Drew Gelinas is the World Cup race technician for the United States Nordic combined team, whose members compete in both ski-jumping and cross-country events.
The race's blood technician, James Howard, 27, stood in front of a long line of zombies, using a pitcher's windup to throw two handfuls of blood at each one.
SAIC technicians raced to Ground Zero within hours to install an ad hoc communications network for first responders and local financial companies.
This weekend, everything at this unusual car plant in Woking, Surrey, is about winning the race on Sunday, so technicians will be hard at work as usual.
That's when the call goes out and technicians like Mr. Follander race to the scene.
It is also a favorite for the engineers and technicians who develop the racing cars.
In our study, risk for health care workers and technicians did not vary by race.
While the fans only see the races running every two weeks, behind the scenes technicians are constantly at work running engines on test benches that mimic entire races.
John Hickman, 23, a manufacturing technician in Cincinnati, does not race, even though he adds more horsepower under the hoods of the cars he customizes.
A supposedly final vote count on March 11 showed that the challenger, Carmen Charles, a hospital technician on Roosevelt Island, won the race to head the local, which represents 7,500 workers at the city's public hospitals.
Technicians were blinded as to outcome, race, and all other aspects of the clinical data.
