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Sitting beside Hillary Clinton at a meeting on Capitol Hill two summers ago, Jennifer Bush cut a heartbreaking figure. The seven-year-old Coral Springs, Florida, girl with big eyes and a perky red bow atop her little Dutch-boy coif seemed a perfect poster child for the Administration's health-care-reform plan. Chronically ill almost from birth, Jennifer had already endured nearly 200 hospitalizations and 40 operations, and her $2 million-plus medical bill had exhausted the family's health-insurance benefits. Not surprisingly, Jennifer became a media darling, appearing on the Today show and on the front...
JANICE C. SIMPSON, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents, hasn't had a dull moment--or even a quiet one--for weeks. From the death of Ron Brown to the capture of the Unabomber suspect to the plane crash of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, breaking news has required Simpson to cue the efforts of correspondents in TIME's 11 U.S. bureaus like a master conductor. Adding to her workload, she has lately been coordinating the reporting for a TIME paperback book based on the magazine's Unabomber cover. The book, Mad Genius, will be in bookstores...
Jessica became interested in flying after her parents gave her an airplane ride for her sixth birthday, which was only 23 months ago. She began taking flying lessons twice a week with Reid, who said she was an able pilot, though what that means for a seven-year-old is open to question. Her father footed the bill for the flying lessons--about $50 an hour--and also shelled out about $15,000 for the cross-country odyssey. "That's less than I'd pay for private school," Dubroff told the San Francisco Examiner...
...part of an American theology of redemption by kids--a sentimental reassertion of the nation's conception of its own innocence. It is especially important to stage such pageants when Americans are feeling dirty about something. Jessica Dubroff's adventure--a Disney story of redemption by a seven-year-old, a '90s remake of Shirley Temple playing Charles Lindbergh--might have worked as a gaudy, cute, uplifting antidote to the shaming mess of the Simpson trial...
...real fascination and disgust turned on the idea of putting a seven-year-old at the controls (even with a qualified adult pilot watching her). The Catholic Church states that a child of seven has reached "the age of reason." The parents of most seven-year-olds will not say that "reason" is the first word that springs to mind. If Jessica had completed the flight in triumph, only a few would have muttered, "I'm glad it worked, but they took a hell of a chance." After the crash, the nation asked, virtually in chorus, "Were they crazy, putting...