Boys mostly get superheroes and girls get hearts and flowers, but at least Dora is an explorer.

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There is a long waiting list of boys, mostly without dads in the home, and only about 10 active African-American male mentors.

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All through her early teens, she had very obviously liked boys, and they had liked her, mostly because boys like to be liked.

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Many erroneously believe that child soldiers are mostly boys.

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And then, again, there are the smaller feet of the boys and girls, mostly shod in knockabout sneakers.

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But the audience was mostly of street-boys, the sound system failed, and Werrason played only three songs before giving up in disgust.

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Body image is a big part of self-esteem, and though there's certainly body-image dysfunction in boys and men, it remains mostly a female issue.

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The boys' mothers, strong women, mostly pull themselves together, find new men, and move on.

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Cardinal del Monte, Caravaggio's patron, for whom he'd previously painted mostly secular pictures of androgynous boys, got him a commission for his first major religious work.

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Mostly the old school Big Boys of New York.

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Figures published in 2007 (see Condoms or family meals?) suggest, at that time, 15-year-old boys in England and Scotland spent far more time than their European counterparts out with their pals - mostly just hanging around.

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