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Puerto Rican youths compare U.S. with their native island

By Ashley Kenton, , Monique Morris, , Anthony Martin, , Michael Seats, , Evan Dunkin,

In September, Children's Express talked with two girls who had moved here from Puerto Rico - Beneliz Santiago, 16, and her sister Odemaris, 13. Although most people know Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean and the majority of people who live there speak Spanish, many people don't know Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, which means it is under the protection of the United States.

The man behind the scenes of `The Lion King'

By Melissa Adams, 14, Paul Bohnert, 12, Evan Dunkin,

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the viewers of The Lion King missed out on 850 million words. Those 850 million were spoken through the 850,000 pictures cut from the movie. Don Hahn, producer of the latest Disney film, explains: "When we talk about a million drawing in these movies, it's really a million drawings, of which 140- to 150,000 are seen on screen when you go see the fi