New York Times Upfront articles from March 2006

New York Times Upfront archives from March 2006

Letter from the editor.
March 13, 2006... In this issue, Upfront focuses on Cuba, and the long, difficult relationship the United States has had with Fidel Castro since 1959. Our first article is about the dangers Cubans face in fleeing to Florida, where U.S. authorities try to...

Ford and Toyota: Wall Street's view.(GRAPH > NATIONAL)
March 13, 2006... For almost all of the 20th century, the U.S. auto industry was king. Known simply as "Detroit," the industry employed hundreds of thousands of workers on car assembly lines and untold tens of thousands of others in companies that supplied parts...

Game show.(automobile industry)
March 13, 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...

Israeli mounted police charged Jewish protesters at the West Bank outpost of Amona on February 1.(news & TRENDS)
March 13, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Israeli mounted police charged Jewish protesters at the West Bank outpost of Amona on February 1. As part of a tougher approach by Israel,'s Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, police were ordered to tear...

Fire-alarm belles.(San Diego Fire Engine Company 22, all women firefighters)
March 13, 2006... When San Diego's Fire Engine Company 22 answers a call, their big red truck is missing a typical feature: a man. Engine 22, Division A (consisting of a captain, an engineer, a firefighter paramedic, and a firefighter) is among the few...

Numbers in the news.(news & TRENDS)
March 13, 2006... 4:32 Hours & minutes per day that the average American watched TV during the Sept. 2004-Sept. 2005 TV season--the highest level in 15 years. SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH 66% Percentage of Americans surveyed who say it's...

The 'cute' factor.(BEHAVIOR)
March 13, 2006... How has Tai Shan, a baby panda, attracted thousands of visitors to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., just to ooh and aah over him? Why are the stars of March of the Penguins so beguiling? And why have sales of small cars like the Mini...

E-buyers, beware!(THE INTERNET)
March 13, 2006... Counterfeit merchandise is rampant on the Web, and buyers using online auction sites like eBay are especially vulnerable. Jewelry, watches, artwork, designer goods, and autographed sports memorabilia are just a few of the items most frequently...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)
March 13, 2006... 'This city will. be chocolate at the end of the day.... It's the way God wants it to be.' --New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, on rebuilding efforts post-Katrina. He later apologized for his comment and called for people of all races to...

Has sudoku got your number?(BRAINTEASERS)
March 13, 2006... Humans seem to have an innate desire to fill in empty spaces. Perhaps that is part of the appeal of sudoku--the new international puzzle craze. The object is to fill in a grid with numbers so that every row, every column, and every 3-by-3 box...

Extreme makeover: from white to black.(Rose Wurgel)(Interview)
March 13, 2006... On Black. White., a six-part reality show on FX that premiered March 8, Rose Wurgel, 18, underwent a major transformation: through the art of makeup, she and her white family from Santa Monica, Calif., were made to look black. They shared a...

How a trillion stacks up.(NUMBERS)
March 13, 2006... Last month, President Bush proposed a $2.77 trillion budget. Obviously, that's a lot of money. Even one trillion of anything can be difficult to fathom. ACRES OF LAND ON EARTH 37 BILLION ALL PEOPLE WHO EVER LIVED about 100 BILLION...

Men may be 'natural avengers'.(PSYCHOLOGY)
March 13, 2006... Revenge may be far sweeter for men than it is for women, suggests a study released in January. When mate test subjects witnessed people they perceived as "bad guys" being zapped with a mild electrical shock, their M.R.I. scans lit up in...

Varsity stays out of the gutter.(bowling, favoerite sport of the schools)
March 13, 2006... Bowling may not be a sport that inspires pep rallies, but according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, it is the fastest-growing high school varsity sport. In 2005, there were nearly 40,000 high school bowlers...

Shifting gears: with Detroit's 'Big Three' carmakers struggling, what are the prospects for the U.S. auto industry and its workers?(NATIONAL)(Industry overview)
March 13, 2006... Once upon a time, America and its autos reigned supreme. In the decades after World War II, the car industry boomed, and steady, high-paying, unionized jobs at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, known as Detroit's "Big Three," helped millions...

Finding their way to San Jose: Detroit is down, San Jose is up: what their fortunes tell us about life in America in the 21st century.(NATIONAL)
March 13, 2006... Maps and population statistics can tell us a lot about where a country is headed, both literally and figuratively. Take the U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings on American cities: They show that for the first time since 1900, Detroit is not on...

When democracy gets messy: the U.S. is finding out that in promoting democracy abroad, when you 'let the genie out of the bottle,' the results are not always predictable ...(INTERNATIONAL)
March 13, 2006... After a radical Islamic group swept the Palestinian elections in January, the overwhelming sense among politicians and intellectuals throughout the East was that America's little chemistry experiment had blown up in its face. For several...

The problem with Iran: led by a radical new president, Iran may be only a few years away from being able to build a nuclear weapon. The U.S. and the U.N. are struggling to respond.(INTERNATIONAL)
March 13, 2006... Few world leaders have proved as adept at getting attention as Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Last October, three months after his surprise election victory, he effectively called for wiping Israel and the United States off the map. And...

Road warrior: in male-dominated Iran, Laleh Seddigh proved she could drive a race car even faster than the men.(INTERNATIONAL)
March 13, 2006... A year and a half ago, Laleh Seddigh asked Iran's national auto-racing foundation for permission to become a pioneer: A woman in this male-dominated society, Seddigh wanted to compete on the racetrack against men. When permission was...

Troubled waters: thousands of Cubans struggle to make it to the U.S. every year. But as they approach Florida, the Coast Guard tries to stop them.(Cover story)
March 13, 2006... The drama unfolded live before TV viewers across Florida. On September 23, a few miles off Miami's coast, U.S. authorities struggled to keep 10 Cuban migrants in a homemade metal boat from reaching the beach. A Coast Guard crew used a rope to...

1961: the Bay of Pigs: a force of Cuban exiles trained and equipped by the U.S. invaded Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.(TIMES PAST)
March 13, 2006... Well before dawn on Monday, April 17, 1961, a brigade of 1,500 Cuban exiles landed on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs in southern Cuba. They hoped to trigger a counter-revolution that would overthrow the fledgling socialist and pro-Soviet regime...

Should military recruiters be allowed in high schools? Public schools that accept federal funds are required by law to give access to military recruiters.(DEBATE)
March 13, 2006... YES The United States has had an all-volunteer military since the draft was abolished in 1973. That means the military depends entirely on recruiters to attract an educated, highly sophisticated, and well-trained force to defend our nation...

Back on track after leaving a gang.
March 13, 2006... The community I've grown up in is the type of place where making a bad decision can put you on a path that's hard to get off. And it's hard to stay on the right track when you have friends (or so-called friends) who tell you to ditch school and...

Why we should hold the fries.(junk food)
March 13, 2006... The solution to the American health crisis ties less in reorganizing medical, treatment than in improving public hearth, such as steering kids away from french fries. We should launch a series of initiatives to confront obesity and tack of...

Making green the new red, white, and blue.(energy efficiency)
March 13, 2006... Focusing the nation on energy efficiency--on being green--is the most geostrategic, patriotic thing we can do. It is a national-security imperative. The biggest threat to America and its values today is "petrolism," my term for the corrupting,...

When politicians cry much worse than wolf.
March 13, 2006... There is a long roster of public figures who seek to call attention to their cause by invoking historic cataclysms. They take some of history's most brutal and shameful chapters--slavery, the Holocaust, the massacre of American Indians--and...

Cartoons.(Comic)(Cartoon)
March 13, 2006... WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pat Bagley * The Salt Lake Tribune * Caglecartoons.com IT'S ME [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TIME ...