STEVE LISS FOR TIME
  Keith Trautner, 21
HOMETOWN: McAllen, Texas
BIO: Homeless since last year, Trautner will have a place to sleep for the next six months—the Hidalgo County Jail, where he's doing time for criminal trespass. Then it's back to the streets. His illness diagnosed at 10, he tried a buffet of meds but couldn't stay with them. "I've lost faith in the drugs and the doctors," he says.

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 FROM THE AUG. 19, 2002 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, AUG. 11, 2002

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