The true story of a life                           touched by a                        Former Head of                  The Criminal Lawyers'                                              Association of                     The United States                                and a                  Former President of          The International Academy of                   Preventive Medicine.           The highlight of that life remains       when the author's low birth-weight            high risk intensive care  baby         was improving and then removed,     slipping to a condition of cerebral palsy.          Following four agonizing months,                     when finally returned     Laurie improved physically and mentally  each and every year to earning by age eighteen                a brown belt in karate and                       a scholarship in                   Engineering Physics!