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	Young heart patient able to lead near-normal life By Megan White, 12, Kelly Elliott, 14, Laura Williams, 12 MEGAN WHITE, 12; KELLY ELLIOTT, 14; LAURA WILLIAMS, 12 When a baby is born, one of the first things that parents want to do is take pictures and show them to relatives and friends. In Jack Hope's case, that decision was not so simple. Jack was born with "transposition of the great arteries," which means that his blood paths were backward, and they had to be surgically rerouted. "I remember not
	SHOULD ANIMALS BE USED IN MEDICAL TESTS? By Laura Williams, 13, Kelly Elliott, 15, Emily Dwenger, 14 FOR INFORMATION For more information about CHEETA, write P.O. Box 741, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206, or call (317) 254-0503. Not everyone gets on a mailing list that makes a difference in his life. For Dr. Mike Scheeringa, letters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a national animal-protection organization, changed his thinking. At first, he just filed PETA's literature. Eventually,
	Women in the PRIESTHOOD By Laura Williams, 14, Stephanie Kennedy, , Peter Ryan, Pamela Stringer wears a crucifix around her neck and a cross on her shirt. She seems like a respectable woman - a nun, maybe. But the one thing that sticks out is her collar. It is black all around and has a white square in the middle. The Rev. Stringer is a canon - a member of the clergy who serves in a cathedral - with Christ Church Cathedral in Downtown Indianapolis. "People will be starin
	REMEMBER THE CHILDREN By Peter Ryan, , Christina Gleitz, , Joshua Richardt, , Erica Bellamy, 12, Laura Williams, 14 Many kids are not informed about the true story of the Holocaust. Many schools don't teach about it, and parents don't like to bring it up. Remember the Children: Daniel's Story was a traveling exhibit last spring at The Children's Museum to teach children ages 8 and up about the Holocaust - the time from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from Germany killed millions of Jews becaus