1.   TECHNICAL director Brian Sykes gets his kicks from hashing and twitching -- off-beat cross-country jogging combined with bird-watching.

2.   He attributed much of the success to the efforts of, technical director of International Lory, who died last year.

3.   And sharing that research should lead to common industry standards, technical director Dee Andrews said.

4.   Another fan of the new helmets is Randy Shafer, the technical director of USA Cycling, the national bicycling federation.

5.   As technical director of the Boston Marathon, Dave McGillivray spends every Patriots Day dashing from one crisis to the next.

6.   But Kevin McKenna, the technical director at Boehringer Ingelheim, said he was optimistic that final approval would come quickly.

7.   But only a dozen or so encoded disks have been produced, all by Reference Recordings, of which Johnson is technical director.

8.   Carlos Queiroz has been dropped from consideration after signing a multimillion-dollar contract as technical director for the United Arab Emirates.

9.   Chrisha Siebert worked as technical director in the theater department at Rockhurst College in Kansas City.

10.   Crazy is the word that Dirk Adolf, the technical director of a waste recycling company called GFU, thinks appropriate for the mark-to-compost proposal.