Word: asher
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...buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years ago for Asher B. Durand's 19th century landscape Kindred Spirits, a local icon that nobody seemed to remember was a local icon until the trucks arrived to take it away. Walton proposed to buy the Eakins jointly with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, then have the two museums shuttle it back and forth...
...anything whether or not you offer the service to people.”TAKING IT ONE STEP FURTHERBut is this enough? For Batter and others, more can be done.“For every student that gets in the gate, one is left out,” says Jeannie Asher Rosenthal ’00, who founded Let’s Get Ready (LGR), a non-profit organization that counsels lower-income students through SAT tutoring and college processes. “I don’t think that what these companies are doing is wrong or immoral...
...Asher was almost 3 when he began preschool, and that's when the phone started ringing. He was falling down at school. He became weaker and weaker. And after a mild flu, he stopped eating. By Christmas he was emaciated, but with a big, distended belly. His intestines had all but stopped working, and nobody could figure out why. Maybe it was myopathy (a muscle disease) or some sort of nerve-wasting disorder. "Don't try to figure it out," advised a doctor. "Just put in a feeding tube...
...Asher's parents--Anne Reckling, a child psychologist, and David Gould, an administrator at a private school in Columbus, Ohio--were determined to get to the bottom of it. On the urging of someone on a myopathy e-mail discussion list, they went to see Dr. John Shoffner, a neurologist and geneticist at Horizon Molecular Medicine, a private group in Atlanta. A few weeks later, a fax arrived with Shoffner's diagnosis. Asher was suffering from a type of mitochondrial disease...
Still, supplements have made a big difference for Asher. He tires easily and has to conserve energy--he uses a wheelchair if he has to travel long distances. He still needs a feeding tube. And he has damage to his optic and auditory nerves, along with some cognitive impairment. Nevertheless, says his mother, "he's a really positive, upbeat boy." Now 5, Asher is in kindergarten. He takes karate lessons and is learning to play tennis. But his family is well aware that he may not survive childhood, so they're always vigilant--sometimes to a fault. One morning last...