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Pregnancy rates among U.S. teenagers, which had been dropping since 1990, took an upturn in 2006, according to newly released data. The figures, obtained from government sources and abortion providers by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health think tank, echo previous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that births among teens had risen. But the new Guttmacher report rounds out the picture: in 2006, there were 71.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 women under the age of 20. That's 3% more than in 2005. The increase was concentrated among 18- and 19-year-olds - pregnancies among those...
...With their dazzling orange and gold skins and fat bellies, the individual dragonfish are soothing enough to watch swim around Yap's tanks. Until, that is, they are paired with another dragonfish, after which they present a more gruesome spectacle. "They either try to eat each other or fight each other to the death," explains one of Yap's employees, who pairs each dragonfish with a stingray, which hovers over the tank's bottom and stays out of his aggressive neighbor's way. (See pictures of new species found in the Mekong Delta...
...country's leaders, stability is by far the most important goal, says Nguyen Quang A, former director of the Institute for Development Studies in Hanoi, an independent think tank that disbanded in September to protest the government's restriction on political research. Why? Stability attracts investment. Foreign companies, he says, aren't overly bothered by these trials or Vietnam's human rights record, but they do show interest "when their investment is directly affected." (See 25 people who mattered...
...generating concern it was perfecting a satellite-killing weapon similar to the one last tested by the U.S. in 1985. In 2008, the U.S. destroyed a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a Navy ship, ostensibly to ensure that the satellite's 1,000-lb. (454 kg) tank of toxic hydrazine fuel didn't harm anyone on the ground...
People with ties to Washington will also join the IOP this spring, including Ernest J. Istook, a former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma and a current distinguished fellow at the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, and Mary Catherine "M.C" Andrews, former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and director of the White House Office of Global Communications...