I n most track competitions, runners know when the race starts, either because they stand at the starting line or hear the starting gun. But in the One America 500 Festival Mini Marathon, more than 25,000 runners are corralled like cattle, most standing blocks away from the starting line. Many know that the race has started only because the crowd shuffles forward. If the runner is an adolescent, t

E ach year, many eighth-graders have to make a decision that will affect the next four years of their lives: Where will they go to high school? Several factors must be considered, such as the size of the school, distance from home, friends' plans, extracurricular interests, parents' wishes and academic challenges. Y-Press talked to four eighth-graders from St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic School o