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	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
	Lack of playgrounds and equipment result in fitness decline By Paul Bohnert, 12, Claire Hurst, Kelly Zimmerman doesn't know where she would be if there hadn't been a Boys & Girls Club in her neighborhood. Now 19, she says she avoided gangs and other types of trouble by escaping to the club to play sports. Now a decade later, Boys & Girls Clubs of America selected the sophomore at Marietta College in Ohio to be their Youth of the Year and co-chair of the P.L.A.Y. Kids Advisory Board. In
	MESSAGE FROM NIKE: JUST EXERCISE By Paul Bohnert, 12, Claire Hurst, What would the world be like without sports? Would schoolchildren play cards instead of dodgeball? Would playgrounds be full of children standing around eating snacks? Would violence on the streets increase because kids have no other way to vent their energy? Workers at Nike pondered those same questions when they researched the state of kids' fitness in the United States. Here's what they fou
	BRINGING THE FUTURE ON-LINE By Ashley DeGroff, 12, Eric Hauser, , Claire Hurst, We've all seen the commercials and stories about videophones, lasers and the information superhighway. All of it sounds like something out of science fiction, but you've also heard that it will soon be in everyone's home. So when will you be talking to your friends over a videophone? Children's Express spoke to Donna Cunningham, media relations manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a name connect
	To fight poverty, they arm themselves with a wealth of knowledge By Misty Moore, , Monique Morris, , Claire Hurst, To many Americans, poverty seems too much of a problem for them to tackle. Instead, they push it out of their minds and comfort themselves by saying, "What can I do? I'm only one person." Unless you have experienced it, poverty is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, in 1994, more than 16 million children in America had to live with the problem, 159,000 of whom lived in Indiana. A group of