New York Times Upfront articles from March 2003

New York Times Upfront archives from March 2003

Quotes.
March 7, 2003... "We grieve because they represented the best in us, because part of us has died." --Rev. LUIS LEON at services attended by President Bush on the day after seven astronauts died aboard the space shuttle Columbia. (The New York Times, Feb....

Teen drivers reflect on dangers. (letters).
March 7, 2003... At my school, we lost two girls in one year to car accidents ("Putting the Brakes on Teen Drivers," 1/10/03). To help solve this problem, the mothers of the gifts who died have started classes to teach proper driving techniques. But I still...

Not so current on current affairs. (letters).
March 7, 2003... After reading "Atlas Shrugs" (1/10/03), I started thinking about young Americans' ignorance of government and the world around us. The little knowledge the average teen has about politics and the world is based on their parents' opinions. We...

U.S. should lean on North Korea. (letters).
March 7, 2003... Iraq is only one of our problems. What about North Korea ("Inside North Korea," 12/13/02)? Yes, yes, a few peace talks for North Korea and around 150 United Nations weapons inspectors for Iraq. North Korea admitted to a nuclear weapons program,...

Don't depend on athletes. (letters).
March 7, 2003... Many Americans have been urging Tiger Woods to boycott the Masters Tournament because the Augusta National Golf Club does not allow women members ("The Athlete as Activist," 1/24/03). Woods should boycott only if he feels inspired to do so. We...

Remembering Civil War women. (letters).
March 7, 2003... I just couldn't believe how many women disguised themselves as men in order to fight in the Civil War ("Secret Warriors: Female Soldiers in the Civil War," 12/13/02). These women soldiers proved themselves to be brave warriors, capable of...

Voices.
March 7, 2003... When I was 6, my parents left their home and families in Mexico and brought me here so I could have a better future. My mom always dreamed for me to become a doctor or a teacher... ... to be somebody important. As I got older, I...

Face-to-face. (Picture).
March 7, 2003... HEADS OF STATE: Plastic masks of Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush lay opposite each other on an assembly line at a Brazilian factory. The factory had to rush to fill orders for the popular masks, in time for Brazil's Carnival, held during the...

Dead time in class. (Education).
March 7, 2003... With the popularity of TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensic-science classes are popping up in hundreds of middle and high schools across the country. Teachers say forensics, the application of science to law, offers a fun way...

Naisu English. (International).
March 7, 2003... Young Japanese love English so much that they're creating a hybrid language, with words like "hippu hangu," (for hip hugging, as in jeans), "shadoh" (eye shadow), and "chou naisu gal" (very nice-looking guy). The Japanese government is...

And the pupils arrive for lunch ... (Society).(retinal scanners used)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2003... A school opening in England this fall plans to use retinal scanners on the cafeteria line to process students' orders. Officials of the Venerable Bede Church of England Aided Secondary School say the devices--which employ lasers to read the...

The record industry gets personal. (Circuits).(distribution of music on internet in violation of copyright laws)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2003... File swappers beware: A federal judge has made it easier for the recording industry to pursue people who download copyrighted material, in January, the judge ordered Verizon Communications to disclose the identity of an Internet subscriber...

Almighty Jen. (Q&A).(Jennifer Aniston)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2003... Jennifer Aniston had a good year in 2002. She received an Emmy for her work on Friends and won critical praise for her role as Janine in The Good Girl. Expect more laughs from Aniston when Bruce Almighty, co-starring Jim Carrey, opens on May...

Flunking lunch: under pressure for money, many schools are offering students unhealthy alternatives to the school-lunch program.
March 7, 2003... A school lunch often looks like an exercise in fat loading, with a supersize soft drink from a vending machine, followed by a candy bar from another machine. It is more in keeping with a meal from a fast-food outlet than what federal guidelines...

Drowning in a sea of debt: more students are taking out college loans, and for greater amounts than ever. Some are asking whether it's worth it.
March 7, 2003... Every so often, when the phones grow quiet, Margot Miles glances at the lawyers working around her and thinks: "I could do that. I would love to do that." She smiles as she envisions life as a lawyer--fighting injustice, changing the...

Preparing for the deluge: Saddam Hussein forced hundreds of thousands to give up their homes and land. Their return could bring a humanitarian crisis.
March 7, 2003... Refugee assistance organizations and the United Nations say war in Iraq could uncork a refugee crisis. It could become one of the largest migrations of people in modern times, a human tide sweeping across the desert and out of the high...

Under U.S. rule: the occupation of Japan; after World War II, American forces set out to rebuild a shattered, defeated nation. (times past).
March 7, 2003... Not long after Japan surrendered to the U.S. and its allies, ending World War II, newspapers ran a photograph of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing together. To American eyes, it looked like a ho-hum snapshot. To the...

Should foreigners be required to register with the government? Males as young as 16 from 23 countries, most with large Muslim populations, have been ordered to report to federal officials. (opinion).
March 7, 2003... YES The U.S. government's initiative to require the registration of male aliens from mostly Muslim countries has prompted an outcry from civil libertarians, ethnic advocacy groups, and the mainstream media. But considering that the U.S. is...

Drawing on the news.(Vending machine profits help pay for band uniforms)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2003... "ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, VENDING MACHINE PROFITS GO TOWARD OVERSIZE UNIFORMS FOR THE MARCHING BAND." Tony Auth * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Universal Press Syndicate I'LL START PAYING FOR YOU COLLEGE EDUCATION WHEN I FINISH PAYING FOR...

Graph exercise: after-school eats add to teenagers' weighty problems.
March 7, 2003... America's school lunches often present students with a tray full of calories, but school lunches are only part of the problem. All teenagers--and virtually all adults--know that meals consumed at school or at home are only part of the daffy...

Upfront quiz show.
March 7, 2003... Use with articles throughout the issue. 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....

My life as a teenage mother. .
March 28, 2003... NARVON, PENNSYLVANIA -- I had just turned 17 and begun my junior year in high school when the pregnancy test came back positive. My pregnancy wasn't planned; it just happened. I was taking birth control pills, but obviously they are not 100...

Strike down three-strikes laws.(Letter to the Editor)
March 28, 2003... It's ridiculous for someone who steals a slice of pizza to get the same sentence as a bank robber ("Three Strikes and You're In For Life," 1/24/03). Give me a break! Jason Schonberg Stanwood, Washington Three-strikes laws are...

Are civil liberties in danger? .(Letter to the Editor)
March 28, 2003... I am an American exchange student just learning about the Department of Homeland Security ("The New Shape of Civil Liberties," 12/13/02). The idea that government is peeking behind our curtains sounds like we are no longer citizens of a free...

Didn't catch that speeder? (Photo).(Illustration)
March 28, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: CARDBOARD COPS: Borrowing a page from their counterparts in other countries, Ukrainian police install their nation's first imitation police car along the road near the tow of Borispol. The police decided to...

Can Africa kick the habit? (Health).(Brief Article)
March 28, 2003... In some parts of Africa, more than 45 percent of adults are smokers, compared with 24 percent in the U.S. Smoke clouds fill many airliners, bars, restaurants, and even hospitals. British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second-largest...

A rich childhood. (Society).(Athina Roussel)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2003... For her 18th birthday this year, Athina Roussel got more than cake. She inherited a fortune estimated at up to $1 billion, making her perhaps the world's richest teen. By contrast, the entire economic output of the African nation of Sierra...

Mall fever. (International).(Russia)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2003... Russian capitalism has spawned a new leisure class in Moscow: mall rats. They arrive on free shuttle buses, play video games for hours, and hang out in the food court. Young Russians have virtually no memory of the shopping agony their parents...

In memoriam: Dolly the sheep. (Science).(Brief Article)
March 28, 2003... Dolly, the sheep who made history as the first clone from a mammal, and gave rise to fears of human cloning, died at her home in Edinburgh, Scotland, last month after developing a lung Infection. She was 6. Dolly, who like many sheep went...

Daredevil Spy. (Q&A).(Jennifer Garner)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 28, 2003... West Virginia native Jennifer Garner, star of the recent blockbuster Daredevil, is best known for playing Sydney Bristow on the spy series Alias. UPFRONT spoke to Garner about her years before she battled bad guys. As a child, what did you...

Being poor in the land of plenty: almost 33 million Americans are poor--a third of them children under 18. In a world dominated by mall culture, what's it like for teens who must struggle to make ends meet? .(Cover Story)
March 28, 2003... In the last fringes of daylight, 13-year-old Marcus Anthony turns somersaults with his brothers on a mattress in their front yard. Marcus lives in Pembroke Township, a small Illinois farming community about an hour's drive south of Chicago....

The fight for peace.
March 28, 2003... As the U.S. funneled troops and supplies to the Middle East for war with Iraq, Billy Noseworthy, 18, and Erica Lillquist, 17, took up positions of their own back home--firmly on the antiwar side. But the pair adopted their viewpoints for...

"We know full well the dangers": West Point cadets talk about their commitment and war with Iraq.
March 28, 2003... For more than 200 years, the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point has trained future Army officers. There are about 4,000 students, known as cadets, at the college; 15 percent are women. Cadets are required to complete five...

Japan: adrift in dangerous seas: the world's second-largest economy is suffering from lack of jobs, a shrinking population, and the biggest debt in the world.
March 28, 2003... When Tomoaki Isogai graduated from Akirudai High School last March, he didn't have much to look forward to. "I looked for jobs, but I stopped after a month because I could not find the job that I wanted," he says. Twenty years ago, during...

The world is my game room: video games are moving online, where the limits of competition are practically nil. (arts).
March 28, 2003... Kurtis Melby used to spend hours playing video games by himself in the basement of his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But competing against a computer holds only so much excitement, he says. Now Melby, 14, plays against hundreds of other...

"The mother of all battles": in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, a U.S.-led coalition ousted Iraq from Kuwait. But the conflict didn't end there. (times past).
March 28, 2003... The U.S. Marines entering Kuwait City on February 27, 1991, didn't know what to expect. Kuwait had been overrun seven months earlier by Iraqi troops. Saddam Hussein's soldiers, some of whom had a formidable reputation, had looted and destroyed...

Should public schools celebrate religious holidays? Easter and Passover are just around the corner. Is it educational for public schools to celebrate these holidays, or unconstitutional? (opinion).
March 28, 2003... YES From kindergarten to high school, I've been fortunate enough to be exposed to a wide array of cultures. This often included participating in the religious holidays celebrated by my classmates: everything from Easter egg hunts to menorah...

Drawing on the news.
March 28, 2003... "SIR, IT SEEMS WE'VE COVERED UP EVERY WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION EXCEPT ONE!" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joe Heller * Green Bay Press Gazette THE 21st CENTURY MAGINOT LINE Larry Wright * The Detroit News * Caglecartoons.com ...

Families on welfare: the number of caseloads creeps up. (Graph Exercise).
March 28, 2003... In the mid 1990s, there was a great push by state governments to get people off welfare, defined as government-assistance programs for those in financial need. Some reforms required recipients to participate in job training or other self-help...

Upfront quiz show.
March 28, 2003... Use with articles throughout the issue. 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....