Much like a baby, it just won't shut up. The Gloucester pregnancy pact debate is as persistent as baby puke stains. Gloucester is clearly not Europe; it's apparent that pregnancies are on the rise there. But now Time has backed away from its pregnancy pact theory and is now suggesting that anti-abortion sentiment is the reason for the baby season. Nancy Gibbs writes: I wonder if some soft message has taken hold when the data......

Baby photo tagged Bostonist by hmmlargerart on FlickrIt turns out that the pregnancy club that such illustrious sources as ourselves (and some magazine called Time) reported on last week wasn't a pregnancy club at all! It was just a baby-raising club, which makes things so much better. After all, teenagers are far more suited for raising the children who'll create America's future than for having sex! Good Morning America has the scoop: "There was definitely......

Photo tagged Bostonist by Flickr user hmmlargeart You know something's serious when Time takes notice. Apparently the lack of jobs, hope, and birth control in Gloucester has driven some teens at Gloucester High School to create pregnancy pacts in which they all agree to become pregnant and raise their babies together. The school seems to be embracing the trend by providing free day care for students and forcing the resignation of health center staff......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

View of the Charles from Iceburns. A don't miss for photography buffs is Gregory Heisler's talk at the BU Photonics Center. Social hour starts at 6:00 p.m and the talk will begin at 7:00 p.m. Heisler is a legend in the photography world. His photos have appeared on the covers of Newsweek, Life, GQ, New York Times Magazine. He's probably best known for his 70 + Time Magazine cover portraits. Get there early!......

After the Lobel v. Get Fuzzy controversy the Boston Globe wised up and ran the Doonesbury cartoon featuring the reference to Karl Rove as ‘Turd Blossom’ without edits last week. The affectionate reference to Bush’s number one advisor was not poetic license taken by author G.B. Trudeau, it’s been reported (in Time Magazine back in '01) that among the many nicknames Bush gives to his friends, colleagues, and media that Karl Rove has gained ‘Turd’......

Lance Morrow teaches a class at BU on "The American Presidency", and it's one of those classes that is always talked about and whispered about and a hot ticket for a semester. Bostonist has had the pleasure of having Mr. Morrow in class and he's an insightful and fascinating guy, one of those teachers who has stories to tell. When he's not teaching at BU, he writes cover stories, essays, and book reviews for......