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

Bil Keane, the creator of Family Circus, the world's most widely syndicated cartoon, was once told by a teacher: "William Keane, you better stop wasting your time with these cartoons. You'll never be able to make a living drawing funny pictures." But, as Keane said, "I never did stop. . . . I liked to make people laugh." At age 70, he's still making people laugh with the Family Circus, which

Is the government taking away our rights? This was the question Congress wanted to answer when it created the National Competition on the Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1987. Congress wanted to make sure that citizens were informed, so they would know when their rights were being violated. This contest was designed for high school students, who study the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

WTHR (Channel 13) anchorman Tom Cochrun, who won an Emmy Award for exposing the Ku Klux Klan, says he sees a new kind of racism emerging in this country. "I think that what has occurred is that some people, regardless of whether they're black or white or yellow or red, are becoming increasingly captured by the idea of what makes them different as opposed to what makes us all the same."