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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Bateman, Janney (Teenage pregnancy) join 'Juno' family

Health Quarters of Beverly, a regional nonprofit provider of reproductive health care services for low-income and uninsured women, has elected Patricia Ho of Beverly as president of the board of directors and Cathleen Ward of Rockport as vice president.
The higher ed debate we need Mark Garrett Longaker's call for dialogue in the culture wars between conservatives and liberals in academia is a welcome move ("The myth of UT radical politics," Feb. 14). Since the 1960s, liberals have achieved - big word coming here - "hegemony" in the humanities and social sciences.
Jason Bateman ("Arrested Development") and Allison Janney ("The West Wing") have signed to co-star in director Jason Reitman's second film Juno , joining Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera with Ellen Page playing the title character, a high school girl confronted with a teenage pregnancy. Fox Searchlight Pictures will release the Mandate Pictures produced comedy written by Diablo Cody, which is ...
pregnancy. New Mexico has the third-highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the nation, and it is first in the nation for 15- to 17-year-olds. Knowledge of contraceptives is one crucial component of effective pregnancy prevention programs for teens, as confirmed by peer-reviewed research in the U.S.
Liz Smith WELL, THIS week Newsweek conducted a poll and discovered that 77 percent of Americans believe Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have too much influence over young girls. But the magazine - which put Spears and Hilton on its cover - surprises then by adding that overexposure to such celebrities may not do harm. (After all, didn't you have a teenage Madonna wannabe in your own circle ...
The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a U.N. survey of child welfare in 21 rich countries that assessed everything from infant mortality to whether children ate dinner with their parents or were bullied at school.
By GRAHAM GRANT A GROWING number of Scots children are becoming sexually active from the age of ten. A study has found that some youngsters are having sex barely six years after leaving nursery.