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Hello...I am happy to report another letter was published by the Kansas City Star today. I was a (ghost) collaborator on the letter which was the idea of Jeanette Fuhr, who wrote the first draft and edited the second draft. As she is ill with the flu today, she asked me to post it to the list. It was published as submitted except it omitted one line about the funds not being actually earmarked in the '99 budget. Kansas City Star Saturday, Dec. 19, 1998 page B 6 Morris Udall's legacy Former Congressman Morris Udall, 76, died Dec. 12 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He is remembered for championing environmental causes, but are you aware of the bill bearing his name for Parkinson's research? The Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act authorized $100 million when enacted in 1997. People with Parkinson's, their families and friends worked diligently to make known the toll of this disease and the predictions by scientists of a cure being likely. (Present drug/surgeries treat symptoms but the disease process continues.) Diagnosed with Parkinson's last year at age 47, I have a dream. I see myself at 60 with the disease process reversed/cured. I'll still be an educator, and, I hope, enjoying my grandchildren, and watching the latest hit by a lively Michael J. Fox (who told interviewer Barbara Walters he plans to be 50 and no longer with Parkinson). Jeanette Fuhr Trenton, MO ======================================================================= Barbara Blake-Krebs [log in to unmask]