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	UPROOTED, HERDED AND IMPRISONED By Robin Andrews, 15, Adam Maksl, , George Srour, During World War II, 120,000 West Coast Japanese-Americans were imprisoned by the United States. The government's reasoning was that if Japan tried to invade the United States, it would do so on the West Coast. Because many Japanese-Americans lived there, the government feared that some were spies and would help Japan. These Japanese-Americans were allowed to bring only the things they really
	Baseball saved internment camp detainees By Robin Andrews, 15, Adam Maksl, A family tree is a unique way of looking at your family's history. It allows you to visualize your family's past. When Ken Mochizuki looked at his family tree, he saw a tragic event that few young people knew about. After looking over family photo albums and magazine articles that had been given to him, he felt the need to tell the nation how his family and other Japanese-American families we
	When it comes to getting sleep, it's more than just counting sheep By Adam Maksl, , Stephanie Dodge, , Claire Hurst, Do you have trouble sleeping? Snoring? Sleepwalking? Staying awake during the day? Most kids don't realize that sleep can be a problem. Usually it's someone else in the house who's not sleeping because of your problem. Dr. Deborah Givan knows all about this. She's the director of the Children's Sleep Disorders Center at Riley Hospital for Children. It is the only sleep clinic for children in t
	Teacher of the Year has the challenge of a lifetime By Adam Maksl, , Shana Cheatham, 21 In a time when many people consider the quality of education to have decayed, when parents, students and even teachers have little hope for schools, a woman named Sandy McBrayer is named U.S. Teacher of the Year. She teaches "unattended children" (whom most people refer to as homeless) in San Diego. Her job there isn't an easy one. Children there are like any other - uninterested in going to