11.   As puberty takes hold, girls begin to lose the self-confidence that once helped them excel in math and science.

12.   Barker said adolescent girls begin to have a sexual energy, and the teen idol provides an object for their energy.

13.   A Queens judge ruled Tuesday that the girls could begin unsupervised weekend visits with the Thornes for five hours a day, starting this weekend.

14.   But if a girl begins running the floor in basketball and hitting the cutoff person in softball, then there is hope.

15.   But the age when girls begin to menstruate, which can be a year or more after puberty starts, has not changed appreciably, she said.

16.   But Title IX also opened the door to the locker room, and girls began streaming through.

17.   I still remember how shocked I was when I first read that girls were beginning to diet in the fifth grade.

18.   In Morocco, twice as many girls began first grade when a food-ration program was started, according to the program.

19.   It helped that the little girls began to grow up and emerge from their houses.

20.   Ms. Armstrong decided to visit the doctor when the girls began missing long stretches of school.