by Natalie Weinstein
July 4, 2008 1:37 PM PDT

The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press. "The child has been returned to his parents," prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told the AP on Thursday.

The parents had told the authorities the posting had been a joke. Prosecutors eventually agreed and dropped their investigation into child trafficking, the news service reported. The original ad that ran May 24 stated: "Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller."

The parents, both in their early 20s and residents of Unterallgau, were not identified. The bid price, 1 euro, is equivalent to about $1.57. Otto Gaschler, deputy chief of youth services in Unterallgau, told the AP that the posting was "like a game for them. They never thought that this stupid joke could have such an effect."

Gaschler said he didn't know how exactly how long the infant was away from home but said it was for several days. "The parents always had contact to their son," he noted. A social worker is checking on the family, he told the AP.

July 04, 2008
By Peter Sayer

For Google, ready Privacy: That could be the subliminal message Google wants to send by replacing its name on its famously spartan home page with a link to its privacy policy.

Last month, privacy organizations wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking the company to link to its privacy policy from its home page. Including the link on the home page is good practice -- and also mandated by California law, the organizations said. On Thursday, Google acceded to the request, putting the word "Privacy" at the foot of its home page and linking it to its privacy information pages.

The link replaces the company's name next to the copyright notice, leaving the number of words on the home page unchanged. Google had previously declined to make the change to its home page, saying that users appreciate the lack of clutter there. Microsoft and Yahoo both include privacy links on their search pages, while Ask.com added a link to its privacy policy on June 18.

The order to remove the company's name to make way for the privacy link came right from the company's founders, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience Marissa Mayer explained in a posting to the company's blog. "Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away -- keeping the 'weight' of the homepage unchanged at 28," she said.

By Sylvie Barak
04 July 2008, 4:32 PM

AS IF WATCHING the Tour De France on TV wasn’t boring enough, the organisers of the three week long bike race have now teamed up with Google to let fans see the route and track the cyclists’ progress on Google Maps.

Using Google’s recently released Street View, which has up until now only been available in the US, those with nothing better to do with their time can now take a detailed, street level look at all 21 stages of the route, spanning 3,500 km from the coast of Brittany, up to the top of Alpe d'Huez, and to the finish on the bumpy cobbled streets of the Champs Elysees.

The director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, noted that “This is a new way for Tour de France fans to immerse themselves in the race”. Aside from wearing super tight lycra shorts in solidarity, that is.

Product Manager of Google Maps, Ioannis Kalafatis, added that his firm was “very excited to be part of such a great sporting event as the Tour De France, and to make this event the first launch of our Street View imagery in Europe”. The first launch of Street View in Europe and Google chooses the backroads and mountain paths of rural France? Bah! On yer bike with you!

by Paul Murphy
July 5th, 2008 @ 12:15 am

Yesterday, Americans celebrated Independence Day - and I got to spent too much of the day loafing around paging lazily through a whole bunch of more or less nutty political sites.

One of things I noticed was the marked difference in treatment accorded a particularly nasty little controversy around whether or not google was purposely shutting down anti-Obama sites on its blogger.com network. Here’s the salient bit from what appears to have been the first blast of the whistle - by Warner Huston:

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched.

A bit after writing this he added this update above his original story: Update: Perhaps it isn’t google, but Obamaniacs taking advantage of google’s faulty sytem. A commenter explains: The problem with blogger is that a group of people with an ax to grind can report any blog as spam and after enough complaints, it’s automatically suspended until a real live human being can get around to examining it.

by Natalie Weinstein
July 4, 2008 2:52 PM PDT

Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May.

Financial terms of the deal, which closed Thursday, were not released. Lexico, a privately held company based in Long Beach, Calif., debuted in 1995 with Dictionary.com. Altogether, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com had more than 28 million unique visitors in March, according to Lexico.

In May, Ask.com said the acquisition would increase its unique monthly users by 11 percent to 145 million. According to statistics-tracker Hitwise, Ask.com had 4.23 percent of the U.S. search market in May. Microsoft had 5.89 percent, Yahoo had 19.95 percent, and Google overwhelmed them all with 68.29 percent.

Publisher's Description:

SBMAV Disk Cleaner is an advanced hard disk cleaner for Windows that can safely clean your disk. It is designed to clean a hard drive of various informational trash having no importance, which simply clutters the disks. Using this software, you can search for and delete temporary system files and folders from the system (as well as files left over from other applications), search for and delete incorrect shortcuts (which refer to non-existent files and folders), uninstall software, delete unneeded cookies, and find file duplicates.The software also helps you work with user files: detect and delete old backup copies and documents, perform searches for file duplicates using different parameters, and then detect and delete unnecessary files.

Latest Changes:

* Internal configuration was updated
* "Exit confirmation" option was added
* Other minor changes..

Released: July 4, 2008
Publisher: SBMAV Software
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (All)
Uninstaller?: Yes
Skin Support?: No; Supports XP Themes

Baku allows you to search for system registry errors and unneeded files that can be safelly removed.

Features
Deletes empty folders, 'History' folder contents, 'Recent documents' folder contents, 'Temp' folder contents, temporary internet files, cookies.
Searches Windows log files, shortcuts to missing files and folders and user specified file types.
Registry scan removes unused and obsolete keys, including ActiveX/COM, Application Paths, Fonts, Help files, Icon files, Sound files, Uninstall Programs and Windows Installer.
The registry is automatically backed up before any changes are made.
Implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, to give you confidence that once deleted, your file data is gone forever.

Author: Pmcc
Date: 2008-07-05
Size: 546 KB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
Limitations: Requires Microsoft .Net framework 2.0 or better.

Publisher's Description:

Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Opera.

Released: July 3, 2008
Publisher: Patrick M. Kolla
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP

Becky! is a multi-featured E-mail client specialized for Windows 95/98/NT4.0 and the Internet. You will find many features which are expected for an Internet E-mail software, and some of them would be beyond your expectations.

Author: RimArts, Inc
Date: 2008-07-05
Size: 2.40 MB
License: Shareware $40.00
Requires: Win All

Publisher's Description:

CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in the anime world, and one of the primary design goals is to play as much possible with as little as possible. It attempts to be as unintrusive on your system as possible.

Released: July 2, 2008
Publisher: CCCP-Project
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows 2000/Vista/XP
Uninstaller?: Yes
Skin Support?: No; Supports XP Themes

by Elinor Mills
July 1, 2008 5:37 PM PDT

We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.

Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings reported on by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The alleged thieves made off with about $2 million between October 2007 until March of this year. Officials believe they remotely broke into the back-end computers that approve cash withdrawals and grabbed the PINs as they were being transmitted from the ATMs to the transaction processing computers, which increasingly use Windows, the report says.

by Elinor Mills
June 30, 2008 3:57 PM PDT

The makers of World of Warcraft are offering players of the online role-playing game an optional layer of security in the form of an electronic token device called Blizzard Authenticator designed to prevent unauthorized access to an account.

The lightweight device, which fits on a keyring, provides a unique, one-time six-digit numeric code that the account holder includes when logging in. It is used in addition to a password and account name. It was offered to attendees at the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide invitational in Paris over the weekend and will be available for $6.50 through Blizzard's online store soon, according to the company.

"It's important to us that World of Warcraft offers a safe and enjoyable game environment," Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, said in a news release distributed last week. "One aspect of that is helping players avoid account compromise, so we're pleased to make this additional layer of security available to them."

World of Warcraft users have had their share of security issues. Last year, hackers were luring players to Web sites and surreptitiously downloading keylogging software onto their Windows computers through vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The software allowed the hackers to hijack the victims' WoW accounts and sell off valuable in-game assets.

by Ryan Naraine
June 30th, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

Apple has shipped another Mac OS X monster update to fix a total of 25 documented vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. With Security Update 2008-004, Apple fixes code execution flaws in Launch Services, SMB File Server, System Configuration, VPN and WebKit.

It also incorporates fixes for six highly critical — and previously disclosed — vulnerabilities in Ruby, the popular open-source scripting language. The update also sees a major Tomcat patch that addresses nine vulnerabilities, the most serious of which may lead to a cross-site scripting attack. Here’s the skinny from Apple’s security bulletin:

Alias Manager (CVE-2008-2308): A memory corruption issue exists in the handling of AFP volume mount information in an alias data structure. Resolving an alias containing maliciously crafted volume mount information may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affects Intel-based systems running Mac OS X 10.5.1 or earlier.

CoreTypes (CVE-2008-2309): This update adds .xht and .xhtm files to the system’s list of content types that will be flagged as potentially unsafe under certain circumstances, such as when they are downloaded from a web page. While these content types are not automatically launched, if manually opened they could lead to the execution of a malicious payload.

By Joel Hruska
June 25, 2008 - 06:35PM CT

Stopbadware.org has released its May, 2008 report on badware hosting and the geographical locations from which badware originates. The organization drew its data from Google's "Safe Browsing" initiative, which maintains a database of websites that attempt to phish personal information from users who visit.

As of May, Google had recorded some 213,575 individual websites, which StopBadware then mapped to IP addresses. This data was then cross-referenced to determine the IP block's country of origin. One potential flaw in StopBadware's analysis, however, is that it makes no attempt to differentiate between sites that have been infected by malware and those sites deliberately distributing it.

This makes a certain amount of sense—most antivirus software focuses on stopping attacks, not identifying their purpose—but it would've been useful to see what percentage of the websites identified as hosting badware were active distributors. Such information could be directly useful to anyone attempting to attack or block the source of such material.

StopBadware acknowledges further limitations in its own report—Google identifies sites based on common malware traits, and the list of sites itself is limited to sites Google has scanned, and is thus unlikely to be truly comprehensive. Even given these limitations, Stopbadware.org's study reveals that the data rather decisively points in one direction—East.

June 19, 2008
By Gregg Keizer

Just days after fixing a glitch in one of its enterprise patch-distribution tools, Microsoft Corp. said that another of its patching programs has been blocking last week's security updates. According to a Wednesday post to the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) blog, some Windows client systems that rely on the free WSUS have been unable to retrieve the June 10 patches.

"Computers that have Office 2003 or components of Office 2003 installed fail to run a detection against a WSUS server that has the latest Office updates," said Cecilia Cole, a WSUS program manager. "This prevents the computers from receiving any updates from the WSUS server." This is the second time in a week that Microsoft has told customers that its patch software is unable to deploy the newest updates.

Those updates, which plugged 10 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Bluetooth, were released June 10. Last week, the company's security team warned corporate users of System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007, the successor to System Management Server (SMS) 2003, that clients running SMS 2003 wouldn't obtain the June 10 fixes. The problem, said Microsoft Tuesday when it issued a hotfix, was "additional metadata" associated with Microsoft Office 2003 SP1.

Although Cole also linked the WSUS problem to Office 2003 SP1, she didn't say whether it was the same issue that plagued ConfigMgr. "When computers with products related to Office 2003 communicate with a [WSUS] server, the Web service is unable to process the approvals, resulting in the detection failure," she said in a section of the alert tagged as "Root Cause."

by Garett Rogers
June 29th, 2008 @ 11:27 pm

It’s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy”.

MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two minute episodes that he plans to distribute only on the internet. The cartoon is to be distributed on the AdSense network, though I’m not completely sure how successful this will end up being.

I am guessing that Google will eventually provide a library of content that people can host on their websites — “Cavalcade” is just the beginning. The viewers, if they click on embedded advertisements in the video, will help the website owner, and content creators, generate revenue.

I guess if the content is entertaining enough, people will watch — but for the same reason Google is having trouble monetizing YouTube, I fear this won’t be a huge success either. According to the New York Times, this deal between Google and MacFarlane is one of the largest ever for AdSense.

by Greg Sandoval
June 20, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

news analysis Netflix, don't take half steps with your digital-delivery service. Give your users what they want, and what they want is the latest hit movies. CEO Reed Hastings and his management team have hit a home run--or at least a solid run-scoring triple--by partnering with Roku, the company behind the Netflix Player.

The $100 device enables customers to stream movies from the Web to their TVs. Most reviewers have applauded the device for its low cost, easy setup, and viewing quality (a good Internet connection means no stalling or long download delays). But a month after the Netflix Player went on sale, I haven't read a single review that hasn't deducted points for the lack of films available with Netflix's streaming service. It's the biggest complaint from device owners I've spoken with.

Mr. Hastings, you've done a good job by setting up your "Watch Now" streaming service with 10,000 catalog titles, but you need to go further. Let customers purchase new releases on a per-video basis if they want. Some might resent being asked to pay in addition to their monthly subscriber fees, but if you explain that Hollywood charges more for new releases, your customers will understand. Give us choice.

"Why would anyone feel alienated by this?" said Michael Pachter, a financial analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities. "You can't get a better deal elsewhere. Netflix would be essentially giving you Apple TV without charging you for the Apple box." This is an important comparison because Apple has already begun offering new releases for rent via iTunes.

June 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press. Carlin's jokes constantly pushed accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" -- all of which are more or taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day.

When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail -- and typically unapologetic on his release. A Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying the language was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.

by Greg Sandoval
June 18, 2008 1:01 PM PDT

For a long time, I've said that YouTube could become the Web's supreme ruler of short-form and long-form video should it ever offer feature films and TV shows. The Web's top video-sharing site now appears to be preparing to make such a move. YouTube has begun experimenting with delivering longer videos than the typical 10-minute clips allowed on the site, Fortune magazine reported Wednesday.

On YouTube now are several full-length documentaries and TV shows. (See one of those videos, Howard Buttelman, Daredevil Stuntman, embedded below.) The question is whether Google is making the move too late. Long-form content would mark the latest attempt to help Google cash in on YouTube's massive audience. Two years after acquiring YouTube for $1.65 billion Google still hasn't figured out a way to profit from the site, CEO Eric Schmidt has said several times recently.

Google hasn't yet responded to my inquiries on the Fortune report. While Schmidt has declined to detail why the company is struggling to squeeze profits from YouTube, some of the site's shortcomings as a money maker are obvious. YouTube has become a massive video-hosting service, where people post clips of baby's first steps, a sleeping puppy, or the family picnic. Most don't attract mass audiences. Nevertheless, Google still has to pay the bandwidth costs.

Each minute, more than 10 hours of video are posted to YouTube, which "is now the majority of outbound bandwidth" for Google, Schmidt said last week in an interview with The New Yorker. "We had to retool the network." Bandwidth costs are likely less of a worry than the advertising issues. If YouTube hasn't become a cash cow after three years as the Web's top supplier of short-form, homemade clips, perhaps its time to conclude advertisers just don't like user-generated content--or at least they don't like it enough.

by Zack Whittaker
June 18th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

This seems to fit quite nicely with my “illegal music sharing/copying” post a couple of days ago. Back on the 22nd April 2008, Microsoft gave all those who downloaded music through MSN Music the two fingers, when it announced:

As of August 31st, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers.

MSN Music died a cruel, miserable death in 2006, but those who downloaded music through the service were still allowed to move the files to a new computer, and download a new licence to allow it to play - but timebombing the music until the MSN Music site finally gets cremated… probably 2010-2011, so you’ve got a good while yet. However, Microsoft have double backed on their previous announcement, and announced they’ll continue, past the original 31st August 2008 deadline. From an anonymous source, the email reads:

On April 22, Microsoft notified you that as of August 31st, 2008, we would be changing the level of support for music purchased from MSN Music, and while your existing purchased music would continue to play, you would no longer be able to authorize new PCs and devices to play that music.

By John Rogers
July 3, 2008

Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure.

He was 83. His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he died at his home. Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country.

The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos. "You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown) before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Harmon told the AP in a 1996 interview. "Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon said.

Pinto Colvig, who also provided the voice for Walt Disney's Goofy, was the first Bozo the Clown, a character created by writer-producer Alan W. Livingston for a series of children's records in 1946. Livingston said he came up with the name Bozo after polling several people at Capitol Records.

By Tim Shipman and Philip Sherwell
June 30, 2008 @ 8:16 AM

Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" in peace talks with Mrs Clinton's aides.

The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence. A senior Democrat who worked for Mr Clinton has revealed that he recently told friends Mr Obama could "kiss my ass" in return for his support.

A second source said that the former president has kept his distance because he still does not believe Mr Obama can win the election. Mr Clinton last week issued a tepid statement, through a spokesman, in which he said he "is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States ".

Mr Obama was more effusive at his unity event with Mrs Clinton on Friday, speaking fondly of the absent former president, who attended Nelson Mandela's birthday celebrations in London instead. The candidate told the crowd: "I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party. They have done so much great work. We need them badly."

June 30, 2008

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologist pulled off a daring rescue off the Panhandle -- that of a bear. Officials say a 375-pound male black bear was seen roaming a residential neighborhood, evidently in search of food, near Alligator Point, some 40 miles south of Tallahassee.

The bear was hit with a tranquilizer dart, but he managed to bolt into the Gulf of Mexico before the drugs took effect. At that point, FWC biologist Adam Warwick jumped in to keep the bear, who was some 25 yards offshore, from drowning. He managed to get the bear to shore, and then a backhoe operator helped load the animal onto a truck.

The bear was relocated to Osceola National Forest near Lake City, Fla. On The Early Show Monday, Warwick told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez he wasn't worried about the bear injuring him as much as a sting ray stinging him. "I just wanted to try to get in front of him and keep him from swimming out there and drowning," Warwick says. The bear, he continued, "started to swim, started to make the four-mile swim across the harbor.

And so, I looked at (a colleague) and I said, 'I've got to go out there and stop him.' So, I took off my shirt and shoes, jumped in the water and swam in the direction to head him off and keep him from going into deeper water. Once I did that, I got in front of him, tried to create some splashing and some commotion and tried to get him to go back into shore. But he wasn't having any of that.

By John Timmer
June 27, 2008 - 02:13PM CT

As we noted last month, a number of states have been considering laws that, under the guise of "academic freedom," single out evolution for special criticism. Most of them haven't made it out of the state legislatures, and one that did was promptly vetoed.

But the last of these bills under consideration, the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), was enacted by the signature of Governor Bobby Jindal yesterday. The bill would allow local school boards to approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of scientific theories, allowing poorly-informed board members to stick their communities with Dover-sized legal fees.

The text of the LSEA suggests that it's intended to foster critical thinking, calling on the state Board of Education to "assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories."

Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects "including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning." Oddly, the last item on the list is not the subject of any scientific theory; the remainder are notable for being topics that are the focus of frequent political controversies rather than scientific ones.

June 19, 2008

A Massachusetts high school is facing a pregnancy boom with 17 girls entering summer vacation expecting babies in what some have called a pregnancy pact. Officials at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Mass., are investigating whether half of the teens made a pact to get pregnant during the school year, Time.com reported.

Officials said that beginning last fall a large group of girls started asking the school clinic for pregnancy tests, the site said. "Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," principal Joseph Sullivan told Time.com. The pregnancy rate at the 1,200-student school is four times higher than the previous year, and officials were shocked to learn that men in their 20s had fathered some of the babies, Time.com said.

"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," Sullivan told Time.com. The Gloucester baby boom is forcing this city of 30,000 to grapple with the question of providing easier access to birth control, something this largely Catholic enclave is slow to embrace, the site said. Nurse practitioner Kim Daly administered 150 pregnancy tests to students by May, prompting her and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, to lobby for the prescription of contraceptives regardless of parental consent.

That move drew the ire of Mayor Carolyn Kirk, whose public outcry against the pair led to their resignations last month. "It is very clear that the board [at Northeast Health System of Beverly, which manages the clinic] is not in favor and will not support contraception in the school," Orr told the Boston Globe. "There is an epidemic of teen pregnancy at the school."