for the U.S. government around the world. According to Eury, the outsourcing actually made the system worse for his farmers. Their would-be workers...
...pilot in the U.S. A few years later, brash aviator Robert Buck was a national hero. Dubbed the Schoolboy Pilot--he drank milk in flight and called his parents after every landing--Buck flew a 28-hour 1930 trip from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles, setting the junior transcontinental speed record, and made a record round trip to Havana in 13 hours. A chief pilot for TWA, where he worked from 1937 to 1974, Buck wrote such acclaimed books as North Star Over My Shoulder, a must- read for new pilots...
...needed speed and we got speed at the wide receiver position,” Murphy said...
Other notables include a pair of defensive backs. Collin Zych from Plano, Texas, has a twin brother who committed to the University of Texas, while John Fahnenstiel from North Muskegon, Mich. placed third in SPARQ (a measurement of speed, power, reaction, agility and quickness) rating at the annual Clemson Nike Camp last May. The SPARQ rating weighs and combines a player’s 40-yard dash, 20-yard shuffle, vertical jump and bench press into a single number intended to measure overall athleticism...