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BBC Breakfast and BBC News 24

Back at the Beeb on Sunday morning talking about new research which shows girls are just as badly behaved as boys, but just in subtler, trickier ways. I described how boys have thrown missiles, stuck ripped cans on my chair, fought and hurled abuse at me, while girls have caused probably more trouble by lying, stirring things up. I explained though that much this stuff had happened earlier on in career and that I was probably better at handling it all now. The article explaining the research is to be found at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=P5EDYJSYKZXLLQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/19/nedu119.xml‘

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