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The Canadian Champion, Flday, JuIy 7, 2M0 - 21 «De Santis'first publication makes short iae list for National Business Book Award a By IRENE GENTLE job as a business reporter in 1991 lo go on The Champion the line for 18 months. '[h e ust one year after Milton's But site did, and ten and dragged a a w a r d - HTTN TE iîsneu ner tirst book L'IJC On The Line, she received word that it had made the. shortlist for the National Business Book Award. Her take on the back-breaking and secu- rity-busting work on a General Motors automobile line was culled from 40 of the year's best and brightest books - one of only four 10 make the cul. The nomination had her feted a( a June I luncheon held in the Vanity Fair ballroom of '[oronto's King Edward Hotel, where she was ultimately defeated. The prize went 10 journalist Ingeborg Boyens for Unnatural Harvest: How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering our Food. But Ms De Santis was happy to at least lie beat by an issue de jour. "The book that won was on genetically- modified food," she contidied. 'A sery hot topîc." A long-time joumnalist liy trade, Ms De Santis has no great explanation for why site decided to drop a cushy (well, sort of) when the Scarborough plant closedi down. Those she worked with were scaîîered to other plants in other places. At least one, the one Ms De Santis msrried soon after, gave it up altogether and started up a smail courier company in Milton. Today. she bas bust touch with virtually ail her former colleagues. "People do scatter," site said. "'[ey go 10 other jobs and cilies and such." For her part, Ms De Santis retumned 10 joumnalismn, working for ftve years at the Wall Street Journal, during witich time site she bore her first child and wrote Life On '[le Line. She lefl the paper in 1999 and now works from home as a freelance writer while caring for her lhree-year-old daugit- ter. She also toils as a part-time reporter for thte Anglican Journal. "It's not a church bulletin," she said. "Il's a real national newspaper. In lier free time, slie draws up a proposai for a new biook. Site's keeping lte lopic close 10 lte vest, but will say il's a lirst- person experience and lias notiting 10, do willi business. ROBERT BATEMAN Fra ile 'GARY BLUNDELL 'KEN DANBY E mgrace AiAKmT REFLECTIONS ON PATRICIA KozOWYK THE ENVIRONMENT STEPHEN SCOTT PATFERSON E. RoBERT Ross A Major Exhibition at The Burlington ALAN SONFIST Art Cent refeaturing wiorks by LoRNE WAGMAN Robert Bateman, an Illustrated Lecture Series ami Special Workshops. BUUGO M a JUNE 4 - JULY 23, 2000 IM 0 1 T Y - 0 F g RUENDS W_ Emvi 'M A-1012TIT 102.9 - d« on the Line cen- t re a around Solange De Santia' work on a Generai M0 lo0r s automno- bile lino. The book h asa recently b ee n releas ed in paper- back. Burlington Iieights Plana e Upper Middle &. Guelph tint 332-2202 Oakville Town Centre 1 e Dorval & N. 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