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...tree-lined street in Aberdeen, S. Dak. What a visitor notices above all in their cozy, split-level house is the photographs of smiling kids: grandchildren, nieces and nephews and, over the living-room sofa, two large color portraits of the Schweitzers' son Curtis, 26, and daughter Christa...
...that Christa has, well, got her mother in a family way, newspaper writers and TV crews are camped outside. Since the New York Times put her on Page One, producers for talk shows have kept calling, photographers have continually rung her doorbell, and somehow, through it all, Arlette Schweitzer has continued to radiate a sense of calm. "Christa has no . . . , " a reporter hesitantly ventures. "That's right," replies Arlette, her voice as clear and as strong as a church bell. "Christa has no uterus...
When this misfortune was discovered eight years ago, her mother patiently explains, Christa was only 14, and even then she was absolutely devastated by the news. "When Christa was just a little girl," recalls Arlette, "all she could talk about was becoming a mother." Two years later, during a visit to the Mayo Clinic, Arlette observed to a physician who examined her daughter, "I wish you could transplant my uterus because I certainly have no use for it anymore." The doctor looked at her curiously. "He asked me how old I was. I said I was 36, which...
...CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SABBATICAL FOUNDATION, named after the New Hampshire schoolteacher killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, raises money to give teachers time off to pursue further studies. The foundation, which was organized by Sununu in 1986, holds a four-day fund- raising ski event each February at the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire. For the past three years, Sununu and unidentified members of his family have flown to the event on Air Force executive jets. The Sununus in 1989 flew up on Air Force Two with Vice President Quayle. In response to written questions submitted...
...junior Christa Hanson has recorded 12 saves on the season...