1.   Because some of the conditions were severe, death rates during infancy and childhood were higher in the girls born with defects.

2.   Biologists have long suspected that there are seasonal variations in the ratio of boys to girls born in any population.

3.   Dolores is the youngest of six girls born to Frankie Gauci, a Maltese immigrant who is searching for his fortune in Cardiff, Wales.

4.   Kettering police launched an exhaustive search for the mother at the time, sifting through the records and blood tests of infant girls born at hospitals throughout the area.

5.   Lilo Guggenheim Levine was a year old then, a Jewish girl born in southern Germany soon after Hitler seized control of the Nazi Party.

6.   Mrs. Njoku and her husband have since had another baby, a healthy girl born at Bronx Municipal Hospital.

7.   Running back Adrian Murrell and his wife, Tanya, are the proud parents of a baby girl born Tuesday.

8.   She brought twin sons to the marriage, who were later joined by twin girls born to the couple.

9.   The authorities in Virginia are investigating whether two girls born three years ago at a Charlottesville hospital were deliberately switched and sent home with the wrong parents.

10.   The legacy of this misguided treatment for the girls born of such pregnancies has been well established through studies conducted over more than a quarter-century.