New York Times Upfront articles from November 2001

New York Times Upfront archives from November 2001

A nation united. (letters).
November 12, 2001... I have a close friend who lost her father at the World Trade Center ("Terrorism Hits Home," 10/1/01). Thinking about it is agonizing. I hope that the monstrous people responsible for these attacks are brought to justice. Beneath these feelings,...

Remember tolerance. (letters).
November 12, 2001... All our prayers are with the families and friends of those who perished in the terrorist attacks. At the same time, I hope people will not disrespect Muslims and Arabs, as a few should not dishonor a religion of millions. DARWIN FU...

America's immigrant heritage. (letters).
November 12, 2001... Articles about Mexican immigrants, teenage refugees from Sudan, and ethnic diversity ("The New Americans," 9/3/01) help us keep life in perspective and remember what is really important. MOLLIE QERIM Cheshire, Conn.

`It's the scariest day of my life'. (voices).(students tell their stories of the September 11 terrorists attacks)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... MOST AMERICANS SAW THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK ON TV. STUDENTS AT NEW YORK'S STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL, JUST FOUR BLOCKS AWAY, SAW THE TERROR FROM THEIR CLASSROOM WINDOWS. HERE, IN EXCERPTS FROM THEIR SCHOOL NEWSPAPER, THE SPECTATOR, THEY TELL...

Patriotism comes to a head. (Photo).
November 12, 2001... At a Florida tattoo shop, Jack Hansen, 27, goes red, white, and eww as ink spills down his forehead. The American colors have become a major fashion statement, but most people have stuck with U.S. flags on T-shirts, book bags, jackets, lapel...

Jordan out of his league. (Sports).(Michael Jordan)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Michael Jordan vs. Allen Iverson may be one of the best battles in the NBA this season. Jordan, 38, leaving retirement to lead the Washington Wizards, faces an uphill battle against Iverson, 26, the tattoo-covered, jewelry-encrusted star of the...

Detour on driver's licenses. (National).(teenage drivers)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Turning 16 is no longer a guarantee that you'll get the keys to your parents' SUV. Two studies, in North Carolina and Michigan, show that limits on teen drivers, put in place in the mid-1990s, led to a 25-percent decline in car accidents...

Refugee Aider. (International).(Angelina Jolie)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Actress Angelina Jolie is putting her money and stardom where her heart is. During trips to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Cambodia earlier this year, she saw firsthand the plight of refugees. The Tomb Raider star became an official goodwill...

Pulling hype's plug. (Circuits).(Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube video game systems)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Let's play a game of Hype Blaster. Microsoft is pushing its new video-game console, the Xbox, out November 15. Nintendo follows with its GameCube, out three days later. Here's the word. * Microsoft's hype: "Xbox is going to change video...

Anthrax FAQ. (Science).(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Anthrax used to be a livestock disease. Now it has become a biological weapon. Here's thy rundown, according to scientists and government experts. What is anthrax? A potentially fatal bacterial disease that is transmitted in the form...

Arrested liberties? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, government proposals for increased surveillance to disrupt terrorist networks have collided with some of America's most cherished civil liberties. How far should our nation go in trading personal freedoms for safety? (National).(Cover Story)
November 12, 2001... In the new America born on September 11, soldiers with automatic weapons stand guard at airports, while F-16 fighter jets thread the skies for rogue aircraft. Postal workers take special precautions, fearing deadly anthrax bacteria in letters...

Bias of war: recalling the racial hysteria of world war II internment camps, Japanese-Americans try to stop history from repeating itself.(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Catherine Fukushima does not have the build of a bodyguard. Yet for the Othmans, an Arab-American family, she is a guardian angel. Fukushima, a Japanese-American, escorts them on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, to ward off the verbal threats...

Is this WWIII: in a shadowy, new kind of war with a new kind of enemy, how will we know who's winning? (News Analysis).(Cover Story)
November 12, 2001... WORLD WAR III? NOT REALLY. WORLD War I was essentially a struggle for Western Europe, fought primarily by massed infantry formations, in France and northern Italy and at Gallipoli on the Dardanelles. World War II covered the whole world,...

War by air: the hardware: from bombers to missiles, the U.S. military arsenal has major tools of battle targeted at Afghanistan.(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... * B-52 STRATOFORTTRESS A long-range bomber with a crew of five, the B-52 is capable of dropping or launching a wider array of U.S. weapons than any other plane. It can carry up to 70,000 pounds of bombs, including up to 20 precision-guided...

The agony of Afghanistan: no music, no TV, no dancing--and that's just the beginning of the hardships of life under the Taliban. (International).(Cover Story)
November 12, 2001... THE DEFINING FEATURE OF AFGHANISTAN IS despair. Clusters of widows, cloaked head to toe in blue shrouds, wander the streets, begging. Skeletal men, unable to afford donkeys, pull overloaded carts. Bands of children--some missing legs or...

Deconstructing the Simpsons: millions of teen viewers know the cartoon is about more than just typical sitcom laughs, but is it art on the level of Aristotle and Shakespeare? (arts).(television)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... BEN SERVISS, 16, IS A STUDENT AT JOHN H. GLENN High School in East Northport, N.Y. He's interested in schoolwork, jujitsu, and the mandolin. But one of his strongest passions is The Simpsons, which he started watching midway through its...

Parallels to Pearl Harbor: in 1941, as in 2001, a surprise attack on America united the nation for a major war. (times past).
November 12, 2001... ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, STEPHEN BOWER Young was a happy man. The 19-year-old sailor on the U.S.S. Oklahoma looked out on a sunny Sunday at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a perfect day for a picnic with his girlfriend. Then, just before 8 a.m., two...

Is racial profiling justified? This police practice has long seemed unfair, but is it necessary--maybe even essential--in times of crisis? (opinion).
November 12, 2001... YES Racial profiling may not be the best way to catch criminals, but it is necessary in a time of crisis such as we are now experiencing. Hundreds of people are involved in Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, living in many countries,...

Graph exercise: Americans speak out on terrorism.(surveys)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Even before the smoke cleared from the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans were voicing their opinions about them and how the U.S. should respond. In the weeks following the attacks, various public opinion polls recorded Americans' views...

Quiz 1.(attack on America, 2001)(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... Use with NATIONAL, pages 10-14 SHORT ANSWER/FILL IN THE BLANK: WRITE THE CORRECT ANSWER ON THE LINE PROVIDED. 1. Weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, several Americans were contaminated by potentially deadly -- bacteria sent...

Mideast coverage. (letters).
November 26, 2001... Thank you so much for being somewhat impartial about the Israeli-Palestinian struggle ("Shattered Hope," 9/17/01). There are more and more pro-Palestinian articles that aren't researched enough. I have read a lot about this, and I've found a...

Moving from `cool kid' to `foreign kid'. (voices).(Taiwanese student)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... MAHWAH, NEW JERSEY -- The flight from a little island named Taiwan, my beloved country, to the United States turned my life upside down. Four years ago, my mother sent me to live in the U.S. with my older brother to get a better education....

Let us pray. (School).(opposition continues)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... A circle formed at midfield before last month's football game at Greenbrier High School in Arkansas. Over the public school's loudspeakers, Jayla Johnston's soft voice filled the stadium: "Our Father, who art in heaven..." With the...

Bin Laden: puppet of a muppet? (Photo).(Osama alongside Bert)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Anti-American protesters in Bangladesh are apparently unaware that their poster shows Osama bin Laden alongside Bert of Sesame Street (right of main figure, above bin Laden's shoulder). The image came from "Bert Is Evil," a parody Web site...

Soundbite.(Kofi Annan quote)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... "The world is a messy place, and unfortunately, the messier it gets, the more work we have to do." --Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary general and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

A laughing matter. (Arts).(cartoonist Aaron McGruder)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Cartoonist Aaron McGruder is a troublemaker. Instead of the studied silence of many comic strips, the young African-American characters in The Boondocks have tackled the war in Afghanistan. They point out that the U.S. government once financed...

Wheel feelings. (Cars).(concept car Pod)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... Cross a car with a robotic dog and you get the Pod, from Toyota and Sony. Unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show last month, the concept car has moving "eyelids" over its headlights, a light-bar "mouth" that communicates by changing colors, and an...

Drafting brainpower. (National).(winning against terrorism)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... The U.S. is leaving no stone unturned in its search for the ultimate weapon to win the war on terrorism. Hoping to tap Hollywood's creativity, intelligence experts met with screenwriters and directors to brainstorm on what terrorists might...

Zap 'n' go. (Science).(teleportation research)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... It's not Star Trek, but physicists in Denmark have demonstrated a method that could lead to a primitive form of instantaneous teleportation. In physics, teleportation means the creation of a replica of an object some distance away, which always...

Down in the dirt: how and when might the war in Afghanistan end? Here's an inside look from a Special Forces expert.(Cover Story)
November 26, 2001... NEWS ANALYSIS THE U.S. CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM THAT BEGAN with weeks of intense bombing in Afghanistan may appear to be striking blows at random. But there is an unseen order to the battle that is likely to become evident over the...

Infected with fear: talk of biological and chemical terrorist attacks has some Americans fearing the worst is yet to come. How safe are you?
November 26, 2001... THE DISPLAY STAND WAS BARE, AND ITS BASE WAS littered with empty boxes. "No, we're out of gas masks," the clerk in a New York City army-navy surplus store told three customers in quick succession. She pulled out a clipboard. "But we've got a...

Are we prepared for bioterrorism? As fear of anthrax spreads, public health officials debate America's readiness. (opinion).(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... YES Never has our nation's public health surveillance been more important, and all public health officials are dedicated to being even more thoroughly prepared to respond tomorrow than we are today. We should be proud of how well we have...

Russia: after decades of animosity, America and Russia may be recast as partners and allies. (International).(war against terrorism)
November 26, 2001... ON THAT SWEET AND BALMY SEPTEMBER NIGHT TWO YEARS ago when everything changed, Alyona Morozova, then 23, was watching a soccer game on TV with her new boyfriend, Sergei. They lived in separate apartments in a huge south Moscow housing...

Is cheerleading a sport? More schools are saying yes, pushing a new competitive spirit from the sidelines to the spotlight. (sports).(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... WHEN HER SPORT IS IN SEASON each winter, Jennalee Collins, 16, works out with her teammates for two hours almost every day. She runs, lifts weights, and does exercises to increase explosiveness. Every Saturday, she has a meet and classmates...

Peace on the brink of war: after home bunkers and duck-and-cover drills, Americans were braced for war in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. (times past).
November 26, 2001... STUDY YOUR TRIGONOMETRY. FURNISH your family's bomb shelter. Scan the sky for enemy warplanes. Those were homework assignments for a generation of high school students. The big test came in 1962. That October, U.S. spy planes spotted about...

Graph exercise: American aid to Afghanistan.(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Even as some U.S. warplanes Were bombing Afghanistan, other U.S. planes were supplying food to the Afghan people. In the first three weeks of the campaign, the U.S. dropped more than 800,000 food packets. Since 1979, the U.S. has given...

Upfront quiz 1.
November 26, 2001... QUIZ 1 Use with NATIONAL, pages 8-13 SHORT ANSWER/FILL IN THE BLANK: WRITE THE CORRECT ANSWER ON THE LINE PROVIDED. 1. Elite combat units of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, who have been trained for unconventional missions,...

Upfront quiz 2.(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... QUIZ 2 Use with INTERNATIONAL, pages 15-17. FILL IN THE BLANK AND SHORT ANSWER: Write the correct answer on the line provided. 1. Russia is convinced that the 1999 terrorist bombings that killed more than 300 people in Moscow, the...

Upfront quiz show.
November 26, 2001... Use with articles throughout the issue. Divide the class into 2-4 teams. You may refer to the magazine during play The teacher reads the statements below, which are answers to questions. In this game, modeled after the TV show Jeopardy,...