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Dr. Mike Riera Michael Riera, Ph.D., is the director of counseling at a private high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and a frequent speaker to groups of parents, students, and educators. He appears daily as as the host of the "Life in Progress" segment of Trackers, a show for teens ages 16-20 that airs Monday through Friday, 4-6 p.m. (and again 11 p.m.-1 a.m.) on the Oxygen cable TV network. (Check out his Q&A for teens on the Trackers website.) He is the author of Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers ($14) and Surviving High School (for teens - $10.95). You can order both books by phone from Celestial Arts Publishing, 1-800-841-2665. Visa, M/C accepted. Or order online at Mike's own home page His newest book, Field Guide to the American Teenager: 2000, co-authored with Joe DiPrisco, Ph.D., will be published in September 2000 by Perseus Books. Mike's favorite link for parents The Diary Project with writings from hundreds of young people on all aspects of teenage life Bullets courtesy of