BBC news - fail

This article made me rather angry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7462934.stm

It only mentions that there has been an increase in abortions, nowhere does it state what has happened to the statistics on teen pregnancy. Has teen pregnancy also increased? Or has it decreased? In my view of the world if there are more teens having abortions and less having babies then that is a good thing. Granted not as good as using birth control effectively in the first place, but still better than an increase in the number of teenage mothers.

It's almost as annoying as the size of your brain makes you gay article I saw earlier this week.

John Ogilby and the taste of his times By Katherine S Van Eerde

I find biographies rather dull. This book is a quite long look at a famous printer/publisher of the 17th century. He started as a dancer, ran a theatre in Ireland, lived through the civil wars, and curried favour with the Restoration, he printed translations of the classics, Virgil, Homer, Aesop and the Bible, and went on to produce a series of atlas for countries around the world. Without a doubt an interesting character, living in interesting times, but 180 page book about him becomes quite tedious and dull half way through. I’m sure there will be plenty of useful information to be gleaned for my Book of the Month, but I can’t think why anyone else would really be interested in reading this.

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