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...curb teen-pregnancy rates, despite the nearly $1 billion in federal funding that such programs have received since 2000. More than a third of all births in the U.S. are to single women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That an unwed teenage mother, the eldest daughter of a prominent politician, no less, can chat about the birds and the bees on national TV speaks volumes about changing attitudes--even if the young lady's message contradicts itself...
...original version of this story wrongly stated that Bristol Palin is Sarah Palin?s eldest child. She is, in fact, the eldest daughter of the Alaska Governor, whose oldest child is her son, Track...
...very talented guys, and the problem I had is that they all looked like heroes-in-waiting. I wanted somebody who looked like a loser. My daughter said, "You want a loser? You should see this guy in this TV show Skins in the U.K." We auditioned him a few times, and he earned the right to play the part...
...culinary team had prepared for dessert. Born in the Alsatian town of Strasbourg, Ost cooked in kitchens around the world before he finally decided to settle down and make his home in Boston. In 1996, Ost first opened Sandrine’s Bistro, named for his daughter, after a stint as the executive chef of Le Meridien Boston, a restaurant in the city. The newly minted knight said that he appreciated all the support he has received. “All my friends are here, and that means more to me than the medal,” Ost said...
...late 1930s, when the novel is set. The story sprawls around the family of Walter Blackett, a wealthy British businessman who is clinging, with increasingly comic desperation, to the old colonial order as his beloved city lurches toward World War II. Around the bungalows of Tanglin his tempestuous daughter is conducting love affairs with variously unsuitable men, his son is proving too unreliable to inherit the family firm Blackett & Webb, and his business partner, once a model of rectitude, has become an aging eccentric who prunes his rose bushes in the nude. (See pictures of Singapore...