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...January ’86). While any number of people told me that they thought the jokes were tasteless and offensive, the person that really got to me was Brian Byrne, The Crimson’s press operator, who said that he personally knew the family of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the accident and that he had been disgusted when he read the piece as it came off the press...
...Dolly begat Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom... The British company that shocked the world by producing the first cloned sheep announced Tuesday that it had produced five cloned piglets - and not only that, certain genes had been "knocked out" of some organ cells of the above-named piglets, signaling a breakthrough in the medical application of cloning technology: Knocking out the genes prevents a human recipient from rejecting a pig organ transplant. "This opens the door to making modified pigs whose organs and cells can be successfully transplanted into humans - the only near-term solution to solving the worldwide...
...play, the Chalk Circle is drawn, and the child (a doll) must crawl toward the mother of its choice. But instead of two mothers, we here have three: the rich Pamela, the loving Dulle Griet, and Christa (Laura Knight), the returned biological mother. The play ends on a note of grim irony that seems at odds with the other happy-ending aspects of the conclusion. While the irony has been present throughout, it isn't evident enough at the very end to leave the viewer feeling particularly moved. Nonetheless, the play successfully manages to be both entertaining and intellectual, always...
...Girls' Show" (Christa Donner, Alida Walsh and others...
...January 28, 1986, schoolchildren across the country gathered around TV screens to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, whose crew included a New Hampshire high school teacher, Christa McAuliffe...