New York Times Upfront articles from April 2005

New York Times Upfront archives from April 2005

Petty Officer 2nd Class Barbera Silkwood, a Navy journalist assigned to a battalion of Seabees.(news & TRENDS)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Petty Officer 2nd Class Barbera Silkwood, a Navy journalist assigned to a battalion of Seabees (who handle construction for the Navy), slithered through muddy water and under barbed wire in March as she...

Blogger breaks a barrier.(THE WEB)(Garrett M. Graff)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Garrett M. Graff, 23, has scored a point for the blogosphere: He has become the first blogger (writer of a Web log) to obtain a daily White House press pass. Last month, he was admitted to the White House press briefing as editor of FishbowIDC,...

Surgery by joystick?(MEDICINE)(minimally invasive surgery)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Those thousands of hours spent playing video games might be worth something after all. According to Dr. James Clarence Rosser Jr., chief of minimally invasive surgery at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center, the complex manual dexterity...

Oval office pay scale.(MONEY)(for presidents)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... In 1789, the first U.S. Congress voted to pay President George Washington an annual salary of $25,000. Washington, a wealthy Virginia plantation owner, declined the money. (The only other President to refuse a salary was John F. Kennedy,...

Numbers in the news.(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... 0 Women who were eligible to vote in February in Saudi Arabia's first public elections since 1963. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 36% Percentage of high school students surveyed who said that the media should get "government approval"...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)
April 18, 2005... 'They will be received with open arms. When the gas goes, you can make beans, boil vegetables, or heat up milk for the baby.' --A Cuban housewife on Fidel Castro's promise that every household could buy an electric rice cooker at a...

Pictures good enough to eat.(FOOD)(eat paper at Moto, Chicago)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Homaro Cantu's sushi rolls look a lot like the ones prepared by other chefs: small disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But Cantu's sushi often contains no fish, and it is...

Why chemistry is like cooking.(Q&A)(interview with David Bauer from Hunter College High Schoo)(Interview)
April 18, 2005... David Bauer, a 17-year-old senior at Hunter College High School in New York, won the top prize of a $100,000 college scholarship in this year's Intel Science Talent Search. Inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Bauer worked on a new method...

Mole sets a speed record.(SCIENCE)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... A star-nosed mole can put away 10 mouthful-size earthworm chunks in 2.3 seconds (0.23 seconds per chunk), making it the world's fastest-eating mammal.

Protecting Mandela's name.(SOUTH AFRICA)(Nelson Mandela)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Don MacRobert, a lawyer in Johannesburg, wants to protect the name of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first post-apartheid President. Mandela, now 86 and retired, allows his name to be used by several charities. But there have also been the...

'All-New' Martha isn't all Martha.(MEDIA)(Martha Stewart)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Newsweek's March 7 cover featured what looked like a photo of Martha Stewart. But it was actually an image combining a photo of her face and one of a model's body. The idea, say Newsweek editors, was to portray Stewart as she might look when...

At West Point, doubts bow to duty: cadets who may soon be fighting in Iraq have no illusions about the war or its popularity at home.(NATIONAL)
April 18, 2005... For most Americans, Iraq is very far away. But for the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, in New York State--and particularly for the seniors who will soon be officers in Iraq--the war intrudes daily. West Point has added...

Stuck in time: as Cubans grow restless after 46 years of Fidel Castro's rule, the government is cracking down on those it considers its enemies.(Cover Story)
April 18, 2005... Their numbers are small. They protest in silence. On good days, they are a dozen, this group of women, dressed all in white. For the last two years, they have gathered most Sundays outside a church on one of Havana's most elegant boulevards....

1905: Einstein's 'Miracle Year': how an unknown scientist rewrote the rules of physics, and in the process, changed the world forever.(TIMES PAST)(Biography)
April 18, 2005... One hundred years ago, a young patent clerk in Switzerland named Albert Einstein began publishing his revolutionary theories of how the physical universe worked, and the world hasn't been the same since. Einstein was 26 and unknown in 1905...

No talking behind the wheel: laws restricting drivers' use of cell phones are now in effect in some areas, but their value is in dispute.(TECHNOLOGY)
April 18, 2005... Christina Arnold was pulled over in Washington, D.C., last summer for driving while talking on her cell phone without a hands-free device. Although Arnold, 29, managed to get off with just a warning, she took the officer's advice and bought a...

Who belongs on a Wheaties box?(OPINION)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... You'd think the steroids controversy would cripple baseball, but the sport is more popular than ever. The most significant sign of its popularity came in March when Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, signed a two-year deal with Major League...

Why the environmental movement is in trouble.(OPINION)
April 18, 2005... The U.S. environmental movement is unable to win on even its top priorities, even though it has the advantage of mostly being right. The main problem is that environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so...

The consequences of failing to reform social security.(OPINION)
April 18, 2005... At this point, there's no better than a one-in-four chance that some form of Social Security reform will be passed this year. There's no sign that Republicans will bend on their insistence on private accounts or Democrats on their opposition....

Should the U.S. end its Cuba embargo? The 43-year-old embargo has severely restricted trade and travel between the two nations. Its value and impact are hotly disputed.(DEBATE)
April 18, 2005... YES The United States is the only nation that still has a trade embargo against Cuba. After four decades, it's clear that our policy has failed to achieve its goals: the end of Fidel Castro's regime and a peaceful transition to democracy....

Cartoons.
April 18, 2005... Bruce Beattie * Daytona Beach (Florida) News-Journal * Copley News Service Brian Gable * The Globe and Mail (Toronto) * Cartoon and Writers Syndicate Michael Ramirez * Los Angeles Times * Copley News Service Stuart Carlson *...

Letter from the editor.
April 18, 2005... Our cover story takes a look at Cuba today, and at the long, difficult relationship the United States has had with Cuba since Fidel Castro's takeover in 1959. Ginger Thompson, who covers Cuba for The Times as Mexico City bureau chief, reports...