New York Times Upfront articles from May 2006

New York Times Upfront archives from May 2006

"Space tourists".(news & TRENDS)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: "Space tourists" float inside a zero-gravity simulator aboard a Russian Space Adventures aircraft. For $9,895 and a signed release from a physician, anyone over 18 can experience the weightlessness of space...

Leftovers from the Cold War.(AMERICANA)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... Workers inspecting New York's Brooklyn Bridge in March became accidental archaeologists when they discovered a relic of the Cold War: Deep inside the 123-year-old bridge's foundation was a fallout shelter stocked with water drums, medical kits,...

Numbers in the news.(news & TRENDS)
May 8, 2006... 1,307 Distance, in feet, that a Missouri tornado carried Matt Suter, 17, in March. Suter survived. SOURCE: USA TODAY 30 Number of minutes the average American spends preparing dinner every evening, down from 2.5 hours in the...

When dogs fly ...(PETS)
May 8, 2006... Most dogs love to ride in the family car, but the family plane can be a different story. Michele McGuire, an experienced pilot from Westminster, Md., found that out the first time she took her dog, Cooper, for a ride in her Cessna. The normally...

A modest proposal.(Clothings designed for refugees by Nike Inc.)
May 8, 2006... Clothing designers can sometimes change how people live and pray, as they did for young Somali women in Kenya's refugee camps. Volleyball is one of the few leisure activities for these women, whose families fled the war in neighboring Somalia...

Noted & quoted.(SOUNDBITES)
May 8, 2006... 'This is certainty the first case of drilling a person's teeth.' --Lead author of a study that has found the earliest known evidence of dental work, in a neolithic graveyard in Pakistan: nine skulls with 11 drilled molars dating back 9,000...

Judas, minus the betrayal.(RELIGION)
May 8, 2006... An ancient Christian manuscript, including the only known text of the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years, and it portrays Judas Iscariot not, as tradition holds, a betrayer of Jesus but as his favored disciple and willing...

Sharing her culture through dance.(Mangala Maddali interviewed)(Interview)
May 8, 2006... Forget the mall: Whenever Mangala Maddali, 17, of Clinton, Miss., has enough free time, she drives seven hours to Atlanta to study Kuchipudi, a classical Indian dance, with her favorite dance instructor. She lived in India until she was 9 and...

Soda sales fizzle.(BEVERAGES)
May 8, 2006... In 2005, the growing popularity of bottled water, sports drinks, and energy drinks caused soda sales to decline for the first time in 20 years.

Could a giant fish be the missing link?(SCIENCE)
May 8, 2006... Fossils of a scaly, 375-million-year-old creature may be a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on land. A team of scientists led by Neil H. Shubin of the University of Chicago says they found...

Climbing the walls.(SPORTS)
May 8, 2006... William Fredericks grew up near the Rocky Mountains, home to some of the best rock climbing in the country. But until last fall Fredericks, 15, a freshman at Adams City High School in Commerce City, Colo., had never experienced the sport for...

The great immigration debate: there's general, agreement that America's immigration system needs fixing--but that's where the consensus ends.(NATIONAL)(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Five years ago, Ruben Arita journeyed from his native Honduras and crossed into the United States illegally. Last month in Washington, D.C., he joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in cities across the country, calling on Congress to...

At the top of the tribe: as tribal leaders, American Indian women are breaking with tradition even as they work to preserve it.(Cecelia Fire Thunder)
May 8, 2006... The Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe of South Dakota is often remembered for the male leaders of its past--men like Crazy Horse and Red Cloud. Now, Cecelia Fire Thunder is also likely to be a memorable Oglala Lakota Sioux leader: About a year and...

All that glitters: the demand for gold is soaring. But some of the methods used to mine gold today take a heavy toll on the environment.(ENVIRONMENT)
May 8, 2006... For thousands of years, people have been willing to do just about anything to acquire gold, even kill or conquer for it. In the early 1500s, King Ferdinand of Spain laid down the priorities as his conquistadors set out for the New World. "Get...

Flue fears: bird flu has spread rapidly in the last few months, but how serious is the threat to humans?(INTERNATIONAL)
May 8, 2006... Over the last year, it has been impossible to watch TV or read a newspaper without encountering dire reports about bird flu and the possibility of a worldwide epidemic, or pandemic. First Asia, then Europe, now Africa: Like enemy troops moving...

What's the matter with France? Young people are angry, Muslims feel unwelcome, and the economy is hurting. 'Springtime in Paris' used to be more fun.(PHOTO JOURNAL)
May 8, 2006... Viewing the protests, riots, and general mayhem in France in recent months from across the Atlantic, it's hard for Americans not to wonder: Why do France's young people feel so alienated, threatened, and angry? In March and April,...

The tragedy of Darfur: ethnic conflict in Sudan has killed 200,000 civilians and created 2 million refugees.(INTERNATIONAL)
May 8, 2006... When his family's village in Darfur was attacked by janjaweed militias, Idris Ishmael managed to run away. But his wife, Halima, was eight months pregnant and could only hobble. So she stayed in the village, along with the couple's four...

1936: the 'Nazi Olympics': three years before World War II, Adolf Hitler turned the Berlin Games into a tense spectacle designed to showcase 'Aryan superiority'.(TIMES PAST)
May 8, 2006... On Aug. 2, 1936, the first day of competition in that year's Summer Olympics, a record 110,000 spectators packed the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Among them, seated in a private box, was German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Throughout the day's...

Should the driving age be raised to 18? Alarmed by car accidents involving teenagers, a number of states are considering raising the age for getting a license.(DEBATE)(Column)
May 8, 2006... YES On teenage boys from Chicago went out for a late-night drive and had a terrible accident. The car spun out of control and struck several objects, including a giant light pole. Two of the boys--a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old--were...

Taking in a family in Katrina's wake.(VOICES)
May 8, 2006... When my parents proposed taking in refugees from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina last summer, my immediate reaction was negative. I wondered how my family in California could support more people when money was already tight since my older...

Why baseball is under a cloud.(Drugs and athletes)(Column)
May 8, 2006... Baseball's investigation into steroid use has put a cloud over the optimism that usually accompanies a new season. The source of this tension is Barry Bonds, one of the most talented--and polarizing--figures in baseball, history. Bonds, the San...

America needs immigrants and strong borders.(OPINION)(Column)
May 8, 2006... We need to keep America the world's greatest magnet for immigrants. Why? Today, more and more people around the globe have access to the same technological tools for innovation and entrepreneurship. In such a world, the countries that make it...

South Africa: the best hope for success on the continent.(apartheid)(Column)
May 8, 2006... A dozen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa is in the midst of the largest affirmative-action program in the world, an attempt to turn a white-dominated economy into one where the country's more than 35 million blacks have a big...

Cartoons.(Cartoon)
May 8, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] J.B. Handelsman * The New Yorker The Cartoon Bank Jeff Stahter * The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch * Newspaper Enterprise Association Clay Jones The Free Lance-Star [Fredericksburg, Va.] * Creators Syndicate...

A nation of immigrants.(GRAPH > NATIONAL)
May 8, 2006... The vast majority of Americans can trace their roots to immigrants from other nations. But for much of American history, immigration has been the subject of heated debate. In the 18th century, long before the restrictive Naturalization Act of...

Game show.
May 8, 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...