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POPS"Girly" book covers discourage boys--Times, 9/07 The article highlights a couple of books with plots that should appeal to boys. It's a pity they're given bright pink covers. Surely that increases boys' resistance to reading, and especially their resistance to reading books with female protagonists. (For more on that, see: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1494932,00.html and: http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/09/why-women-read-more-than-men-or-not.html
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POPSSex scares NASA Kindof sad really.. i mean, if we are going to send people to mars, and there is a good chance that both men and women may be sent, then we really do have to think about the possibility of sex in space.. i mean.. stuck on a small ship for 6 months.. what else are you going to do?? (besides science crap all the time...)