Articles from Junior Scholastic (February 20, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A day in the life of a teen Mayor: what is it like to be a high school senior and the Mayor of a small town? JS ask Michael Sessions, one of America s youngest Mayors.	Gershenson, Gabriella	Interview	1100
Document-based questions: interpret an excerpt.		Excerpt	503
Hopping away.			197
Iran's nuclear threat?			282
Lesson plans for student activities.			1613
Life in Laos: visiting this tiny country in Southeast Asia is like going back in time.	Ehrenberg, Steven		980
Mapping the NBA: understanding metropolitan areas.			391
Meet the Mayor.	McCabe, Suzanne	Editorial	92
Prescription drug abuse: teens in danger.	Volkow, Nora D.		243
Prescription drugs: their use and abuse.			1833
Quick quiz.			493
Reading a chart: compare economies.			448
Rocketing into the future.			174
Should the school day start later?			396
The Muckrakers: how a group of writers in the early 20th century exposed troubling cases of corruption in America.	Steffens, Daneet		1240
The role of the news media: imagine the United States without newspapers, TV news, and Internet access. What kind of country might we be living in?	Harvey, Mary		1764
What do you know?			515