31.   Girls can take the series of classes more than once.

32.   How well a family actually functions, however, had a much greater effect on girls than boys, she says, probably because girls take responsibility for relationships.

33.   If her readers are anything like Sterbenz herself, they grew up in an age when girls took sewing and cooking while their brothers took shop.

34.   In a later scene, a girl takes a Furby out of her backpack and plays peek-a-boo with it.

35.   It was sometimes raucous and always in good humor, one roommate recalled, even if the girls did not take kindly to it.

36.   KXXO radio station in Olympia, Wash., is allowing visiting girls to take over the airwaves.

37.   Many girls now take it for granted that athletic opportunities are nearly as plentiful for them as they are for boys.

38.   Maybe this other girl took more offense to these things.

39.   Millions of American women remain addicted to nicotine, and American girls are now taking up the smoking habit at earlier ages and faster rates than boys.

40.   Nancy Lieberman, a former basketball star and now ESPN analyst, said that young girls today take Title IX for granted.