New York Times Upfront articles from January 2007

New York Times Upfront archives from January 2007

Photos of Martian.(news & TRENDS)(Photograph)
January 15, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Photos of Martian gullies taken four years apart "give the strongest evidence to date that water still, flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," NASA announced last month. The tater photos show what...

Who gets naming rights?(news & TRENDS)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... If John Smith marries Mary Bakalaka and wishes to become John Bakalaka, should that cost him money? Under California law, a woman who changes her last name when she marries doesn't have to petition the courts. But, according to a lawsuit filed...

Beyond Superman and Batman.(news & TRENDS)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... "It's time we got teenage girls reading comics," says Karen Berger of DC Comics. In May, DC--best-known for Superman and Batman--will introduce Minx, a line of graphic novels aimed at young adult female readers. The stories will be far removed...

Football, the Navajo way.(LANGUAGE)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... "The guy who throws the football gave it to the guy who runs with it and a guy on the other team caught up to him and threw him down...." So goes a typical radio call for the New Mexico State University Aggies, as translated from the Language...

Numbers in the news.(news & TRENDS)
January 15, 2007... 19 billion Number of catalogues mailed out by retail companies in 2005, up from 17 billion in 2002. SOURCE: BUSINESS WEEK 25 million Estimated number of Bibles purchased by Americans in 2005--twice as many as the most recent...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... 'It could have far-reaching implications for both defense and homeland security.' * A RESEARCH SCIENTIST at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, part of a team of scientists who claim that they have trained honeybees to sniff out...

China's Wikipedia watch.(THE WEB)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Wikipedia has been a challenge for China and its 100,000 Internet censors. At times, it seems as though the government can't make up its mind: It intermittently blocks and unblocks both the English and Chinese versions of the user-generated...

Putting the web to work for Darfur.(Q & A)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Nick Anderson, 17, of Conway, Mass., co-founded Dollars for Darfur (www.savedarfur.org/dollarsfordarfur), a nationwide fund-raising competition among high schools. It is using sites like Facebook and MySpace to raise awareness of the crisis in...

Far from home.(EDUCATION)(Statistical table)
January 15, 2007... The number of foreign students studying in the U.S. has started to rebound from the decline in the years after 9/11, according to preliminary figures (not shown) for the current school year. The number of American students studying abroad has...

Seduced by snacks? Not you.(PSYCHOLOGY)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Do you reach mindlessly into the chip bowl or eat more when you're with a friend who's pigging out? "No way!" you say. But Brian Wansink, who heads the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, suspects otherwise. "People will swear they aren't...

A symbol of hope comes down.(THE HOLOCAUST)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Anne Frank's diary entry from Feb. 23, 1944, reads: "From my favorite spot on the floor I took at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine... while this lasts I cannot be unhappy." Now, the tree that...

Fair play? James Madison University's decision to eliminate 10 sports teams--mostly men's--to comply with a federal "gender equity" law is the latest chapter in the debate over the fairness of Title IX.(NATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... After an especially good meet in September, Dave Rinker, the coach of James Madison University's men's and women's cross-country teams, gathered his athletes and shared the bad news. The university would be eliminating men's cross country and...

It's a good thing citizens aren't tested: the new test for becoming a U.S. citizen is a lot harder. Could the average American pass?(NATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... To become an American citizen, you need to pass an exam. It's been this way for a while, but the test just got harder. In the new exam, the emphasis will shift from facts to concepts. People will be asked, for example, not only what the...

New congress, old issues: power shifted on Capitol Hill when Democrats took control of both the House and Senate in November's midterm elections. But the issues facing Congress and the nation are just as tough as they were last year.(NATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... With Democratic majorities expected in both houses of Congress, the speeches and press conferences are likely to sound quite different from those before the November elections, even though many of the issues the new group of lawmakers will be...

Is it time to bring back the draft? As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on and recruiting volunteers gets harder, the idea of a military draft seems less far-fetched.(NATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... With American forces bogged down in Iraq and the military struggling to meet its commitments around the globe, some lawmakers and military experts are asking a very controversial question: Is it time to bring back the draft? It's been more...

Darfur: the genocide continues: more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced during three years of ethnic conflict in Darfur. Now, the violence is spreading and threatening the stability of neighboring countries.(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Death is no stranger in Tawila, Sudan, where thousands of Darfurians are crowded into a sprawling, makeshift refugee camp. Malaria and diarrhea course through the camp, picking off the children first, then the elderly. And the conflict between...

NHI's Vietnam: Vietnam now has one of the world's fastest-growing economies. For young people like Nguyen Song Nhi, 16, the "American War" is ancient history; their focus is on the future.(INTERNATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... When Nguyen Song Nhi's parents were teenagers in North Vietnam, the main image of the United States was of warplanes raining bombs from the skies. But ask 16-year-old Nhi what America means to her, and the first thing she thinks of is...

How the Middle East got that way: the seeds of much of the conflict in the Mideast today were planted by Britain and its Allies after World War I, when they carved up the remains of the Ottoman Empire.(TIMES PAST)
January 15, 2007... "Car Bomb Kills 56 in Baghdad" "Israel Hits Gaza After Palestinian Rocket Attacks" "Lebanese Official Critical of Syria Is Assassinated" This small sampling of recent headlines about turmoil in the Middle East--and countless others...

Should the U.S. raise the gas tax? Most Americans agree the U.S. needs to reduce its dependence on foreign oil; the question is how to do it.(DEBATE)
January 15, 2007... YES Now that we have lived with $3.50-a-gallon gas, $3 seems far less outrageous. That gives us an opportunity to permanently depress demand for gas by locking in higher gas prices with a tax. Let's put a floor at $3 a gallon. Every penny...

A homecoming in Havanna: Elena Sheppard didn't think much about her Cuban heritage until she visited the country her mother left decades earlier.(VOICES)
January 15, 2007... There is the glow of a love story surrounding my family's memories of Cuba; It is the story of the island my mother's family fled in 1960 when she was just 8 years old. My grandmother and her friends talk loudly of their previously perfect...

Katrina's refugees 'stuck in limbo'.(OPINION)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... They took like internment camps. The long rows of identical white trailers sit on flat, grim, barren expanses of land that are enclosed by metal fences. Armed guards are stationed at the entrances around the crock. More than a year after the...

Micro-loans are good, Wal-Mart is even better.(OPINION)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... When comes to alleviating Third World poverty, micro-loans have helped millions of people start smart businesses, tike setting eggs at the local market. But there's a limit to how much money people can make setting eggs to one another. Michael...

Thriving in the global economy: what China and the U.S. must do.(OPINION)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... I am not ready to cede the 21st century to China. No question, China has led an impressive effort to end illiteracy, greatly increasing its number of high school, grads and new universities. But rigor and competence, without freedom, will take...

Letter from the editor.
January 15, 2007... OUR COVER STORY EXPLORES the continuing tragedy of Darfur, where ethnic conflict has killed 200,000 Sudanese and caused a massive humanitarian crisis. AS PART OF OUR "Coming of Age" series, we examine the new Vietnam through the eyes of...

The military draft.(GRAPH > NATIONAL)
January 15, 2007... Debate over the draft in America is as old as the nation itself. In 1789, President George Washington asked Congress to pass a draft law, but lawmakers turned him down. The first drafts in the U.S. occurred during the Civil War...

Game show.(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... 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...