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...former accountant, Schneider, 37, moved through management of the in-flight service department to the male-dominated operational side of the airline in 1998. While much of her work involves drab buildings and heavy equipment, the Seattle-based executive reminds colleagues that "an airline is a people business." An avid jogger who enjoys spending time with her kids at the family retreat in Idaho, Schneider says, "I hope I serve as a role model for younger women who value both work and balance in their lives...
...Burns is something of a pioneer. An avid hiker who likes to spend time at her North Carolina cabin, she became the first female CFO of a major airline two years ago, after becoming the first woman partner in the Atlanta office of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. "Most airlines echo the military structure, where many of the executives used to come from," she says, "but Delta has evolved into an organization that you might say is more welcoming to a female style. We reach across the company and use a team approach. And we don't follow the chain...
...Dick somehow survived to see the flourishing of his reputation: cover-story tributes in the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic; the opera made from his novel Valis; the issuing of old novels (some published for the first time) in spiffy editions; a generation of readers avid for his teeming, dystopic visions. "What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century," wrote Maus author Art Spiegelman, "Philip K. Dick is to the second half...
Mead was also a nationally ranked squash player and an avid photographer. His multiple talents and “magnetic charm” earned him a wide social network, according to Flanders...
Celera Genomics, which mapped the human genome, has a new leader: Ordonez, 51, former chief of the firm's genetic diagnostic division. An avid runner, she is respected within Celera but little known outside. Tony White, chairman of parent company Applera, says Ordonez has "a track record of turning technology into money...