SOLEDAD'S SECRET(7)

Flex is her middle name. As a CNN anchor and special correspondent, Soledad reports hour-long documentaries and files in-depth series when major news breaks. Katrina? She was there. President George W. Bush’s visit to Mexico to hash out sensitive border issues? She was on the job. The 2004 contested election votes? Soledad was CNN’s presence in late-voting Ohio. She was also on the scene for the London terrorist attacks, and in Puhket, Thailand, covering the tsunami that took more than 155,000 lives. It’s precisely because of the devastation she’s seen—heartwrenching assignments it really isn’t PC to call plums—that Soledad keeps a balanced perspective. “I want to tell younger women they can have a husband, children, and a career, if they stay flexible and balanced.”

Photograph: Kevin Lein