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...These upticks will no doubt be scrutinized by the schools, churches and governments that had been achieving some success in lowering the teen pregnancy rate. After rising steadily with the sexual revolution of the '70s and '80s, the rate dropped sharply in the '90s - and then more slowly from 2000 until 2005 - before turning upward. But even in 2006, the most recent year for which figures are available, the rate was 39% lower than 1990's peak of 117 pregnancies for every 1,000 teen girls. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...clamor to have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declared an enemy combatant and hauled before a military tribunal ignores several inconvenient facts ... A military tribunal would provide many of the same protections about which critics complain: the presumption of innocence, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, access to counsel. The string-'em-up itch is understandable, but a military tribunal won't soothe...
...Rutzen] spends so much extra time working on her game that there’s no doubt that she’ll be one of the greats,” Delaney-Smith said. “I’m trying to [make rebounding an asset]. Miriam is the kind of player who hears the call...
Before the Harvard and Brown women’s swimming teams met at Blodgett Pool on Saturday, there was little doubt who the better team was—one was undefeated, and one hadn’t won a meet since November...
...comparison to the U.S., which sold 3.8 million copies, and the U.K., which sold another million. By its last two installments, 270,000 hardback copies of each flew off the shelves. "We know that more books are being published and more books are being sold - there's just no doubt about it," says Namita Gokhale a co-founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival...