Xpress, the Coolest Section of the St. Petersburg Times, is the home for features, news and views of interest to young readers. Most of the work in Xpress, which appears on Mondays in Floridian, is produced by the Times' X-Team. The team of journalists ages 9-17 from around the Tampa Bay area is selected every year at the end of the school year to serve during the following school term. The current team of 12 was chosen out of 150 applicants. Watch for X-Team application forms in Xpress during the month of May.
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X-files
No Potato Heads allowed
By BRIAN ORLOFF
Published April 19, 2004
Can you draw? Wanna prove it? Unleash your inner Picasso at www.mrpicassohead.com where you can construct a head that would make Mona Lisa jealous. Much like that faceless potato of Milton-Bradley fame, you build the face piece by piece. Each part of the face has nine variations, detailed in Picasso's distinctive cubistic style. Plus, you can zoom in and out and rotate. Don't forget to check out the gallery; it's magnifico!
Turn off that TV, now!
Here's how kids ages 10 to 17 spent the last hour before "lights out," according to a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation:
Watching television - 44 percent
Doing homework - 10 percent
Using the computer - 7 percent
Talking on the phone - 5 percent
Getting the 411 on teen health
Too often, teen health sites don't give real answers to questions and problems. But www.teenhealthfx.com doesn't fall into this category. This Web site offers solid facts and concrete advice on anything and everything you can think of - and even things you can't. There are no sugar-coated answers, either. Plus, it's great to sift through the thousands of questions posted there. Check out the parts of the Web site on emotional health, questions of the month, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and many more interesting topics - everything you'll ever need to know about teen health.
Xpress quote
"It's not true that blonds are vapid, but Owen doesn't do anything to dispel that myth."
Ben Stiller on Starsky & Hutch co-star Owen Wilson in the New York Daily News.
Compiled by Brian Orloff, Times Correspondent
Information from Times wires was used in this report.
