When she was in junior high, she lobbied the principal to take shop class with the boys rather than bake muffins with the girls.

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One of the gay themed tracks on the album is a reworked version of the Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls.

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"The recession is hitting our readers hard but girls still love to shop, " she says.

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When Isaac wrote of working the late shift at the tea shop, parents wrote saying they could never let their girls do that.

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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.

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John about shop girls and dresses and makeup, yet they share an oblique and poetic way of honoring the workaday courage with which people make their way through life and a constant sparkle of humor that manages to be at once sly, subtle, and robust.

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In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.

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