By MARY THOMAS, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH - Curators, archivists and museum technicians are among the professions projected to show "much faster than average employment growth" over the next eight years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

"Work doesn't become art until some rich person comes along and buys it. Then it's art."

Like so many parents and siblings of special-needs children, George O'Donnell felt the pain reflected in his son's eyes when other children ignored him or adults treated him as a lesser being.