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None of the rising juniors TIME identified as being members of the pact have come forward publicly, but nine Gloucester High students have talked to TIME about the girls who decided to get pregnant. Some described the pregnant teens as having little parental supervision. "They could stay out all night if they wanted," says a classmate, whose parents requested that she not be identified by name. Others noted a herd mentality. "I think the plan was a lot about peer pressure," says Nicole Jewell, a rising junior who describes herself as being friends with some of the girls involved...
Singer, who is also a statistician, said she would put particular emphasis on improving the lot of junior faculty at Harvard, adding that she is familiar with the "challenging" environment from her own days as an assistant professor at Harvard...
...this approach would work in any individual case depends, obviously, on the kid and the parent. Peele, the addiction expert, raised his own daughter (who is 20 and will be a junior at New York University) to drink a "few sips" of alcohol at family meals until she was about 16, when she could have a full glass of whatever the adults were drinking. "You give them sips as smaller kids, and you don't make a big deal about it," says Peele, 62. "Around 16, give them a glass of wine. A second glass probably doesn't make sense...
...work--or what some might term insanity--paid off. Ivanovic was a promising but not phenomenal junior player. To fly to tournaments, Ivanovic and her mother Dragana took seven-hour bus trips to the Budapest airport, since there were no flights out of Belgrade. Because of Milosevic's war crimes, Serbians were often viewed with disdain. "We would say we were from Serbia, and people would look at you suspiciously," Ivanovic says. "They would pull you aside, and you could tell from the look in their face that they felt sorry for you. It was very frustrating...
...Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future. - With reporting by Kimberley McLeod/New York...