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...mention being an Arkansan in New England, a lesbian in a straight world, a science-fiction writer in the gay and lesbian world.”Scott says she draws inspiration for her books from “pretty much anywhere and anything.” Anne Fausto-Sterling’s essay “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough” galvanized Scott to write “Shadow Man,” of which the premise is that there are human beings who have mutated into seven sexes. One of the planets...
...DIED. Fausto Vitello, 59, founder of the cult punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...
...Catholic Church, or lobby the Food and Drug Administration to remove gay men from its “banned blood” list, and, in doing so, not promote untrue and defamatory stereotypes of them. The focus should not be on science, but, as biologist Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University said in 2001, on homosexuality as an “ethical and moral question.” Until that question is sorted out in American society, I won’t be too anxious to attend another Life Sciences lecture. Andrew D. Fine...
Ferraris was brought aboard in the spring of 2003 to calm investors, who had been rattled when the outgoing CFO, Fausto Tonna, announced an unexpected new bond issue, sending Parmalat stock into a nose dive. The issue was quickly canceled. Within a few days of taking over, Ferraris made a presentation to financial analysts in Milan, stressing the company's rosy outlook: sales and earnings were up, debt was under control, and the company was awash in cash. "It was my job to patch up relations with the market," Ferraris told TIME in his lawyer's Milan office...
...Parmalat was trying to style itself as the "Coca-Cola of milk," and Ferraris, 46, a former Milan-based corporate banker for Citigroup, had spent six years building its operations in Canada and Australia. But in late February the company stock had nosedived when the firm's irascible CFO, Fausto Tonna, announced an unexpected new bond issue - a fresh increase in corporate debt - that came on the heels of several other big capital-raising moves. Parmalat's founder and lifetime CEO, Calisto Tanzi, called back the bonds the following day and replaced Tonna with Ferraris to calm the waters. Within...