Spotlights

My passion for engines is genetic, Dr. Filippo Caliceti says. His father had it, his son has it, and the seconds before the green light are the ones he remembers.

Seventy-one per cent of the planet is water, and Dr. Taite Anderson counts the snow too. He describes the Alaska trip himself, and the part about his teeth is real.

In between he took up kitesurfing and hang gliding, and neither quite did it. Dr. Leandro Velasco on what parachuting gives him that the others did not.

The father of bone regeneration would rather not sit on a beach. Prof. Massimo Simion photographs hippopotamuses underwater, and is candid about the adrenaline.

Her brother compares her to the Terminator, pulling itself forward regardless. Dr. Elaine Halley's fastest marathon was 4:11 and she stops at the water stations.

Kayaking is a good balance with my work, he says. The founder of the Urban Regeneration Institute in Budapest competes three or four times a year in his age group.

The line went tight and it felt like hooking a high-speed locomotive. Dr. Nick Fahey had wanted the porbeagle for years, and it took him nearly two hours.

It started about a decade ago as a Mardi Gras tradition with an all-female parade. Now the New Orleans endodontist gives the shoes to people who matter to her.