Your heart is pounding. You are crouched behind a small wall, and your adrenaline is through the roof. You take a second to suck up your fear, then you just run. What's going on here? You're playing a game of paintball. Some say it's a game of war, teaching kids violence and hostility. But the teens Y-Press interviewed say it's all in fun, just like any other sport. Players range in age from 12 to

How many times would you imagine a roller coaster designer had ridden on one? Fifty? A hundred? Ron Toomer had never taken a roller-coaster ride before he created his first runaway train for Six Flags Over Texas in 1966. Toomer, 63, is president of Arrow Dynamics in Utah, one of the leading ride-design companies. He started his career as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry. He met

No one thinks about amusement-park safety until an accident happens. Well, almost no one. At Paramount's Kings Island near Cincinnati, Dave Fokey's job is to ensure that the park is safe as well as fun. In an interview with Children's Express at Kings Island, Fokey, the vice president of operations, said he does a complete survey of the park every day to make sure there are no obvious safety

Watch out, television: Video games are homing in on your play time. Since video games were introduced in the 1970s, they have become increasingly popular among kids of every age. A 1994 study reported in the Educational Resources Information Center Center's ERIC Digest online finds that 65 percent of males and 57 percent of females in Grades 7 and 8 played from one to six hours of video games at