| July 2010 |
| Navy sea lion trainer |
| When Craig Swepston wants his athletes to perform, he reaches for a bucket of herring. |
Craig Swepston
Location : San Diego, California
Age : 42
Years on job : 22As a trainer with the Navy Marine Mammal Programme, Swepston prepares sea lions for military... |more| |
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| April 2010 |
| Zoo veterinarian |
| Pete Black works for the St Louis Zoo, where his primary responsibility is to perform routine exams and surgeries and provide preventative care to the zoo’s 5 000 animals. |
Name: Pete Black
Location: St Louis, Missouri
Age: 29
Years on job: 2The African redneck ostrich weighs... |more| |
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| February 2010 |
| Bladesmith |
| Burt Foster has made knives that can chop through a plank, shave hair off an arm and bend 90 degrees. |
Name: Burt Foster
Location: Bristol, Virginia
Age: 37
Years on job: 8Spurred by a childhood fascination with the outdoors and knives, he decided at... |more| |
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| October 2009 |
This is my job
Molecular chef |
| Alex Stupak
Years on the job: 4
Location: new york city
Age: 29 |
Most chefs don’t have scientists on speed dial – but then again, most chefs aren’t Alex Stupak, who practices molecular gastronomy, or cooking with chemistry labworthy... |more| |
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| July 2009 |
| Blasting Specialist |
| "In terms of blasting technology, the use of electronic delay detonators is the invention of the century." |
Blasting Specialist:Andre de Jager
Years on the job: 12
Location: Gauteng:
Age: 30De Jager became involved in specialised blasting applications in... |more| |
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| February 2009 |
| VERTICAL GUN RANGE ENGINEER |
| When Chuck Cornelison gets ready for target practice, he loads his 3,7-metre
gun
and shoots projectiles in excess of 30 000 km/h. |
But he’s not firing ordinary shells: The manager of Nasa’s Ballistic Range Complex is shooting tiny replicas of meteors and spacecraft from three guns to mimic how craters form and how... |more| |
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| December 2008 |
| Aerospace engineer |
| Trong Bui an aerospace engineer, who conducts flight research at Nasa’s Dryden Flight Research Centre. |
> Trong Bui
> Edwards, California
> Years On The Job: 18
Trong Bui always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but when less-than-perfect vision kept him out of the cockpit, he... |more| |
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| October 2008 |
| Scoreboard operator |
| Christian Elias a Scoreboard Operator at the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park. |
> Christian Elias
> Age: 36
> Years on the job: 18 Embedded in the 11,3 m-tall Green Monster at the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park – the highest outfi eld wall... |more| |
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| September 2008 |
| Inventor |
| Mario Salazar has built everything from hearing aids to Space Shuttle hardware... |
But when he decided to create a line of furniture, he couldn’t find a tool that would make precisely angled cuts as quickly as he wanted. So the 44-year-old invented one: the ProMiter-100, which he... |more| |
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| August 2008 |
| Palaeontologist |
| Don Esker has wanted to work with fossils since he was four years old. |
“My first polysyllabic word was dinosaur,” says the in situ curator of the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. To map a bone at the indoor dig – a 26 000-year-old sinkhole that contains... |more| |
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