Jason Miller is an average 13-year-old boy. He goes to Indianapolis Public School 59, plays basketball, Nintendo and golf and likes to work on the computer. Isaac, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a senior at a small-town high school. He works part time, writes poetry, listens to music and is on the school's wrestling team. Both of these kids have at least one thing in common: They both lov

In 1987, the latest year for which figures are available, there were 22,472 children in mental hospitals in the United States, according to a report published by the National Mental Health Association in 1989. The report was titled the "Invisible Children Project," because the children are shuffled away to institutions and forgotten by society. Children's Express had the opportunity to speak

Damien Center tries to make life pleasant for people with deadly disease. David Hudson has watched 227 people die of AIDS in the four years he's been at the Damien Center in Downtown Indianapolis. When he first started there as a social worker in 1988, the center had 28 clients. Now, four years later, there are more than 1,000 people, all of whom have been diagnosed as HIV positive. These are

Group advocates building kids' self-esteem, teaching about gun safety, enforcing existing laws and bolstering police agencies. The increase in teen violence has caused the National Rifle Association to set its sights on a new target. Guns do not cause kids to kill, according to Mary Sue Faulkner, media liaison for the National Rifle Association based in Washington, D.C. Rather, violence erupt

Playing computer games also can be therapy for eye disorder, doctor says. A lot of kids play Nintendo almost every day for about two hours. Many of them are unaware that doing so can cause eye strain or cause them to lose feeling in their fingers when trying to do simple tasks. But they're also unaware that playing Nintendo has its benefits, too. Nintendo can also help the player's hand-eye c