New York Times Upfront articles

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The last known jaguar.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Macho B)(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: THE LAST KNOWN JAGUAR in the United States, Macho B, died in March. Jaguars once roamed much of the American Southwest, but with the arrival of cattle ranchers in the 19th century, they had been hunted to extinction in the U.S. by the early 1960s. The few...

A telescope to the past.(ASTRONOMY)(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei built his first telescope--and began to change the way people viewed the universe. In honor of the anniversary, one of Galileo's telescopes [shown above] is on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia through the summer, (It's one of two that...

Where the jobs are.(CAREERS)(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Although the recession has sent the unemployment rate in the U.S. to a 25-year-high of 8.5 percent, Fortune magazine says there are jobs out there if you know where to look. Experts advise job seekers to avoid industries tied to the mortgage crisis, like construction and finance. Some of the...

Who grew it?(TECHNOLOGY)(Doleorganic.com )(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It can be a tong way from farm to table, but the Internet is making it easier for consumers to find out where their food came from--even which farmers were involved. Buyers of Dote organic bananas can now enter a bar-code number from the banana's sticker on...

Ancient foot, modern walk.(ANTHROPOLOGY)(Homo erectus )(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Until. now, no footprint trail, had ever been associated with early members of our long-legged genus Homo. But prints recently uncovered near lake Turkana in northern Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago, an ancestral, species, most likely Homo erectus,...