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...regards as a personal and national indignity. Outpowered militarily, Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo. "He would rather...
...called Dr. Richard Stone, a pediatric ophthalmologist and one of the authors of the report. Practically the first words out of his mouth were, "We didn't prove anything." Then he went on to explain what he and his colleagues had found. They were following up a clue from the poultry industry, which has long known that baby chicks grow faster if you leave the lights on 24 hours a day. It turns out that their eyeballs grow longer as well--and long eyeballs is a pretty good description of what causes nearsightedness, also called myopia, in humans...
...Chuck Close has gone one better than that. In 1971 he painted the face of his father-in-law Nat Rose. The huge, minutely detailed likeness was bought by a Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close. Did he know that one eye of the man in the painting showed signs of carcinoma? No, Close didn't, but his father-in-law had a checkup, and it turned out to be true. People...
...aunt, a Viennese art dealer named Lea Bondi Jaray. Shortly before she fled to London in 1938, it was seized from her by a Nazi art dealer; eventually it passed through the hands of the Austrian Gallery and ended up in the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and self-styled art historian and restorer whose Schiele collection is institutionalized today as the Leopold Foundation. Dead City was owned by a relative of Reif's, a Viennese writer-comedian named Fritz Grunbaum. Nazis confiscated it before sending him to die in Dachau. Its passage through the art market before...
...care. As it turns out, there was another woman in the docket: the Working Mother. A banner outside the courthouse read DON'T BLAME THE NANNY, BLAME THE MOTHER. And observers of the trial who wrote, called talk radio and clogged the Internet did indeed blame the mother, ophthalmologist Deborah Eappen. Eappen became the embodiment of yuppie scum, a single-minded careerist pursuing psychic rewards and a grander house while leaving her newborn with an inexperienced teenager with a taste for Boston nightlife...