New York Times Upfront articles from November 2002

New York Times Upfront archives from November 2002

Don't attack Iraq. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2002... For weeks I've been surveying friends and acquaintances about invading Iraq. I've found one person who supports Bush. Most are appalled by what he is doing and especially that he discourages discussion. Doesn't he know that democracy is based...

The college stress test. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2002... I know the stresses of college admissions ("Inside the Secret World of College Admissions," 9/27/02). Each year it becomes more difficult for a student to handle the pressures of deciding where to apply, what to write on essays, and how to...

It's time to behave like we live here. (voices).
November 1, 2002... EAST MEADOW, NEW YORK--In August, I attended the World Summit on Sustainable Development, a United Nations conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was part of an eight-member delegation from SustainUS, a national network of American youth...

Scowling and standing quietly are just fine, however. (Photo).
November 1, 2002... SIGN OF OBEDIENCE: At a Beijing park, a sign warns against illegal acts, from flower picking and dog walking to music playing, skating, soccer, or even sitting.

Dying for diamonds. (National).
November 1, 2002... Want to stay close to Aunt Sally after she's gone? Sure, you could keep an urn of her ashes on the mantle. But why not convert her into a diamond and wear her on your finger. LifeGem, a suburban Chicago company, promises to turn the carbon from...

Yao-za Yao-za. (Sports).(basketball player Yao Ming)
November 1, 2002... As China flirts with capitalism at home, It's sending a big new export into the U.S. market: Yao Ming, the 7-foot-5-1nch center who begins playing this fall with the NBA's Houston Rockets. At four inches taller than Shaqullle O'Neal, Yao is the...

The melons are glowing. (International).
November 1, 2002... Think pesticides are bad for you? Try eating a radioactive blueberry. A decade and a half after the horrific accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Kiev, Ukraine--which resulted in an atom bomb's worth of radiation being belched into the...

How the wave behaves. (Science Times).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... In physics, there are many kinds of waves. In sports, there is only the Wave, the sweeping mass of spectators rising in sequence around a stadium. But the Wave, it turns out, can be quantified Just about as well as its scientific namesakes. A...

U rite GR8. (Education).(conversational shorthand in electronic messaging)
November 1, 2002... In this age of cell-phone text messaging, rapid-fire e-mailing, and online instant messaging, a new style of shorthand writing is evolving and making its way through the teen scene--and into school papers. Some teachers think the trend toward...

The midterm elections: its showtime: once again, the Democrats and the Republicans wrangle for control. (National).
November 1, 2002... Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, was pulling no punches. In the campaign leading up to next week's elections, the nation's highest-ranking Democrat called the Republican record on the U.S. economy "tragic, deplorable, and abysmal." He...

Debugging the ballot: counting votes should be easy. But counting millions is another matter. And when the system breaks down, the failures can be spectacular. (National).
November 1, 2002... Eager to vote, she had arrived early. But before she could enter the voting booth, she had to wait about 15 minutes for election workers to boot up the computerized voting machines. Then, once in the booth, the screen on her machine didn't...

The United States of Europe? Is an increasingly united Europe poised to challenge America as a second global superpower? (International).
November 1, 2002... As soon as the new euro coins and bills hit the streets in January, the SuperBowl bowling alley in Frankfurt, Germany, warned customers that it would no longer accept payment in German marks. "It is difficult to keep two separate cash-drawers...

Hollywood's gadget factories: engineers, they're not. But sometimes screenwriters spur advances in technology. (circuits).
November 1, 2002... A miniature camera disguised as a lipstick generates a building's 3-D blueprint. An electronic card lets a computer user infiltrate a network, masquerading as someone else. A wireless device copies all the data from a nearby computer. No,...

Big radio's bad boy: Clear Channel owns one of every ten radio stations in the country. It is remaking the airwaves and making enemies in the process. Is this the future of radio? (arts).(Company Profile)
November 1, 2002... You may not have heard of Clear Channel Communications, but chances are you've been affected by its growing empire. It owns the largest chain of radio stations in the country, along with the biggest collection of billboards and a growing number...

An ordeal like no other: the Donner Party's westward trek turned tragic in the snow. (times past).
November 1, 2002... In 1847, Americans were flocking westward. Th6usands of covered wagons rumbled the 2,500 miles from Missouri to the West Coast. The emigrants wanted a fresh start, a better climate, cheap land, or a new adventure. "If hell lay to the west,"...

"Under God" in the pledge? Last spring, a California court ruled that mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the constitution. What do you think? (opinion).
November 1, 2002... YES In 1954, when the words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance, the threat of Communism was a reality, and those words were seen as a positive, unifying statement against practices that threatened our valued democratic...

Drawing on the news.
November 1, 2002... Joe Heller * The Green Bay Press Gazette WE SPENT MILLIONS TO OVERHAUL OUR VOTING SYSTEM SO WE WON'T HAVE A FIASCO LIKE WE HAD TWO YEARS AGO! AND THE WINNER IS... CHAD?!! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joe Heller * The Green Bay...

Upfront quiz 1.(United States elections)
November 1, 2002... FILL IN THE BLANK DIRECTIONS: Write the correct answer on the line provided. 1. In the midterm elections, voters are choosing one third of the Senate, all 435 members of the House of Representatives, and 36 --. 2. Democrats are...

Upfront quiz 2.(European Union)
November 1, 2002... MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Circle the letter next to the correct answer. 1. The euro is the new currency used by 12 of the 15 member countries of the a Union of Nations. b European Union. c EEC. d...

Upfront quiz 3.(United States westward expansion)
November 1, 2002... MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Circle the letter next to the correct answer. 1. The "jumping off" place for thousands of settlers headed westward in the 1840s--the place where they loaded their wagons and started the trek to...

Upfront quiz show.
November 1, 2002... 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....

Quotes.(notable people in the news)
November 22, 2002... "Our history is not a story of perfection. It's a story of imperfect people working toward great ideals. This flawed nation is also a really good nation, and the principles we hold are the hope of all mankind." --PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,...

U.S. should attack Iraq. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 22, 2002... Since the Sept. 11 attacks, we've had to pay close attention to countries suspected of manufacturing nuclear and biological weapons ("Weighing the Case Against Iraq," 10/18/02). No one knows what Iraq is doing when we're not looking. If Iraq...

Drugs also a safety issue. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 22, 2002... Students who come to school high are not there to learn ("More Drug Tests," 9/27/02). They're more likely to be the ones who bring guns or knives to school. (I've seen more violence in school than anywhere.) I'd rather have a drug-test invasion...

Those greedy CEOs. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 22, 2002... I think what those chief executive officers did was horrible (" Cooking the Books," 9/27/02). They took company funds and spent them on personal items. I never would have thought anyone could be so greedy. Jessica Shillito Anacortes,...

Hate is not free speech. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
November 22, 2002... When I read "Is Hate Free Speech?" (9/27/02) tears came to my eyes. Burning crosses in our neighbors' yards? What next? The people doing the cross burning should be sentenced to prison. Courtney Fischer Coalinga, California

How getting high almost killed me. (voices).
November 22, 2002... BEDFORD HILLS, NEW YORK -- Last year, my life was turned upside down by drugs. Before I started getting high, I had always been the girl who knew right from wrong, and when to say no. But when I went away to boarding school as a freshman, that...

A child's work is never done. (Photo).(Illustration)
November 22, 2002... Ahmad, age 4, works as a blacksmith in a Baghdad factory. Iraq's wars, and 12 years of trade restrictions imposed by the United Nations have taken a huge toll on the Iraqi economy. To bring in extra money, many families send their children to...

Puff test? (National).(teenage smoking)
November 22, 2002... Does your school have a right to know if you had a cigarette over the weekend? Some officials think so. And a recent Supreme Court decision, upholding random drug tests in schools, could make it easier to add tobacco to the list. In...

Different jokes, different folks. (International).
November 22, 2002... Ever wonder what makes a joke funny? And how a joke can be bad or good, depending on whom you talk to? New research sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science may have uncovered some dues. The Laugh Lab at the...

Game kids. (International).
November 22, 2002... Thanks to high-speed Internet access, online gaming is becoming an obsession for young people in South Korea. "Game players don't have normal social relationships anymore," warns Kim Hyun Soo, chairman of the Net Addiction Treatment Center. ...

All Jake here. (Q&A).(actor Jake Gyllenhaal)(Interview)
November 22, 2002... Jake Gyllenhaal tops many "it" lists these days. The 21-year-old actor won raves with Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl and with Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon in Moonlight Mile. Here's how a rising star is handling his new stature: How...

The dead bear witness: former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is on trial for war crimes. Will the Balkans finally get a taste of justice? (International).
November 22, 2002... The remains of 372 people killed 10 years ago were laid out on a warehouse floor in the Bosnian town of Sanski Most. In the sameness of the bones, there were traces of distinct human beings--a Mozart T-shirt, a pocket watch. Two forensics...

Green light for the president: the nation takes a turn: the midterm elections put Republicans in the driver's seat, on the road toward dramatic change. (National).
November 22, 2002... WASHINGTON -- With the sweeping election victory that brought both houses of Congress under Republican dominance, President Bush finally gained the power to set the nation's agenda. The new math in Congress is likely to break a logjam that...

Coming soon to a place near you ... Nuclear waste by the ton: nuclear waste has been piling up for years. Now there are plains to bury it all in Nevada. But it has to get past your town first. (National)(Cover Story).
November 22, 2002... National WASHINGTON -- For more than 40 years, nuclear power reactors around the country have been accumulating thousands of tons of radioactive waste. And for almost as long, people have been arguing about where to put it. Finally, this...

"Sink the Bismarck!" It was one of the most fearsome ships afloat. Its mission: force Britain's surrender. London, desperate, put every ship to sea. (time past).
November 22, 2002... "ENEMY IN SIGHT! ENEMY IN SIGHT!" the message rang from the crow's nest of HMS Prince of Wales. It was 5:45 a.m. on May 24, 1941, The British warship, paired with the imposing battle cruiser HMS Hood, plowed. through rough seas on an intercept...

Should the SAT remain timed? Some say the College Board should allow students as much time as they need to take the SAT. Others say more time wouldn't help. (opinion).
November 22, 2002... YES Earlier this year, the College Board announced that it would not flag the SAT scores' of students who take the test under special conditions that allow for extra testing time. Students who have been diagnosed as having one of several types...

Drawing on the news.
November 22, 2002... I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THIS COURT. I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THIS PROCESS... RECOGNIZE ME..? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bruce Mackinnon * The Halifax Herald * Artizans.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kirk Anderson * Artizans.com Nuclear...

Big holes in the ground cost big bucks. (Graph Exercise).
November 22, 2002... The big news in nuclear power is garbage--or nuclear waste, to be more precise. In the 45 years since the first commercial nuclear power plant opened, deadly waste has been piling up at sites in 39 states. Earlier this year, after decades of...

Upfront quiz show.
November 22, 2002... 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....