The handful of folks who were able to summon up the courage to enter the water were huddled into small groups a few feet offshore and periodically groups of teenage girls would shriek and run from the surf, inciting a mad scramble for the shore by the remaining bathers.

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After spending a few days in Calcutta, Monica and other girls were taken to Pune.

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For the vast majority Jewish education is confined to a few hours a week and ends at age 13, after bar-(or bat-, for girls) mitzva.

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Her own television network, magazine, Academy Award and school for girls in South Africa, to name but a few.

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My brother Jason lives a few blocks down the road with his wife Bridget and three girls.

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And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

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"We have girls in Indycar now, and Danica Patrick has won quite a few races, " she said.

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Girls overtook boys at GCSE level a few years ago, and this year's results, to be published late on Wednesday, are expected to show that they girls are now doing better in almost every subject.

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