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   Our book and film discussion group read THE HUNGER GAMES by   
   Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, ISBN 978-0-439-02352-8).   
   Reading it did not inspire me to read the rest of the series.   
   Oddly, somewhere in the middle, after some long period of time in   
   the wilderness, I got to wondering about, well, periods.  I mean,   
   I'm all for having girls as heroes of YA books, but somehow the   
   books never deal with how they deal with menstruation when they are   
   in the wilderness for months on end.  There's a lot about food and   
   water, and shelter, and even urination and defecation, but I cannot   
   recall ever seeing menstruation mentioned.  [-ecl]   
      
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                         Mark Leeper   
                         mleeper@optonline.net   
      
      
              ... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject   
              in which we never know what we are talking about,   
              nor whether what we are saying is true.   
   				            --Bertrand Russell   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)