Post-traumatic stress syndrome. Substance abuse. Anorexia. Depression. These illnesses are serious and can put anyone under a psychiatrist's care. Marjorie Cole and Becky Garcia have cared for many patients with these illnesses. Surprisingly, none of their patients has been older than 18 years old. Cole, who has a master's degree in social work, is coordinator of the Adolescent Day Program at

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live at a military academy? To get an idea, Children's Express interviewed four students at Culver Military Academy. RODRIGO QUINTANA, 16, Mexico City: My dad graduated here in 1959, and both of my brothers graduated here. . . . I've been coming here for six summers, and I decided to graduate here as well. TRISTAM MARTIN, 17, Muncie: It was a better op

Against the Odds Author: L.M. Montgomery. Editor: Rea Wilmshurst. Publisher: Bantam Books. Price: $4.50. Pages: 240. Against the Odds by L.M. Montgomery is supposed to be a collection of 18 short stories. There are 18 stories but one plot. Against the Odds should have been called Eighteen Ways to Get Money. These stories are basically about earning money or acquiring possessions. Montgomery ten

On the outside, Culver looks like a quaint college campus. It's about two hours from Indianapolis, and you have to drive through the countryside to get there. The Culver Academies, a military academy for boys and a boarding school for girls, sit on a lake surrounded by woods. The schools, near Plymouth, are brick buildings that have an older look, like they were built in the late 1800s. It lo

When a baby is born, one of the first things parents do is take pictures and show them to relatives and friends. In Francis Smith's case, his parents had other things on their minds. Smith, now 19 years old, was born with a craniofacial disorder called Treacher Collins Syndrome. Treacher Collins is a condition in which the cheekbones and jawbone are underdeveloped. The ears are often abnormal

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I like Indians. I like watching the shows." If you have, than you're like Clark Bishop, an 11-year-old student from Denver who just had an up-close look at ancient Indian life. Clark and five of his classmates traveled to Cortez, Colo., about 400 miles southwest of Denver, to partake of an archaeological Mecca called Crow Canyon.

For over four decades, the injustices of apartheid were felt by the blacks of South Africa. The white minority had complete control of the government. Blacks could not vote; they could not work or go to school with whites. They were forced to live in poverty-ridden townships where as many as 15 people were crammed in a small shack without adequate sanitation or even running water. Their only

By the time most children turn 4 years old, the only hospital trip they may have made is when they received a bad cut, or maybe a minor burn. To have been to the hospital for 10 surgeries by that young age is heart-rending, but that is just what happened to Jennifer Johnson of Midland, Texas. Jennifer, now 13, was born with cleft palate, a type of craniofacial disorder in which the palate (th

Dr. Jane Goodall, well-known for her study of chimpanzees, has loved animals ever since she was a child. In fact, her favorite childhood books were Doctor Doolittle and Tarzan. However, she did think that Tarzan's Jane was inadequate for his jungle adventures. "I felt I'd make a much better mate for Tarzan myself." She grew up amidst stuffed animals. "I have a photograph of me when I was 5 yea