Glamorous as i'm certain the job of PopSci editor-in-chief must seem, most of my days are spent navigating the classic treadmill of subway to work, nine hours or so staring into a computer screen, then home for a few precious hours with my family and off to bed. So I confess to experiencing a discomfiting flash of self-recognition when I read the following quote in Eric Hagerman's soaring profile of Yves Rossy [page 36]: "In French we say metro, boulot, dodo: subway, work, sleep. If all people are like this, we are like sheep and nothing comes better. And we need some people like Yves."rnYves Rossy, the 49-year-old Swiss "jet man" on this month's cover, who recently flew across the English Channel strapped into a jet-powered wing of his own design, is not, shall we say, like a sheep.
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