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Young Runners For two years now, seven-year-old Miray has been training hard with a goal in mind and she says even a little pain can’t slow her down. “Maybe if I had a cramp I would try to run it off I guess, try to run faster to make it go away,” says Miray. While […]

Sleepless Kids It’s 6:53AM, less than 7 hours after going to bed and Sara’s up again. Brushing her teeth, taking her shower and getting ready for a new day. Studies suggest a teenager should get almost 10 hours of sleep every night, but in Sara’s case? “It kinda depends on if I have swim practice […]

Senioritis High school seniors everywhere suffer from a classic case of senioritis, a disease that seems to swarm over second semester seniors every spring. “You start doing other things besides doing your work, and you feel like going out and watching movies,” explains seventeen-year-old Jill. For second semester seniors, the lack of motivation for studies […]

Mandatory PE With activities like tennis and basketball, most kids seem to like physical education. “Cause it’s a way to not have to sit in the classroom the whole day,” says thirteen-year-old Miacatherine. But while popular with students, PE seems to have lost favor with school districts across the country. According to a nationwide survey, […]

LSD In Schools At three to five dollars a hit, LSD is making a comeback among young dealers in school hallways. “I know somebody that brought some one day and was selling it. He brought it in a little tin foil packet,” says eighteen-year-old Tracy. The difficulty LSD presents to parents and school officials is […]

Driven to Distraction “They wanna talk to their passengers, they wanna carry on their conversations, they wanna be cool, they go a little faster.” Officer Charles Forrester Seventeen-year-old Jason Brady was a popular high school wrestler. “He always had this smile like everything’s gonna be OK,” says his friend, eighteen-year-old Jacob. But on March 16, […]