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TEEN LIVES ON PB & J SANDWICHES W HERE ’ S THE BEEF ? N OT ON B ILLY G ERMAINE ’ S PLATE . N EITHER ARE THE VEGETABLES , POTATOES , CHICKEN OR FISH 1 This 6-foot-tall, 165-pound, 13-year- old boy has eaten nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread since he was a baby. The only illness he’s ever come down with was a 3 cold at the age of 10. ‘I feel great,’ says Billy, who’s on the high school soccer team in Los Angeles. ‘The only thing I wish is that I could eat burgers and fries like my friends. But every time I put anything else but 4 in my mouth, I feel like throwing up. It’s been that way ever since I can remember.’ 2 Every week, Billy’s mom Patty buys five loaves of bread, two 1-pound jars of smooth peanut butter and three jars of grape jelly for her son’s big appetite. ‘It’s 4 a good thing he loves the taste of peanut butter and jelly, otherwise I’d be in real trouble! I’ve tried everything to get him to eat healthy food like vegetables, chicken and fish, but nothing has worked,’ she sighs. ‘When Billy was 6, my husband Jim and I signed him up for a program for children with eating disorders at a nearby hospital. After a third session, they

THE REAL PRICE OF SHOPLIFTING IF YOU ARE THINKING HOW EASY IT WOULD BE…THINK AGAIN. A GROWING NUMBER OF SHOPLIFTING TEENS ARE PAYING A HUGE PRICE FOR THEIR CRIME bottom of my wardrobe and made me What started as fun turned into my again.’ 1 I wish I’d never done it 5 store detective. I started shoplifting as a laugh with my mates. It was just because we were bored. We started off with little things, make-up, sweets, anything you can fit up a sleeve. There were usually four of us, and three would stand around giggling to take the attention away from the one at home, which meant I was getting into stealing. trouble at school from which I was 2 But the more you get away with it, the eventually expelled when I was 13. I got more 12 you feel and before long we into all sorts of trouble in the year after were going to Manchester for the day and that. Looking back, I was trying to rebel stealing from clothes shops. You just and get some attention from all the people found a top without a tag on it and then who didn’t understand me – teachers, wore it under your clothes to walk out of parents and social workers. It was a cry the shop. I got loads of compliments on my for help. new clothes – although I had to hide them 6 from my mum! young to get a job, so the only way I could 3 The day I got caught was the only day get the things I wanted was to steal them. I went shoplifting on my own. I put some And I had enough time to practise. I went shampoo in my bag, but then I lost my on my own: I think you’re less suspicious nerve and walked around the shop for that way. I’d go into Sheffield town centre about 15 minutes trying to pluck up the because it’s so busy. I’d go into clothes courage to leave. When I did, it was just shops and stuff things in my bag or inside like your worst nightmare. They wait until my jacket. I never got caught because you’re outside and then they place their I wasn’t nervous, I guess because I didn’t hand on your shoulder just as you think care. I was best at taking alcohol from you’ve got away with it. supermarkets. I got away with huge bottles 4 They took me to a little room in the of Bacardi, which I would sell on or drink back of the shop and I was crying so much on my own. It seemed so easy I never got they couldn’t get any sense out of me. caught because I wasn’t nervous, I guess They said I could either go to the police or because I didn’t care. ring my mum. I didn’t want to call home,

7 Then, one day, a security guard from the supermarket followed me down the street. He waited until I took the bottle out of my jacket and that’s when he caught me. They took me to the police station and put me in a cell. They took my phone off me, so I lost track of the time, I could have been inside three minutes or three hours. There were prostitutes and junkies in there and I thought: 'This could be me in four

SAVE OR IMPROVE THEIR LIVES . W OULD YOU BACK A SYSTEM THAT AUTOMATICALLY ALLOWS YOUR ORGANS TO BE DONATED AFTER YOUR DEATH ? not helped people to decide to donate 1 The idea of donating organs is probably something most people don’t 5 like to give much thought. Who wants to think about what will happen to their body when they’re gone? However, the shortage of organs has reached critical levels. 2 The shortage has forced some people to go abroad to buy organs on the black market. Last December police uncovered an organ trafficking gang, which involved buying organs from poor 6 people in Brazil for $10,000 and selling them for transplant in South Africa, for around $120,000. Kidneys from live donors are also traded illegally. The reason for the crisis is simple: not enough people have registered to donate, according to Mr Chris Rudge, kidney transplant surgeon at The Royal London Hospital. ‘There’s always been a shortage, which is 21 because transplant surgery is so successful. We know that 90 per cent of people would 7 be willing to donate. They just don’t join the NHS Organ Donor Register.’ 3 Another stumbling block is that when grieving relatives are approached about the prospect of donating the organs of their loved ones, they usually refuse. ‘I don’t know why relatives say no,’ says Mr Rudge, ‘I’m worried that there might be a lack of trust between patients and doctors.’

I shamed my dad on TV! on Queen songs. They contacted the cast and asked them to help, then called my dad and told him he’d been chosen to go to London and spend a day with the actors. He’d have a session with the choreographer, then join the cast for their rehearsal. But in reality, it would all be a set-up and he’d be shamed in front of millions of TV viewers. I couldn’t wait! 4 Amy, 18, was determined to teach her embarrassing dad a lesson… 1 My dad is a massive fan of the rock band Queen! He’s in the fan club, goes to Queen meetings and has every record they ever made! I hate Queen! I’m more into Garage and R 'n' B, but that doesn’t stop Dad from forcing his music onto me and my brother Adam, 16. He’s always telling us to turn our stereos down, but then he goes and puts Queen on full blast! Our house is next to a “He’s still school, and one day I was listening to music in the garden at breaktime obsessed by when Dad switched my CD for Queen!” setting Dad up. Queen. All the kids started head- 5 banging and laughing at me! I felt humiliated but that didn’t bother Dad at all. 2 Gotscha! Then one day in May, I was in the park with my mates when we were approached by a girl from Trouble TV . She said she was researching a new 6 show called Britain’s most embarrassing parents and was looking for teenagers who wanted to 29 their shameful parents! I told her about my dad’s Queen obsession and she agreed that he was really embarrassing and deserved to be set up on TV! 3 So Trouble TV came up with a plan. There’s a musical showing in London called We Will Rock You and it’s based

Some cheerleaders don't wear skirts 1 Cheerleading has been a girls' sport for ages. But as time goes by, it's changing. More and more boys are trying to become members of a cheerleading team. According to a 2002 USA Today article, 5 percent of all cheerleaders are male. In fact, the article says, from the 1890s, when the first yell teams used megaphones at the University of Minnesota, through the 1930s, cheerleading was a mostly male activity until females got involved during World War II. 5 told me it would be very difficult to win a first place at National competitions without any boys on the team. She said: “It is very hard to throw people into the air and catch them while still being synchronized with others on the team. The only reason most boys don't try out is because they think it is a sport where people use pom-poms and say ‘Go Team Go’.” 6 going out for a team, this is what I say: ‘ Go ahead, give your best try, walk right in with your head high, 2 Take me, for example. I started cheerleading this year, my first year at high school. Before that I was doing gymnastics. I found that I was really good at floor exercises and decided to try cheerleading since there are no difficult bars, beams and rings involved. 3 I really like cheerleading, especially the stunts (lifts and throws) and cheers. Being on a cheerleading team gives me a lot of benefits. It gives me something to work for. If my grades get too low, I'll get kicked off the team and I wouldn't want that to happen, so I keep my grades about a ‘B’ average. Another benefit is the chance to earn a scholarship to a good college. If you work hard enough, cheerleading could practically pay for college. S CHOOL IN G LOUCESTER , N EW J ERSEY (USA).