New York Times Upfront articles from April 2006

New York Times Upfront archives from April 2006

Three life-size sculptures of George Washington will go on display at Mount Vernon, Washington's Virginia estate, this fall.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Three life-size sculptures of George Washington will go on display at Mount Vernon, Washington's Virginia estate, this fall. Washington is depicted at age 19 (left); at 45 (top right), when he took command...

Cracking down on PDA.(public displays of affection)(police officers descend young couples)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Stick-wielding police officers descended on young couples sitting in a park in Meerut, India, this past December. Accompanied by TV news cameras, they yanked the couples by their necks and slapped them. The nationally televised incident, which...

84.(earned high school diploma)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Age of Phillip Chauke of South Africa, who recently earned his high school diploma. He had grown up illiterate under apartheid. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

61%.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 3, 2006... Percentage of Americans who say the Danish newspaper that printed Muslim cartoons acted irresponsibly. (Seep. 8.) SOURCE: GALLUP POLL

4,900.(marketing)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Number of food-related commercials seen yearly by the average American child. Many of the ads use popular cartoon characters to sell junk food and soft drinks. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

30%.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 3, 2006... Percentage of Americans who say they go online "just for fun"; 38 percent do so mainly for searches. SOURCE: PEW INTERNET AND AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT

10,000.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 3, 2006... Average number of bags lost daily by U.S. airlines in 2005--a 23 percent increase over 2004. SOURCE: USA TODAY

Sniffing out cancer.(usage of dogs to detect lung cancer )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... A clinic in California claims that it has trained five dogs to detect lung cancer in patients' breath samples with 99 percent accuracy. The Pine Street Foundation in San Anselmo borrowed the dogs from their owners and Guide Dogs for the Blind...

If robots ever rule.(books)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Will we eventually face the day when robots rise up against humanity? If so, a new book by Daniel H. Wilson may come in handy. In How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Wilson offers detailed, often-humorous advice on hand-to-hand combat with a...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)
April 3, 2006... 'The public perceives the press not as watchdogs but as attack dogs.' --Ari Fleischer, President Bush's former press secretary, on the public's reaction to recent heated exchanges at the White House between reporters and administration...

Where games are homework.(universities offer video games undergraduate programs)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Three decades after bursting into arcades and living rooms, video games are taking their place in college and university classrooms. A small but growing group of schools, from the University of Southern California to the University of...

A hobby that got him buzzing.(words with Busy Bee Enterprises's Timothy Johnson )(Interview)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... At 13, Timothy Johnson of Littleton, Colo., bought his first beehive and began beekeeping as a hobby. One year later, he started Busy Bee Enterprises, a business that sells all-natural honey and beeswax products. Upfront spoke to Johnson, 17, a...

Wimpy winter weather.(CLIMATE)
April 3, 2006... While January plunged much of Europe and Russia into a deep freeze, most of the United States had the warmest January on record.

Ken's back--with a makeover.(Mattel Inc. introduces new Ken look)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Now, after a heart-wrenching, two-year separation, Barbie and Ken are back together. Perhaps it's because of Ken's new took: Gone are his outdated swimming trunks and dull T-shirts. Ken now sports a motorcycle jacket and cargo pants, and his...

A porsche for perfect attendance?(students get rewards on attending everyday)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Across the U.S., schools have begun to offer students rewards just for showing up every day: iPods, laptops, DVDs, grocery money for their families, even cars. Some experts say these rewards parallel the working world, where financial...

The cartoon controversy hits home: the uproar over the Danish cartoons that satirized Muhammad has come to American college campuses, pitting free speech against cultural sensitivity.
April 3, 2006... By the time the University of Illinois student newspaper republished cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad on February 9, the images had already provoked a worldwide fury marked by violent protests in several countries. On the university's...

Google's China problem: U.S. technology companies come under fire for helping China police the internet.(police investigates with email address from the technology companies)
April 3, 2006... China's Internet censors are hard at work these days, shutting down blogs the government doesn't like and filtering Web sites and e-mail messages for banned words and phrases like "democracy" and "free Tibet." It's all part of an effort by...

Broken jails broken justice: thousands of prisoners across Africa wait years for their day in court, all the white riving in unspeakably horrible conditions.(Cover story)
April 3, 2006... Since Nov. 10, 1999, Lackson Sikayenera has been incarcerated in Maula Prison in central Malawi. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul....

1971: the Pentagon Papers: when The Times published a secret study of the war in Vietnam, it touched off a constitutional battle with the government. How far does freedom of the press go?
April 3, 2006... The front-page article that most interested President Richard M. Nixon when he picked up the Sunday New York Times on June 13,1971, concerned his daughter Tricia, who had been married the day before at the White House. Nixon paid less...

Inside the mummy's medicine chest.(Ancient Egyptians expertised in preserving the dead)
April 3, 2006... Ancient Egyptians have long been known for their expertise in preserving the dead. But a 4,000-year-old papyrus scroll on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York indicates that they were also remarkably advanced when it came to...

Should the U.S. end birthright citizenship: Congress is considering a bill that would end the longtime practice of granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S.
April 3, 2006... YES Currently, the United States grants citizenship automatically to every person born on our soil--including children of legal noncitizens, tourists, and even illegal immigrants. (Children of foreign diplomats are the exception.) The U.S....

In Iraq, a poll of U.S. troops.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... A recent poll shows that U.S. troops want out of Iraq--and soon. It asked 944 service members, "How long should U.S. troops stay in Iraq?" Only 23 percent backed President Bush's position that they should stay as long as necessary; 72 percent...

Hollywood gets a lesson in 'supply & demand.'.(evaluation of movie tickets prices)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... If you go to the movies on a Wednesday, there's no line to buy tickets, and the theater is almost empty. Your ticket costs $8. Go back on the weekend: You stand in a long line, and the only seats are in the third row. It's a hot ticket, yet it...

Why those cartoons enraged the Muslim world.(offense to religions)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... I have no doubt the Danish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad have caused real. offense to many Muslims. But there's something in the worldwide Muslim reaction that is excessive, and suggests that something else is at work. The explosion of...

Cartoons.(Cartoon)
April 3, 2006... Clay Bennett * The Christian Science Monitor [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IRAQ IS COMING TOGETHER. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bob Gorrell * Gorrellart.com NO, I DON'T USE STEROIDS, OK? NOW WOULD YOU LET ME GET BACK TO BATTING...

Letter fromt the editor.(Letter to the editor)
April 3, 2006... Our cover story looks at the breakdown of the system of justice across much of Africa, where prisoners can wait years for their trials, while being held in horrible conditions. In two other stories, we see how events abroad reverberate at...

Game show.
April 3, 2006... Use with articles identified. The statements are answers to questions (modeled after the TV show Jeopardy!). Students must answer in the form of questions. Divide the class into teams. Read the statements. Call on the first...

Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
April 24, 2006... In our cover story, we look at the power of images, and how they're used to sell not only products but ideas. We've chosen 14 posters from a recent book, covering a wide range of topics. They may make you smile, or make you angry, but that's...

AIDS in America.(GRAPH > NATIONAL)
April 24, 2006... The AIDS epidemic has been one of the most devastating in modern times, with a worldwide death toll of more than 25 million so far. The disease today is most widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, but no country or region is immune and the epidemic...

Drug abuse in social settings: a serious risk for teens.(TEACHER'S EDITION)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Dear Teacher: Teens are social beings. As a teacher who works with adolescents, you definitely won't find that shocking! Probably more than anyone, you understand how important it is for teens to feel like they fit in--that they're part of...

Heads up: drugs in social settings: a quiz.
April 24, 2006... See how much you learned from the article by answering the questions below. 1. What percentage of 10th-grade students say they've used illicit drugs in the last year? a. 50 percent b. nearly 30 percent c. 15 percent d....

Heads up: teens and drug abuse--understanding the statistics.
April 24, 2006... Introduction: 2005 Monitoring the Future Survey * One of scientists' main tools for understanding drug-abuse trends among teens is the annual Monitoring the Future survey. In this survey, approximately 50,000 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade...

Game show.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Use with articles identified. The statements are answers to questions [modeled after the TV show Jeopardy]. Students must answer in the form of questions. Divide the class into teams. Read the statements. Call on the first...

Statements to read.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... IS IRAQ COMING APART? -- 1. Iraq's capital. 2. Year the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq. 3. Majority sect in Iraq. 4. Founder of the Muslim religion. 5. Kind of war that could erupt in Iraq. 1981: THE AIDS EPIDEMIC...

Migrant salt workers, known as Agarias, carry bundles of firewood over the cracked-mud bed of a dried-up sea in the Indian state of Gujarat.(news & TRENDS)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Migrant salt workers, known as Agarias, carry bundles of firewood over the crackedmud bed of a dried-up sea in the Indian state of Gujarat. Around 25,000 Agaria families are in debt to salt merchants, who advance them money in return for their...

Hairy helping hands.(research on chimpanzees)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... No other primate shows the same degree of helpfulness to others as humans. But recent studies at the Max Planck Institute in Germany suggest that chimpanzees are also a highly cooperative species. Researchers placed some food outside a cage...

4,411.(students are taking Scholastic Assessment Test)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Estimated number of students taking the SAT in October 2005 whose scores were up to 450 points tower than they should have been, due to scoring errors. SOURCE! THE NEW YORK TIMES

Twenty-five million.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 24, 2006... Approximate number of mice used each year in scientific research. A genetically altered mouse can cost up to $100,000. SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

22,000.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 24, 2006... Number of visas granted in 2005 to foreign orphans being adopted by U.S. families; there were fewer than 9,000 in 1995. SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE

52%.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 24, 2006... Percentage of fans who say Barry Bonds's records should be erased if Major League Baseball officials conclude he used steroids. SOURCE: USA TODAY

64.79.(NUMBERS IN THE NEWS)
April 24, 2006... Length, in feet, of the world's longest pencil, on display at Faber-Castell's pencil factory in Malaysia. SOURCE: GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS

Rosy but rancid?(supermarkets using carbon monoxide to keep meat red)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... If meat in the supermarket looks rosier than it used to, the reason is that a growing number of markets are selling meat in airtight packages treated with carbon monoxide to keep it looking red for weeks. This "modified atmosphere packaging"...

Wireless tapping.(TECHNOLOGY)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Piggybacking, which is the usually unauthorized tapping into someone else's wireless Internet connection, is no longer limited to hackers. Ordinarily upstanding people are tapping in, and many say it doesn't feet Like theft because it doesn't...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... 'Someday we won't have any snow. We won't be Eskimos.' --A hunter in Nain, an Inuit community in northeast Canada. Inuit reports of warmer winters and shrinking ice floes in the Arctic are attracting the attention of scientists studying...

Live from Marrakesh.(Mohammad Jabiri work is telling stories)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Every day, Mohammad Jabiri sets up shop in the main square of Marrakesh, Morocco. His work requires little equipment--just a small stool, some color illustrations, and his imagination. For the past 40 years, Jabiri has been a professional...

There's science behind the magic.(Jason Latimer )(Interview)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Jason Latimer of Agoura Hills, Calif., has been wowing crowds with his magic since he was 12 years old. Now 25, the world-champion illusionist is using his undergraduate studies in mathematics, economics, and physics from the University of...

Third-world hunger.(children with malnutrition)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... A World Bank study shows that nearly one third of the children under age 5 in the developing world are either underweight or stunted by malnutrition. Malnourished Children UNDERWEIGHT STUNTED GROWTH AFRICA ...

Coughing & sneezing for cash.(MEDICINE)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... It pays to catch a co(d in Cardiff. The Welsh capital is home to the Common Cold Center, which researches and tests cold and flu treatments for companies like Procter & Gamble and Pfizer. Based at the University of Cardiff, the tempter has a...

Striking many poses.(Self-portraits )(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Self-portraits have become a kind of fork art for the digital age, especially among young people. Framing themselves at arm's length, teenagers snap their own pictures and pass the camera to friends at school, e-mail the images, or upload them...

Are there civil rights in cyberspace? Internet sites can legally post discriminatory, false, or libelous information from users. Is it time to better police the Web?(NATIONAL)
April 24, 2006... You can find ads for just about anything on Craigslist, an enormous online forum where people post classifieds for everything from garage sales and concert tickets, to job openings and lost dogs. Last July, Craigslist ran an ad for an apartment...

Is Iraq coming apart? Will the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites drive Iraq into civil war--and take the rest of the Middle East with it?(INTERNATIONAL)
April 24, 2006... Anmar Abed Khalaf is a 24-year-old university student in Baghdad who wanted to marry his girlfriend. But despite several attempts, he has been rejected by her family because he is a Shiite and she is a Sunni. Abed Khalaf, who lives in a Baghdad...

The art of dissent: when it comes to trying to sway public opinion, provocative images can be potent tools.(Cover story)
April 24, 2006... A picture, it's often said, is worth a thousand words. Images can be powerful tools for selling a product, as the ad agencies along Madison Avenue well know. They can also help sell ideas, as politicians, protesters, and anybody who wants to...

Wal Mart: good or evil?(OPINION)
April 24, 2006... How did a store become such a hot topic of national debate? Well, War-Mart isn't just any store. Since Sam Walton opened his first shop in Rogers, Ark., in 1962, it has grown into the world's largest retailer and the largest private employer in...

A day in the life of a teen: decisions at every turn.(HEADS UP REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY)
April 24, 2006... On the way to school ... Wonder if I should go tonight? Connect with friends in between classes Homeroom...Should I finish studying for the quiz instead of talking with friends Break for lunch ... Should I invite the new...

1981: the AIDS epidemic begins: since AIDS first made headlines 25 years ago this summer, 25 million people have died, and the toll is still rising.(TIMES PAST)
April 24, 2006... When I was a doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York in the late 1970s, my colleagues and I were baffled by a small number of patients who suffered strange, inexplicable ailments. Some had come down with uncommon infections; others had...

Should the 22nd Amendment be repealed? Added to the Constitution in the aftermath of F.D.R.'s election to a fourth term, the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms.(DEBATE)
April 24, 2006... YES The 22nd Amendment is antidemocratic. Term limits deny the nation the opportunity to re-elect successful presidents. If Americans are pleased with the performance of their chief executive, why force him out because of a fear of power?...

TV: Darfur vs. Michael Jackson.(media coverage)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... With several hundred thousand people murdered in Darfur and 2 million homeless, the best hope for those stilt alive is American outrage. The only way the White House will move on Darfur is if it is flooded with calls from the public--and that...

This soccer team is now brought to you by red bull.(Red Bull North America Inc. purchased Major League Soccer)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Sports fans have long been accustomed to stadiums taking on corporate brand names. Consider the Washington Redskins' FedEx Field. But the recent purchase of a Major League Soccer team by the energy-drink company Red Bull has taken naming rights...

Why the U.S. will thrive in a more competitive world.(Column)
April 24, 2006... Everywhere I go, people tell me China and India are going to blow by us in the coming decades. They've got the hunger. They've got the people. We're a tired old power, destined to fade. But the facts and figures tell a different story. Has the...

Cartoons.(Comic)(Cartoon)
April 24, 2006... Clay Bennett * The Christian Science Monitor John Branch * San Antonio Express-News * North America Syndicate Steve Breen * The San Diego Union-Tribune * Copley News Service Steve Kelley * The Times-Picayune [New Orleans] Gary...