New York Times Upfront articles from December 2004

New York Times Upfront archives from December 2004

Indian women display their hands.(news & Trends)
December 13, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Indian women display their hands, decorated with mehendi, or henna, on the eve of the Karva Chauth festival in Octoer in the northern Indian city of Chandigarth. During this annual Hindu event, married women...

Amazing car tricks.(Technology)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Could there be a parallel parking universe where cars guide themselves into tight spaces? Will automobiles ever feature Internet access, TV, and karaoke? These options already exist in Europe and Japan. Many Audi models sold in Europe enable...

Numbers in the news.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... 102 Minutes per day the average working woman spends caring for family; working men average 48. SOURCE: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 180,184 Total number of U.S. National Guard and Armed Forces Reserve personnel that had been...

Dinos with down coats.(Science)(carnosaurs)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Fossils of the earliest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex--those mighty predators among dinosaurs--have been found with clear impressions of downy feathers from head to tail. These "protofeathers" are considered precursors to the feathers...

Their lips are seated.(Soccer)(no coaching on Saturdays)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Parents accustomed to stalking along the sidelines sit quietly in their folding chairs, white those used to screaming at officials and yelling at their kids sip coffee. It's just another Silent Saturday--a tradition begun five years ago when a...

Noted & quoted.(Soundbites)
December 13, 2004... 'I have to live somewhere and this is my home.' --Raisa Stradayeva, 62, a resident of Svetilovichi, a village in Belarus that activists say is still, contaminated by radiation, 18 years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine...

Reality TV goes to school.(Media)(The Boarding School of Chevagnes, television series)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... They didn't eat worms, bunk with lizards, or build grass huts on a desert island. This was survival of a different kind: Twelve girls and 12 boys, ages 14 to 16, were plunged into the harsh French public school system of 50 years ago. The...

A passion for dance, a tolerance for pain.(Q&A)(Jordan Laris Cohen at American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive Training program)(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 13, 2004... Last summer, 14-year-old Jordan Laris Cohen of San Diego packed four pairs of black tights and six pairs of ballet shoes, and headed to New York. He had won a scholarship to American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive Training program. Laris...

Putting on the pounds.(Health)(obesity)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Supersizing seems to be prevailing over diet crazes: American men and women are on average about 25 pounds heavier than they were in 1960.

How the nose knows a rose.(Science)(Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck gets 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... People who smell, a flower in childhood are able to recognize its fragrance years later and recall memories associated with it. But how? The two American scientists who solved this riddle have received the 2004 Nobel. Prize in Physiology and...

Do penny prices make cents?(E-business)(online auctions at eBay Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Have you ever wondered about all the items that show up on eBay for a penny? For example, during the week of October 11, customers could forgo auctions and immediately buy cell phones, battery chargers, stuffed toys, toe rings, cubic zirconia,...

Soldiering on: six months after losing his right leg in Iraq, U.S. Army Sergeant Hilbert Caesar wheeled across the finish line of the New York City Marathon.(National)
December 13, 2004... On November 7, the streets of New York flowed with a head-bobbing stream of resolve: More than 36,000 competitors pushed themselves for 26.2 miles, by foot or by wheel, to the Central Park finish line of the New York Marathon. Among these...

Not such little women: many of America's greatest heroines were young girls who were wise beyond their years.(National)
December 13, 2004... A common complaint today is that children--and girls in particular--grow up too fast. Some blame Hollywood, the Internet, or societal pressures for robbing young women of their youthful innocence. But as Gail Collins, the editorial page editor...

An issue of identity: African and Caribbean immigration to the U.S. is spurring a debate about who qualifies as 'African-American'.(National)
December 13, 2004... Abdulaziz Kamus, who is 48 years old and Ethiopian by birth, has lived in the United States for 20 years and is now an American citizen. So when the is asked to characterize his race, the answer seems perfectly clear to him: He is...

Are Islam & democracy compatible? Democracy is taking hold in some parts of the Muslim world. But in others, especially the Middle East, the prospects are unclear.(Cover Story)
December 13, 2004... Were democracy only a matter of holding elections, the countries of the Islamic world might be considered models of democracy. Over the past year, people in Iran, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, Indonesia, and Turkey have been able to vote for city...

1979: a glimmer of peace: Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty, spawning hopes of a broader Mideast solution.(Times Past)
December 13, 2004... On March 26, 1979, some 1,500 guests on the White House lawn watched the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, put their signatures on the Arabic, Hebrew, and English versions of a peace treaty...

Cloning: a first amendment right: some legal, experts maintain that scientific research is protected by the same constitutional guarantees as freedom of speech.(Essay)
December 13, 2004... This election year, the debate over cloning technology became a circus, and hardly anybody noticed the gorilla hiding in the tent: It's just possible that the First Amendment will protect researchers who want to perform cloning research. ...

What if a nuclear weapon exploded in Times Square?(Brief Article)(Column)
December 13, 2004... If a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon--a midget even smaller than the one that destroyed Hiroshima--exploded in Times Square on a weekday, some 500,000 people would be killed. Could this happen? Unfortunately, it could--and many experts believe that...

Take a ride to exurbia: it's a new world out there.(Brief Article)(Column)
December 13, 2004... It is in the booming exurbs--communities that tie beyond cities and suburbs--where George Bush racked up the vote totals that allowed him to retain the presidency. Experts say that America's population is decentralizing faster than any other...

A legacy of voids & visions.(Brief Article)(Column)
December 13, 2004... Yasir Arafat left a void of readership. He also left a void of achievement. It is that second void that really matters, considering that he led the Palestinian movement for some 40 years. Pardon me if I don't join in the chorus about how his...

'I've started to care about my future'.(Voices)
December 13, 2004... I go to an alternative school called the Kingsley Wilderness Project in Clarksburg, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The school has about 30 students, all boys. Most of us would be classified as problem kids, or screw-ups: people who couldn't...

Cartoons.(Comic)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... CAN YOU SAVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR WORLD PEACE? HAVE YOU SETTLED ON A RUNNING MATE FOR 2008? ISN'T IT TIME BUSH COMPROMISED WITH YOU? ACTUALLY... I HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN SWORN IN YET. HE'S SOOOOOOOO...

Where the Muslims are.(educational literature)
December 13, 2004... Events in the Middle East are closely covered by the American news media. Yet many Americans still confuse the terms "Arab" and "Muslim," believing that they are pretty much the same thing. In fact, Arab refers to an ethnic group--like...

Game show.(Jeopardy)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Use with articles identified. Divide the class into 2-4 teams. Read the statements below, which are answers to questions. In this game, modeled after the TV show Jeopardy!, students must give their answers in the form of questions....