New York Times Upfront articles from November 2007

New York Times Upfront archives from November 2007

Japan's ancient sport of sumo wrestling, like some American sports, has had its share of scandals lately.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JAPAN'S ANCIENT SPORT OF sumo wrestling, like some American sports, has had its share of scandals lately. Asashoryu (left), a grand champion, has been suspended for faking an injury and is suspected of fixing matches...

Homework for parents.(EDUCATION)(Montclair High School in New Jersey )(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some ninth-graders at Montclair High School in New Jersey may find themselves asking their parents, "Have you done your homework?" Damion Frye, an English teacher at Montclair, asks parents to read and comment on the...

Will women take the wheel?(SAUDI ARABIA)(saudi women's driving rights)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Saudi women may now travel. abroad without a mate companion [though mate permission is still, required], seek a divorce, and own their own companies, but they're still forbidden to drive. A group of women has...

Misfortune cookies.(PREDICTIONS)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diners expecting the usual. upbeat messages in their fortune cookies have been taken aback recently by warnings like "Today is a disastrous day" or "Your problem just got bigger." The cookies came from Wonton Food in...

A bite of buffalo.(FOOD)(Tanka Bars and Tanka Bites)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nobody knows exactly what's in some of the energy bars out there today, but only one is made from buffalo meat and cranberries. Tanka Bars and smaller Tanka Bites were created on the Pine Ridge Reservation of the...

Cleaning up for the team.(SPORTS)(Pennsylvania State University)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Last year, Penn State's coed varsity fencing team won its 10th national title. But as they do every year, the team will spend hours this fall scraping nacho cheese, peanut shells, and other gunk off the floor of the university's 107,000-seat...

Washington shed here.(BASEBALL CARDS)(George Washington's picture inside packs of baseball cards)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... What could be stranger than finding a picture of George Washington in a pack of baseball, cards? How about finding a strand of Washington's hair on the card? The Topps Company recently inserted three George Washington "relic" cards--each with a...

Numbers in the news.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... 25% PERCENTAGE OF U.S. adults who didn't read any books last year, according to a recent poll. The average person read four. SOURCE: TIME 47 million NUMBER OF AMERICANS without health insurance in 2006, compared with 44.8...

Technology vs. tyranny: the rulers of Myanmar and other repressive nations try to control the flow of information to keep their grip on power. But are they any match for cell phones, blogs, and YouTube?(Cover story)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by video and photographs smuggled via cyberspace that showed their people rising up against them, the generals who run...

The other India: India's booming economy has created a huge middle class, but hundreds of millions of people still we in desperate poverty.(INTERNATIONAL)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After a bad day at work, Manorama Begum can hardly keep from vomiting. After a good day, she merely puts off eating for a few hours, until the stench has left her nostrils and her fingernails have been scrubbed...

Injustice in Jena? A tree, a fight, and questions of justice in a small Louisiana town.(NATIONAL)(Jena High School)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They called it the White Tree. Not because of the color of its leaves or the tint of its bark, but because of the kind of people who typically sat beneath its shade at Jena High School. And when a black student tried...

College hijinks? How a simple change in the way California allots its Electoral College votes could determine the outcome of the 2008 election.(NATIONAL)
November 19, 2007... The Electoral College has been the system for electing U.S. Presidents since the adoption of the Constitution 220 years ago---and people have been trying to change it for almost as long. Over the last two centuries, there have been more...

Out of it: nearly everyone knows that drug abuse impairs the way a person thinks and functions--but what are the consequences?(FACTS FOR THOUGHT)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ask someone to name the harmful health effects of drug abuse and addiction, and you might get the following very scary list: overdose; cancer; heart disease; lung disease; liver dysfunction; mental disorders;...

From China to Houston and back: adopted from China as a baby, Anna DeSanctis wanted to do something for the orphans left behind.(VOICES)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My name is Anna DeSanctis, but I began life as Tong Li Qun. I was born in China at a time when it was illegal to have more than one child, and most people wanted boys. Like many other girls at the time, I was...

1927 Sacco and Vanzetti: in the middle of the Red Scare, a pair of anarchists were executed on charges of robbery and murder in Massachusetts. Was justice served, or were they convicted because of their radical views?(TIMES PAST)(Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti )
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Eighty years ago, two Italian immigrants were put to death in Massachusetts for a robbery and double murder. Though capital punishment was commonplace at the time and usually attracted little attention, The New York...

Debate.
November 19, 2007... Yes Last year, we eliminated early admissions--a key step in creating a more level playing field for all applicants and reforming an admissions process that has spun out of control in recent years. The students who apply early are more...

The hardest way to become a U.S. citizen: no war has produced more posthumous American citizens than the Iraq War.(OPINION)
November 19, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On an August day when some Iraqi's homemade bomb tore through him, Corporal. Juan Mariel Alcantara became an American. He never got to appreciate the honor. A little-discussed detail, of this war is that some of...

Cartoons.(Cartoon)
November 19, 2007... AMERICA HAS BEEN TELLING LIES ABOUT US THEY HAVE BEEN TELLING... GREAT BIG JUICY LIES! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FORTUNATELY... WE ASPIRE TO HIGHER STANDARDS THAN THE AMERICANS NO ONE TELLS BIGGER AND JUICIER LIES THAN...