Junior Achievement helps schools to explain how Congress makes budget-cutting decisions on the national deficit. For information Call Junior Achievement at (317) 634-3519. Few kids expect to go to their seventh-grade social studies classes and assume the roles of congressmen and congresswomen, laboring over debt and deficit decisions. But for students in central Indiana, these roles may be part

DETAILS Call the Indianapolis Police Explorer Post 435 at (317) 898- 2394, or write 901 North Post Road, Indianapolis, Ind. 46239 Every Wednesday night, police officers spend two hours lecturing about 20 Indianapolis teens. That's because they're part of Boy Scout Explorer Post 435. The program, sponsored by the Indianapolis Police Department, gives 14- to 18-year-olds a firsthand look and han

It's not uncommon for us to lose something like car keys or our wallet, and we can easily laugh and joke that we're crazy and have Alzheimer's disease. But to an Alzheimer's victim, it isn't just losing a belonging, it's also not knowing what purpose the object serves. Alzheimer's disease is a lifestyle of forgetting that becomes routine. Alzheimer's disease, or AD, is the deterioration of br

In 1987, the latest year for which figures are available, there were 22,472 children in mental hospitals in the United States, according to a report published by the National Mental Health Association in 1989. The report was titled the "Invisible Children Project," because the children are shuffled away to institutions and forgotten by society. Children's Express had the opportunity to speak

These are the words that a class at Allisonville Elementary School in Indianapolis tries to live by. Children's Express, curious about how third-graders could save the Earth, interviewed these children late last spring. We found that they upheld the Kids for Saving Earth promise by recycling their discards and using recyclable products, educating adults and children about environmental concer

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

ROUNDTABLE Some worry about having their expensive clothes and shoes stolen. Children's Express visited two Indianapolis schools _ Cold Springs Academy, where uniforms are worn, and Public School 44, where uniforms have been considered. During separate interviews, we found that students from both schools had diverse opinions about uniforms. LEO, 5, (Cold Spring): I like our uniforms because we