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PD Ink 5 Nov 99 The current (8 Nov 99) issue of the New Yorker contains a feature article about a successful businessman who suffered a brutal onset of PD at age 40, and then built a new career as a designer of unique modernistic furniture. About half the text is rather silly and uninformed drivel about the furniture design and woodworking, but the rest, describing the subject's experience with PD, is dead on. The subject was one of the first to visit Sweden for Dr. Laitinen's newly resurrected pallidotomy procedure, and the details are fascinating. Exposing the PD story in this way to the generally thoughtful and cosmopolitan audience of the New Yorker is a great windfall for all of us, as was Michael J. Fox's congressional testimony. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013