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Indonesian schoolchildren recite at the end of their prayers to Allah, "two children are enough / Good for family planning body and soul / It's good for you, body and soul / It'll keep you well preserved." Women once doomed to uncontrolled fertility are now coerced into contraception. The explosion of reproductive technologies in the modern age, such as sperm banks and test tube babies, is a mixed blessing at best for women, changing perhaps the means but not necessarily the forces of (re)production...
...seemed imminent. Christa McAuliffe was the pioneer and the vibrant symbol of this amazing new era of space for Everyman. An ebullient high school social-studies teacher from Concord, N.H., she was to be the first ordinary citizen to be shot into space, charged with showing millions of watchful schoolchildren how wonderful it could be. She was bringing every American who had ever been taught by a Mrs. McAuliffe into this new era with her. It was an era that lasted only 73 seconds...
...Saturday the sad sound of bugles blowing taps rolled across the site from which the astronauts had climbed so joyfully, but so briefly, into the air. Employees of the Kennedy Space Center held a memorial service near the stands where the schoolchildren had watched the lift-off. A helicopter then carried a wreath of white chrysanthemums and seven red carnations two miles out to sea and dropped them into the gray water...
CAMBRIDGE -- More than 600 red, white and blue balloons, each carrying a student's message or prayer, were released by schoolchildren in tribute to the seven astronauts who perished last week aboard the space shuttle Challenger...
Officials at the school said they have been deluged with questions about the explosion by schoolchildren having difficulty understanding the tragedy and the fate of the seven astronauts...