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...reasoning behind the prerequisite, according to officials, is that spaceflight could potentially harm the women's fertility. "It's out of the consideration of being responsible for the female pilots," Xu Xianrong, director of the PLA's Clinical Aerospace Medicine Center in Beijing and a member of the selection panel, told the official government news agency Xinhua. "Though there is little evidence on how the space experience will affect the female constitution, we have to be extra cautious, because this is a first for China." Ensuring that the female astronauts have already reproduced, he said, will guarantee that their family...
...DIED. XIE XIANRONG, 37, one of China's most-wanted suspects, after he was shot during a police raid; near Zhanggang, Hubei province. Xie was wanted for the murders of four people in a September bank robbery and the 2001 killing of a cab driver. Xie was gunned down after he fired at officers who surrounded a fishing boat on which he was hiding, the Xinhua news agency reported...
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