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Chris Warner has cheated the death zone, where oxygen is thin and the weather brutal, to stand atop the world's two highest peaks, Mount Everest and K2 - the only Marylander to have done so. The Annapolis resident and certified Alpine guide owns Earth Treks, with climbing gyms in Columbia, Timonium and Rockville, and leads expeditions of business school students on team-building outings to the high peaks of South America and Africa. With Don Schmincke, a Maryland-based business consultant, Warner has written a book, "High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success."

In 1994, Kurt Warner was a warm body on the Green Bay Packers' training camp roster, buried behind quarterbacks Brett Favre, Mark Brunell and Ty Detmer on the depth chart. Fourteen years later, Warner and Favre face off in the New Jersey Meadowlands for what likely will be the final time when the Arizona Cardinals meet the New York Jets. Cut by the Packers, Warner went on to greatness with the St. Louis Rams, while Favre established NFL records for career touchdowns, interceptions and consecutive games played for Green Bay. They combined to make four Super Bowl appearances and win four Most Valuable Player awards and have since moved on to play for the Cardinals and Jets in the twilight of their careers.

Nobody on TV does biography like PBS' American Masters - and that goes for the life history of institutions as well as individuals. Tonight, the series looks at one of Hollywood's founding motion picture studios in You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story. This three-night exploration of the film kingdom of Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack L. Warner is directed by historian Richard Schickel, and it is not to be missed. Beyond telling backstage stories about memorable films ranging from The Jazz Singer (1927)

Mstislav Rostropovich, the late, idolized cellist, summed up the talent of his student Wendy Warner as "a gift from God." And when an 18-year-old Warner won the Fourth International Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 1990, one of the jurors, Frans Helmerson, said, "Everything that is basic to cello playing she already has, plus a natural stage presence that you very rarely find. At this age, she's unbelievable." That competition victory launched Warner's career, which soon included performances all over this country and abroad, many of them with orchestras conducted by Rostropovich.

The Chesapeake Bay has long been a source of inspiration to great writers. James A. Michener, John Barth, Tom Horton, Gilbert Byron. But if we had to choose one book to explain the bay's culture and ecology to a newcomer it would probably be William W. Warner's Beautiful Swimmers. Mr. Warner died last month at 88 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, a sad event for the many readers who cherish his seminal work. The winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, Beautiful Swimmers was not only a wonderfully detailed examination of the life of the Atlantic blue crab but of the watermen who harvest them and the communities where they live.

William Whitesides Warner, a former Foreign Service officer, museum director and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose 1977 book Beautiful Swimmers chronicled the life of the Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and the watermen who pursued them, died of Alzheimer's disease April 18 at his home in Washington. He was 88. Mr. Warner, who was known as Willie, was born in New York City and spent summers with his brother on Wreck Pond, a tidal estuary, in Sea Girt, N.J., where they spent their days exploring the marine and natural life they found there.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Running out of time and options, Yahoo Inc. again rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s buyout offer yesterday and continued to seek refuge in the arms of Time Warner Inc. Yahoo, which faces a takeover fight if it does not reach a deal with Microsoft by April 26, is trying to sell a substantial minority stake to Time Warner, according to people familiar with the talks. The deal being discussed would combine Yahoo with Time Warner's beleaguered AOL Internet unit. Time Warner's stake, if committed to support Yahoo's management against Microsoft, would make it harder for the software giant to win a threatened proxy fight.

On Saturday, April 5, 2008, ROBERT F. WARNER, 81, born in Franklinville, NJ of Churchville and formerly of Dundalk, beloved husband of M. Jackie Warner; devoted father of Sharon Beazley and her husband Charles, and Donna Ichniowski; dear grandfather of Lachelle and Chris Scarlato, Steffany and Greg Byers and Matthew Jones and great-grandfather to Nicholas Scarlato and Greg Byers, Jr. and family honored friend Ron Nadwodny. Robert is also survived by sister Edna Unkart and brother Herbert Warner.

On March 30, 2008, WARNER F. STORTZ "K3QKO", beloved husband of Paula (nee Seiland) Stortz, devoted father of Alan F. Stortz, and the late Amy W. Stortz. Also survived by numerous family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held at the Kenwood Presbyterian Church, on Thursday at 11:30am. Memorial Contributions may be made to Kenwood Presbyterian Church or the Maryland Food Bank. Interment private. Inquiries may be directed to Lassahn Funeral Home.