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By Jonathan Weiner. 356 pp. New York, Ecco, 2004. $26.95. ISBN 0-06-001007-X.

Jonathan Weiner is a talented science writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on Darwin's finches and a National Book Critics Circle Award for one on the genetics of behavior in drosophila. Here he tells the poignant story of Stephen Heywood, a carpenter whose right hand became weak in 1997; he was 28 years old. The diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was confirmed later; only 5 percent of all people with ALS have symptoms before the age of 30. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is incurable and lethal.

Stephen's brother, Jamie, was working as an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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