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...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...
...largest conflagration in Colorado's history. Barton's admission--seven days after the inferno began--made it clear that the catastrophe is more than an unfathomable act of God in a season of at least 18 major Western wildfires. Named the Hayman fire--by Barton herself--after a pioneer homestead in the area, it should be called the Barton blaze for the tragic, confused humanity at its heart...
...cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock-market speculation. It was an intoxicating lifestyle that the ImClone chief apparently savored...
DIED. R.W.B. LEWIS, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (for 1975's Edith Wharton: A Biography) and longtime Yale scholar who helped pioneer the field of American Studies; of cancer; in Bethany, Conn. A professor of English and American studies for 29 years, Lewis published his last work, a biography of Dante, to critical acclaim last year...
...Anyone with eyes can tell why Astaire was considered the great American dancer. He was the first with the most - the pioneer who was also the supreme refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances...