New York Times Upfront articles from March 2004

New York Times Upfront archives from March 2004

Five hundred pairs of combat boots.(news & trends)
March 8, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Five hundred pairs of combat boots, in the plaza next to the Federal Building in Chicago, served for a day as a memorial to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. The boots were placed in the plaza in January by the...

Glowing fish, not reviews.(news & trends)(genetically engineered zebra fish)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... The nation's first genetically engineered pet has gone on sale: a tiny zebra fish with a gene from a sea coral that makes it red in normal light and causes it to glow under ultraviolet light. Some stores report good sales of the GloFish. Others...

Numbers in the news.(news & trends)
March 8, 2004... 1960 The last year that a northern politician won the presidency (John F. Kennedy of Mass.) SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 39.7% Percentage of people age 18 to 24 who don't read a newspaper, according to a recent poll ...

In Brazil, school pays.(Education)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... Many poor Brazilian families send their children to work. So the government has been giving small cash payments to the poor (about $24 a month) in exchange for keeping their children in school and taking them for medical checkups. By 2006, the...

Shut up and mingle.(Parties)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... As fads go, here's one that isn't expected to make a lot of noise: the quiet party. Paul Rebhan, a New York artist, started the phenomenon with a musician friend after searching in vain for a bar in New York quiet enough to support actual...

Noted & quoted.(Soundbites)
March 8, 2004... 'In order to avoid making it a tourist attraction or a shrine, we believe the best course of action is to eliminate it.' --Robert Cargie of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, after the unit sought permission to destroy the hole in...

Lewis and Clark's lost necklace.(Americana)
March 8, 2004... A rare Indian artifact from Lewis and Clark's fabled exploration of the American West turned up recently, after disappearing for more than a century. The bearclaw necklace, probably given to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by an Indian chief...

Fourteen years, five books (and counting).(Q&A)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 8, 2004... Talk about extracurricular activities. When 14-year-old Sondra Clark of Bellingham, Wash., is not writing a book--she's written five so far--she's helping to raise money for AIDS orphans in Africa. UPFRONT got a glimpse of where she gets the...

Budget realities.(Dollars And Cents)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... President Bush's budget for the 2005 fiscal year totals $2.4 trillion, Of that, 54 percent goes to programs, like Social Security, mandated by law. Military spending accounts for almost 18 percent of the total. REVENUES $2.036 trillion ...

The politics of Web searches.(Technology)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... A few months ago, typing the phrase "miserable failure" into Google produced the White House's official biography of President Bush. Shortly thereafter, the same search yielded links to Senator Hillary Clinton of New York. This online battle is...

Filling hockey's gaps.(Sports)
March 8, 2004... Disdain for the dental effects of rough play on the ice has long been the norm in the National Hockey League. For decades, hockey players all seemed to have big gaps in their smiles--and dental, damage was known as "spittin' Chiclets." But...

Between two homes and two peoples: as a boy, Muhammad Hussein--the son of a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother--confronted Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. Today, he's a sergeant in the Israeli army.(International)(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... At first glance, the photograph of an anonymous helmeted soldier in combat gear, crouching in the sand, M-16 rifle in hand, looked like another of the countless images published in Israeli newspapers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--this...

Separate is not equal: fifty years ago this May, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in the nation's public schools was unconstitutional. It was a major victory in the long struggle for civil rights.
March 8, 2004... Linda Brown, 7, was all set to enter the third grade in September 1950. But when her father, Oliver, brought her to register at the Sumner School, seven blocks from their house in Topeka, Kan., they were turned away. The Sumner School, they...

Poetic justice: Thurgood Marshall gets even: unable to attend the law school of his choice, he went on to lead the crusade against segregation.
March 8, 2004... In 1930, Thurgood Marshall a lanky honors graduate fresh from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, realized that the law school he hoped to attend did not accept black students. Though the University of Maryland School of Law was just blocks...

And fifty years later ... students from across the country talk about race in their high schools--and in their lives.(National)
March 8, 2004... Nat Gale, 17 Hartford Public High School Hartford, Conn. "I am the only American-born white person in my senior class at Hartford High. I don't pay it any mind. My circle of friends is so integrated--Asian, African-Americans,...

The empty heartland: job and population losses are hitting the dozen states of the rural Great Plains hard. But some towns are finding ways to fight back.(National)
March 8, 2004... When deal comes to a small town, the school is usually the last thing to go. A place can lose its bank, its tavern, its grocery store, its shoe shop. But when the school closes, you might as well put a fork in it. So it was in Hardy, one...

New life for the long dead: they've long been Egyptology's stepchildren, but mummies are now attracting greater attention.(The Ancient World)
March 8, 2004... Nasry Iskander, after dedicating a lifetime to preserving the mummies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, boils his work down to one straightforward thought. "It is much better to work with the dead," he says. "They give you less trouble." In...

Sharing the burden of the war in Iraq.(Perspectives)
March 8, 2004... Here's what has bothered me most about how this war is being conducted: The whole burden is being borne by a small cadre of Americans--the soldiers, their families, and reservists--and the test of us are just sailing along, as if it has nothing...

Today's competition in space: keen, not mean.(Perspectives)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... More than curiosity or altruism or even profit, what drives discovery is the spirit of competition. In the 20th century, stung by the triumph of the Soviet Union putting Sputnik into orbit, President Kennedy said that America had "tossed its...

A threat on the home front?(Perspectives)(Brief Article)
March 8, 2004... If we're serious about confronting threats to our way of life, we don't have to hunt them in the caves of Afghanistan. We can find a serious threat in the White House as the Bush administration charts its fiscal policy. Under Bush, surpluses...

A teenage Republican finds the proper fit.(Voices)
March 8, 2004... Debate class was nothing like this. When I stepped onto the stage for the public debate between the Teenage Republicans and a group of Democrats from my high school, I felt nervous and shaky despite the piles of notes and weeks of research....

Were the Bush tax cuts good for the economy? President Bush's tax cuts have become a big issue in the presidential election. Two economists debate their effectiveness.(Debate)
March 8, 2004... YES President Bush's tax policies have improved the U.S. economy and helped make America more competitive in the global economy. By lowering tax rates on work, savings, investment, and entrepreneurship, the President has helped reinvigorate the...

Cartoons.
March 8, 2004... "THERE'S NOTHING TO EAT!" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I FEEL YOUR LOVE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WELCOME ABOARD MR. FENWICK, HOW'S THAT AUDIT GOING? AND THIS MUST BE YOUR FOURTH WIFE, DEBBIE... WHOA, THIS COMPUTER-ASSISTED...

Great Plains population growth lags behind rest of the U.S.(Graph Exercise)
March 8, 2004... For more than 70 years, people in rural areas of the Great Plains states have been leaving home for greener pastures. But the exodus has accelerated in recent years as the region's economy has suffered from the loss of family farms and the...

Upfront quiz 1.
March 8, 2004... DIRECTIONS: Circle the letter next to the best answer. 1. In 1804, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent on their journey by President a George Washington. b John Adams. c Thomas Jefferson. d James...

Upfront quiz show.
March 8, 2004... 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....

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2004... In a map of Canada and the U.S. in the February 2 issue, Wyoming was incorrectly identified as Colorado

Charlie, a 104-year-old macaw once owned by Winston Churchill, sits on the shoulder of Sylvia Martin in Reigate, England, in January.(News & Trends)
March 22, 2004... Charlie, a 104-year-old macaw once owned by Winston Churchill, sits on the shoulder of Sylvia Martin in Reigate, England, in January. The bird, believed to be Britain's oldest, wows visitors by cursing Adolf Hitler. Churchill, Britain's Prime...

Cloud juice for sale.(Business)(rainwater)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Ever tasted a raindrop and wondered, Why doesn't someone bottle this stuff? Well, Richard Heinichen, a 57-year-old former blacksmith from Dripping Springs, Tex., does, calling it Rain Water. Heinichen fills 1,500 bottles a day with the "cloud...

Numbers in the news.
March 22, 2004... 17% decline in per capita orange juice consumption in the last five years. Orange growers blame low-carb diets Source: The Miami Herald 1 in 20 proportion of baby boomers [those born between 1946 and 1964] expected by demographers to...

Fighting over Robin Hood's murky roots.(England)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... For centuries, Robin Hood has been the property of Nottinghamshire in England--land of Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Castle, and one evil sheriff. But now Yorkshire, a neighboring county, in a grab for bragging rights, is laying claim to the...

Misspellings on eBay.(Technology)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Some eBay users are making the most of spelling gaffes. When the clueless or careless auction off "labtop computers," "camras," and "sapphires," they do get bidders, but rarely very many. Some buyers troll for bad spellings, purchasing items...

Noted & quoted.(Soundbites)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... They have become very good at bringing the country very bad Republicans. --Ralph Nader, independent candidate for president, on what he sees as the Democrats' failure to champion liberal causes and offer an alternative to Republicans. (The...

Conan in the dog house.(Television)(Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on the Conan O'Brien show)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... It's not often that a puppet creates an international incident. But Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a regular on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, putted it off. When O'Brien was in Canada in February to tape several shows, Triumph visited the...

Turning gift cards into cold hard cash.(Q&A)(Certificateswap.com)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 22, 2004... Cameron Johnson, 19, has been starting businesses since he was 9. His latest, Certificateswap.com, allows people to buy and sell unwanted gift certificates. UPFRONT talked to Johnson about his new venture. What's the idea behind...

Mad cow testing.(Food Safety)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Does the U.S. do enough testing for mad cow disease? In December, a cow in Washington State was found with the disease. The Department of Agriculture says testing is rigorous enough, but critics disagree. Several of the countries that...

Positively elementary discoveries.(Chemistry)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... U.S. and Russian scientists say they have created two new chemical elements. The new elements, numbers 113 and 115 on the periodic table, were created very briefly fast summer in a particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia, and their existence must...

Lip-synching for the fans.(Music)
March 22, 2004... Lip-synching is practically as old as recorded music. Now, after decades of derision and outrage, audiences are warming up to it. Take Britney Spears fans. While some have implored her not to lip-synch on her 2004 tour, they've been shouted...

Bush's right-hand woman: with world issues at center stage, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice spends more time with the President than any other adviser-and plays a key role in the development of U.S. foreign policy.(Cover Story)
March 22, 2004... Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Adviser, began her relationship with George W. Bush in 2000 as the foreign-policy tutor who educated the little-traveled presidential candidate in the complexities of a world more dangerous...

Arrested in school: offenses that once earned suspensions or 'time-outs' are now resulting in handcuffs and trips to juvenile-detention centers.(National)
March 22, 2004... The 14-year-old girl arrived at her school in Toledo, Ohio, wearing a low-cut midriff top under an unbuttoned sweater. It was a clear violation of the dress code, and school officials gave her a bowling shirt to put on. She refused. She also...

Free expression in a virtual world: Peter Ludlow was booted from the Sims online game after reporting on player misbehavior. Now the Michigan professor is asking: don't cyberpeople have rights?(Technology)
March 22, 2004... Peter Ludlow says he was only trying to expose the truth that Alphaville's authorities were all too happy to ignore. in his online newspaper, The Alphaville Herald, he reported on thieves and their scams. He criticized the city's leaders for...

D-day: the great invasion: sixty years ago this spring, Allied troops stormed the beaches of France in a heroic effort to free Europe from Germany's grip.(Times Past)
March 22, 2004... On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops, along with Polish, French, and other Allied soldiers, landed on the beaches of Normandy, on the northern coast of France, and changed the world. A few years earlier,...

Without security, Afghan women are still in chains.(Perspectives)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... I strongly backed the war in Afghanistan. Bush oversaw a smart and decisive war, and when I strolled through Kabul after its liberation, I was never more proud to be an American. Yet now I feel betrayed, as do the Afghans themselves. With just...

America is now facing the dark side of free trade.(Perspectives)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Globalization and outsourcing are hot topics this election season because so many middle-class Americans, instead of having the luxury of looking ahead to a brighter future for the next generation, are worried about supping into a Lower...

Will steroids strike 'em out?(Perspectives)
March 22, 2004... The scandal, is in the clubhouse now. Barry Bonds's personal trainer, Greg Anderson, has been indicted on 42 charges involving anabolic steroids and financial abuses. After some of his milestone home runs, Bonds publicly praised Anderson for...

Should federal law limit college tuition increases? In the last year, tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose 14 percent. Congress is considering action.(Debate)
March 22, 2004... In the last year, tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose 14 percent. Congress is considering action. YES America's higher education system is in crisis. Explosive tuition increases are jeopardizing the dream of a college...

Cartoons.(Comic)
March 22, 2004... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Caption: REALLY IT'S FOR PEACEFUL, DOMESTIC USES... THE WORLD MUST KNOW THE U.S. MEANS WHAT IT SAYS! WHAT'D HE SAY? MY SUPPORTERS DEMAND I RUN for PRESIDENT! LOOKS LIKE THE WAR IS GOING TO BE A...

D-Day by the numbers.(Graph Exercise)
March 22, 2004... D-Day, June 6, 1944, marked one of the greatest military invasions in history. For nearly five years, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany had ruled almost all of Europe, killing millions of people in the process. Now, the tide was turning. In a...

Upfront quiz 1.
March 22, 2004... DIRECTIONS: Circle the letter next to the best answer. 1. Orange growers report that sales are down, probably because orange juice contains a sugar. b fat. c water. d carbohydrates. 2. Sellers on the online auction service eBay...

Upfront quiz show.
March 22, 2004... 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....