There is a legend that goes something like this: A long time ago, sailors who were away from home for a long time would see manatees and think they were mermaids. They must have been really homesick to mistake the homely manatee for a woman. Perhaps at the time there were plenty of manatees, but today that's not the case. Manatees _ marine mammals that have the face of an elephant, a tail lik

WTHR (Channel 13) anchorman Tom Cochrun, who won an Emmy Award for exposing the Ku Klux Klan, says he sees a new kind of racism emerging in this country. "I think that what has occurred is that some people, regardless of whether they're black or white or yellow or red, are becoming increasingly captured by the idea of what makes them different as opposed to what makes us all the same."

Children's Express recognizes the fact that kids, although they cannot vote, need to have a say and understand the issues in this election, both at the national and state levels. That is why we brought 10 central Indiana students from seven schools together to discuss three issues with the Republican nominee for governor, Attorney General Linley Pearson. Children's Express staff members also

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CHILDREN'S EXPRESS Starring Winston Egbert Author: Francine Pascal. Pages: 74. Price: $2.75. Publisher: Bantam Skylark. Starring Winston Egbert, No. 13 in the Sweet Valley Kids series, is an entertaining book about a group of second-graders in Sweet Valley, Calif. The book tells the story of how Jessica Wakefield reacts when Winston Egbert gets the starring role in the Thanksgiving Day program