Time magazine published an article last week that the 17 teens at Gloucester High School in Massachusettes who are expecting made a "pregnancy pact" — in which they would get pregnant together and raise their children together. The kicker was that, allegedly, one of the baby's daddies is a 24-year-old homeless guy.

Here's the latest from BostonHerald.com:

Pregnancy pact story unravels

By Jessica Heslam

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Boston Herald Media Reporter

Reporter Jessica Heslam covers the media for the Boston Herald.

The Gloucester teen baby mama drama took two hits yesterday, as a pregnant teen told “Good Morning America” there was no pact at the North Shore school where 17 girls are expecting and the head of the school’s day-care center denied telling a Time magazine reporter that one of her employees had heard of the pact.

Five days after the magazine’s sensational pregnancy pact expose hit the Web, Time reporter Kathleen Kingsbury followed up with a second story on Monday after the Gloucester mayor said there was no evidence of a pact.

Kingsbury wrote that Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the Gloucester High School’s onsite day-care center, told Time on June 13 that “its social worker had heard of the girls’ plan to get pregnant as early as last fall.”

But yesterday, Todd disputed the story and denied any of her employees knew of such plans, according to the Associated Press. “At no time have I stated to anyone that our social worker had knowledge of this. I have stated the opposite,” Todd told the AP. “If anyone would be aware of this pact being real it would be us, because we run the program.”

Kingsbury’s voice mail at work was full yesterday, but Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko said, “We stand by our story.” Todd didn’t return a call to the Herald.

In her original piece, Kingsbury wrote that the girls who made the pact declined to be interviewed.

Last Thursday, Kingsbury told National Public Radio she had “spoken to many” of the teens in the pact and their friends.

But in Monday’s story, Kingsbury seemed to suggest she hadn’t spoken with anyone in the pact.

“None of the rising juniors Time identified as being members of the pact have come forward publicly, but nine Gloucester High students have talked to Time about the girls who decided to get pregnant.

“Without comment from any of the pregnant students themselves, it may be impossible to determine exactly what they agreed to, and when,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, a fawning Chris Cuomo interviewed 17-year-old Lindsey Oliver on “Good Morning America” yesterday. Oliver, who is five months pregnant, is a Gloucester High School student and appeared on the show with the baby’s 20-year-old father.

“There definitely was no pact,” Oliver said. “There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence.”

At the end of the interview, Cuomo told the couple that having a baby was the best thing that ever happened to him. “I hope it’s the same for you,” Cuomo said. Cuomo then whispered, “And little Chloe Jade, we’ll see you soon.”

Gloucester High School Principal Joseph Sullivan, who told Time of the alleged pregnancy pact, didn’t answer the door of his Wakefield home yesterday.

According to an article on PCWorld.com, the new 3G iPhone (available for purchase July 11 — can't wait!) only costs $173 to make. With the price tag at $199, that means Apple is only making a profit of about $26 per phone. I can't even fill up my gas tank with $26. But hey, who am I to nitpick? After breaking my own iPhone, it's only going to cost me half what I originally paid to replace it. Yes!

Most people who know me, know two things about me. I hate thunderstorms and I love football. I love football so much, I wrote a book about it (www.cherishodges.com for more details). I digress, though.

This morning, I was checking out the SI website to see what was going on with my favorite football team(and God's as well, otherwise there wouldn't be a hole in the top of the stadium so that He could get a bird's eye view every Sunday).

What I came across was a gross ass story of greed from the Green Bay Packers.

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Packers worried about NFL's future

Posted: Monday June 23, 2008 07:17AM ET

After a 13-3 regular season, two home playoff games and a final bow from Brett Favre, the Green Bay Packers figured to have a pretty good year from a financial perspective. And they did -- but it wasn't the moneymaking blockbuster some might have expected, a development that reinforced Packers executives' long-term concerns about the financial health of the NFL. The Packers took in about $241 million in operating revenue for the 2007-08 fiscal year that ended March 31, about 10 percent more than the previous year. But thanks to a significant rise in player costs, the team's total operating profit fell more than 37 percent to $21.4 million. "We had a good year," Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said. "But not as strong as you might have anticipated." Packers executives believe the team ranks just outside the league's top 10 most profitable franchises despite playing in its smallest media market. But they're worried about the future after watching the team's player costs skyrocket from $110 million in the 2006-07 fiscal year to $124 million last year. That's why, Murphy said, NFL owners voted in May to opt out of their collective bargaining agreement with the players union. The current agreement remains in effect through the 2010 season, but owners hope to negotiate a new deal that would allow them to keep a bigger chunk of the money the league and teams take in. NFL owners recently said they are paying $4.5 billion to players this year, just under 60 percent of their total revenues.

Somebody ought to tell Murphy that real people in Green Bay and Charlotte have lost less money than they have and are struggling even more than the Packers' organization. With the rising cost of gas, food and every thing else, to hear someone complaining about making a $21.4 million profit is just fucking demented, looney, crackbrained and unbalanced!

From every indication, the late NBC journalist Tim Russert was a decent guy. That ought to be enough. Let his family and friends remember him and celebrate his life in private, and let it rest. The way the mainstream media turned the unexpected death of this really quite average TV newsman into a syrupy, weeklong eulogy was grotesque, as if the national press corps has lost any sense of proportion. Their maudlin spectacle - complete with live TV coverage of mourners passing by Russert's body, lying in state like a deceased President - was a jaw-dropping indication of how self-important many national media figures really are. Maybe they needed to mourn Russert so openly as a counter to the increased recent criticisms for having been Bush's enablers in the run-up to the war. God knows, Russert was one of the worst. His hyped reputation for "tough questioning" rarely applied to interviews with Bush administration officials. When it was time for Russert to speak truth to the White House's power, he instead rolled over, getting up only long enough to pitch another softball question. It was on Russert's show that Cheney said US troops in Iraq "will be greeted as liberators," without a shred of pushback from his host. Yes, he pressed Bush in 2004 about the Preznit's phony reasons for attacking Iraq, but before the invasion, Russert pilloried anyone who questioned the wisdom of those same phony reasons. Afterward, he ridiculed anyone who questioned administration policies of spying on Americans and generally using the Constitution as toilet paper. Russert hammered Barack Obama about comments from Louis Farrakhan, which Obama had not sought out, but, as columnist Alexander Cockburn points out, "when it came to high gasoline prices Russert was meek as a shoeshine boy, lining up the oil execs and tugging his forelock." Now, we can see Russert's death and funeral as the way the national press corps saw it: a chance to redeem themselves by promoting one of their own to journalistic sainthood. After all, Russert was one of the most high-profile members of the club, that small group of overpaid talking heads who see the world as something that revolves around them.