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For more information contact Kari at (435) 787-1346. www.engineering.usu.edu/ete/aviation/pilot_summer.php POOLE & MONDAY, APRIL 25,2005 & NATION WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice skips across time zones and consumes miles with the same gusto she applies on the treadmill before the sun comes up. Three months into her job as secretary of state, Rice has pretty much defined herself as a tireless, stylish blur. She's been out of town the equivalent of one month, her more than 73,000 miles in the air amounting to almost three circles of the globe. She walks fast, talks fast and packs her schedule, from herritualexercise at 5:30 a.m. to phone calls late at night She glides on the thin ice of diplomacy in a whirl between continents, a former competitive skater who gave up the sport because it was too solitary. T h e secretary's philosophy is there should be no wasted motion " said senior adviser Jim Wilkinson, one of the aides who moved with Rice to the State Department when she left the White House as President Bush's national security adviser. Her latest trip, which begins Monday, is another geography-defying workout, a north-south-north-south zigzag to four South and Central American countries over four days. Following the immensely popular Colin Powell into the job, Rice quickly has emerged as one of the most recognizable of Bush's senior circle and the only one mentioned as a possible candidate for president. Rice has said she does not want that job — NFL commissioner would be more to her taste — but not everyone buys that A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll put Rice's job approval at 61 percent, higher than her boss's 50 percent rating. Still, she is well below the rating for Powell, who was approved by about three-quarters of Americans late last yearWhatever people think of Rice's diplomacy, they treat her as something of a rock star. Everywhere she goes abroad, Rice occupies front-page real estate in the local papers. At home, it is possible her clothes and hair are under closer scrutiny than her job performance. "I mean, that's the true issue that America has to face," Queen Latifah cracked on public radio. "It ain't Iran. It ain't Iraq. It's Condoleezza and can she get in my salon and can we really lay a hot comb to that head?" The first black woman to be America's chief diplomat, the 50-year-old Rice seems comfortable as die object of curiosity. She was brave enough to stride through a U.S. Army base in Germany wearing a long, high-necked coat and black stiletto boots. She laughed off stares and admiring comments when she wore a daring red ball gown to a staid Washington dinner. "I very often am asked questions about, 'Do you act differently because you are a female or do you act differently because you are black?™ Rice told Korean bloggers recently. "I always say to people, 'I'm a package. I'm black and I'm female and me. Even before this week's trip, she had visited 21 countries on three continents. All of the travel aside, whether she will end up as a consequential secretary of state remains to be seen. Rice is an academic by training and it shows. She likes the give and take of a setting like the political science academy Sciences Po in Paris, where she gave a speech in February. Centeipiece of a fence-mending trip to Europe, the speech was mostly notable for its location — a hotbed of French academic liberalism. While breaking no new ground, Rice was charming and sharp in answering questions, impressing scholars not easily swayed by U.S. arguments. Rice manages to look perfectly put together almost always. 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