A dancer's final turn

All chronic illnesses are cruel, but ALS is downright sadistic. For Catherine Royce, the disease made its first subtle claim on her spectacular life about eight years ago, cramping and weakening her left hand. She'd been picked off from the crowd - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a 1 in 100,000 calamity - for reasons nobody understands. Since then, ALS, or ... (Full article: 659 words)

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