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...DEAL WITH THEM For much of the 20th century, Americans treated forest fires as anathema, to be stamped out wherever they occurred. But experts now believe the zero-tolerance approach did more harm than good. Fires are part of the natural rhythm of the forests, clearing out underbrush and giving trees room to grow. You don't really fight wildfires, according to this view; you only postpone them. If we are going to learn how to coexist with fire, here is how we might start...
Benjamin Graham (who died in 1976) would not have applauded Grubman. Graham--market-stomping money manager, finance professor at Columbia, mentor to Warren Buffett--was the greatest investment mind of the 20th century...
...Adams' centenary year, and this collection of his work spanning 50 years was brought together by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to set him among the greats of the 20th century. He spent much of his life documenting the American wilderness, turning its craggy features into monumental images. Confronted by Thunderstorm over the Great Plains, near Cimarron, New Mexico (1961), the eye looks automatically for an Arizona Highways magazine caption featuring the words "grandeur," "majesty" and "awe." But if these landscapes became national treasures verging on cliché, it is thanks partly to Adams' dedication and activism...
...affectionate acronym) marked the most tonic collaboration-collision of an indie filmmaker and a major studio. 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to a sequel of the Jacqueline Susann book and hit film "Valley of the Dolls," hired Meyer for the job; and Meyer hired Ebert to write the script. It was just at the time - call it the "Easy Rider" era - when studio bosses briefly convinced themselves they knew nothing about the huge new youth audience and were ready to hand the keys over to dopers, arty types and the occasional tittenfilmer...
Lansing will leave behind several legacies: she and Dolgen pioneered the practice of "creative financing," inviting partners to help pay for expensive projects. (They famously capped their investment in Titanic at $65 million and let 20th Century Fox lose sleep when costs soared.) Lansing herself shattered the glass ceiling for female executives when she became 20th Century Fox's president of production in 1980. The female moviegoing audience, which was largely ignored by studios in the 1970s and '80s, can thank Lansing for helping rediscover them through the success of Fatal Attraction and The Accused, which she produced with Stanley...