Brian worked at a school where his dog, Powder, found a young adult female buried in the rubble three to four days.

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And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.

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In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married. (Young single adult women were, as we'll see, as rare as female action heroes at this point in history.) More than 30 percent of American wives were holding down jobs, including almost 40 percent of wives with school-age children.

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