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Such are the stories told in sensationalistic, Unsolved Mysteries style, complete with voice-overs and re-enactments, by the most outrageous of all of TLC's notoriously melodramatic baby shows: I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (the series airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. E.T. on Discovery Health). Flashbacks show unwittingly pregnant women partying, playing sports, looking at their heavyset bodies in mirrors - and then, as the grand finale in many episodes, hovering over a toilet, looking really, really surprised. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant: Travesty or Guilty Pleasure? | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

...women who have approached the producers (you too can apply, via a seven-page pre-interview form obtained through the show's website) gave birth on a toilet, though that seems to be a recurring theme. For the show's third season, which begins in June, "we are pulling back on the toilet births," says Wendy Douglas, a good-humored executive producer for TLC and Discovery Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant: Travesty or Guilty Pleasure? | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Judging from the coverage on parenting blogs, the series is not only a gasp-inducing freak show; it has also become a guilty pleasure for new mothers. A stay-at-home mom in Iowa who blogs on the site Funny in the 'Hood and reports having seen every episode of the show, some twice, expresses wonder that anyone can make it through nine months of pregnancy without having a clue something is up. "Can you imagine sitting down on the toilet and thinking something is going to come out of somewhere," she writes on her blog, "only to discover that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant: Travesty or Guilty Pleasure? | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

...famously declared that "11 o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week ... And the Sunday school is still the most segregated school." That largely remains true today. Despite the growing desegregation of most key American institutions, churches are still a glaring exception. Surveys from 2007 show that fewer than 8% of American congregations have a significant racial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...vindictiveness, the distant relationship with the truth. For McCainworld, all the old feelings toward Palin came back in a rush. But except for chief strategist Steve Schmidt's concise dis of the book ("fiction") and communications adviser Nicolle Wallace's somewhat more lengthy refutation on The Rachel Maddow Show, virtually everyone else in the McCain-Palin orbit abided by the Senator's wishes - keeping the secrets of the campaign secret. (See Game Change: Why Harry Reid Said What He Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her GOP Critics Unleashed, Will Palin Fire Back? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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