When your parent is sick, you have to take on more responsibilities. Sometimes you get mad because they throw everything on you at once, but then you realize that you really love them and nothing is more important than they are. Over the years, cancer will occur in three out of every four families, according to the National Institutes of Health. In recent phone interviews, Children's Express

Wayne and Natalie Seybold from Marion, Ind., never thought when they started skating 18 years ago _ on roller skates _ that they would go to the Olympics and perform professionally as ice skaters. But they did. Children's Express interviewed them recently after a performance in Carmel. The brother-sister team started roller skating at ages 9 and 7, respectively, at a roller rink two blocks fro

Rev. King's widow continues his struggle for social justice. BLACK HISTORY MONTH This profile is part of a Children's Express focus on prominent blacks who are helping to make "The Dream" come true. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fought all his life to make a stronger nation. His dream was to make our country equal for all races. After his death, his dream did not die. Coretta Scott King, his

Matt Fultz, 12; Kia Woodson, 12; Lisa Schubert, 11; Tim Ward, 13 If it wasn't for Robert Halgrim, sneakers couldn't jump, pencils couldn't erase and basketballs couldn't bounce. Children would play ball barefoot and writings would go uncorrected. Halgrim, under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison, helped invent synthetic rubber, the substance that makes these things possible. Children's Expres

Barbara Bush would make sure it starts at home. The Rev. Jesse Jackson would make sure everyone has the same amount of money for it. Lamar Alexander would make sure its standards match those of other nations. And H. Dean Evans would make sure it could be held accountable. Four different people, four different views on education. Children's Express attended press conferences in Indianapolis wi

Symbol of civil rights movement stood up for her rights by sitting down. Rosa Parks glided into the noisy room and eased into a folding chair. Her silver hair was piled in a loose braid that wrapped around her head. A pair of glasses, which seemed too big for her face, slid slowly down her nose. This wasn't the Rosa Parks we had pictured. We envisioned a short-tempered ox of a woman _ not a m

TEACH FOR AMERICA For more information, write to: Teach for America, P.O. Box 5114, New York City, N.Y. 10185. For Princeton University graduate Wendy Kopp, her senior thesis not only changed her life but the lives of other graduates. Her proposal not only gave her a career, it sparked change in education. While a student of public policy, Kopp, at 22, wrote a senior thesis suggesting that col