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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...
Somber voice-overs try to explain why each woman didn't notice her pregnancy, often to comic effect: "She urinated normally." Sometimes the woman doesn't realize she's pregnant because she's obese or has irregular periods. Sometimes it's because she has been told it's impossible for her to get pregnant or because she thinks she's on fail-safe birth control. (See TIME's Wellness blog...
...Monday, a senior Administration official speaking on condition of anonymity told TIME that after Brennan's trip, the U.S. intelligence community produced a finished-intelligence report noting that such "chemically triggered" bombs "would pose a particular challenge to screening efforts." Although there was no indication the bombs were intended for use against airliners, "our analysts did, however, assess that such IEDs of this new sort could be used in an aviation-focused attack," the official said...
...still don't know what, if any of this, the President was told or what he did about it. The Administration has appointed former CIA chief John McLaughlin to investigate the matter further. And that means it may be weeks, if not months, before we can draw final conclusions about Obama's performance in handling his most important mission - keeping the country safe...
Hundreds of years ago, Icelanders entertained one another with Viking sagas - epic, blood-curdling tales about the raiding and pillaging of foreign lands. Today, there are new sagas being told on the craggy island about the greedy attempts by two foreign powers, Britain and the Netherlands, to pry every last krona from Iceland's shattered economy in order to repay debts incurred during the financial meltdown. The rift that's developing between Iceland and its European neighbors is threatening to leave the island isolated - and could even destroy its hopes of finally joining the European Union...