Activism of young Hoosiers ranges from hosting meet-ups with conservative candidates to taking photos for Occupy Chicago.

Stephen Gordon, 21, Chicago, says online activism may be down in 2012 because candidates are not reaching out like they did in 2008.

Lots of excitement and pomp at the conventions.

Immigrant parents "are driven by the expectations of their own parents and the fact that their parents have worked so hard to give them good lives,” says Victoria Xiao, 16.

"I felt like I was invincible because I didn’t sleep around. I had never done a drug in my entire life," says Lee, a 24-year-old Indianapolis man recently diagnosed with HIV

“In America, it’s a chronic problem with teenagers not getting enough sleep,” says Dr. Ramindrajit Sufi, a pediatric pulmonologist at St. Vincent Hospital. “If you don’t get enough sleep and you don’t get all those hormones, you end up not having good growth, mentally or physically.”

The book is the perfect chocolate-covered pretzel: crunchy, salty, and sweet at the same time.

To many of us, an allergic reaction may seem like a simple thing: some sneezing or itching, then pop in a Benadryl or a Zyrtec and it’s over. But to the growing number of allergic children in the United States and elsewhere, allergies aren’t so simple. They rarely kill, but they can make the sufferer miserable and sometimes result in a trip to the emergency room.

The Columbine massacre of 1999 turned the world’s attention to violence in U.S. schools. While administrators rushed to install medical detectors and backpack checks, many forms of aggression continued undeterred.

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" is a book suitable for almost any age group and gender. There’s enough action for the average boy, just enough romance for the average girl, and comedy enough for both. It’s also sophisticated enough for adults, but can be easily understood by anyone in elementary school.