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In case you missed it: teen birth rate, healthy lunchroom cuisine, bone marrow drive

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The teen birth rate is back on the rise in many working-class Massachusetts communities, mirroring a trend that has seen teen birth rates rise around the country for the first time in 15 years.

As schools try to navigate a newly health-conscious world that heaps scorn on the buckets of lard and cans of mystery meat that once were mainstay ingredients of cafeteria cooking, they have to find clever ways to come up with nutritious meals that students will want to eat.

harold%20seals%20and%20jones%27s%20widow%20karen%20150.bmp Friends and family of Arthur Jones gathered for a bone marrow registration drive in his memory Saturday, put on by members of the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge in Dorchester with the assistance of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. (Harold Sealls, left, registers as Jones's widow, Karen, sits at right) Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for various local media, including The Boston Globe, and later served as a spokesman for former governor Michael S. Dukakis, former mayor Raymond L. Flynn and former president Bill Clinton, had chronic lymphocytic leukemia and died in October 2006. Minority patients have less of a chance of finding a match because minority groups make up only about a quarter of those who have registered as marrow donors, according to the National Marrow Donor Program.

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