New York Times Upfront articles from October 2002

New York Times Upfront archives from October 2002

Bar fight. (Photo).(opposition to national registry in Japan)(Illustration)
October 18, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Activists painted bar codes on their faces in a protest against the Japanese government's new computerized national registry. Under the Basic Residential Register Network System, all citizens have been...

Worms to love by. (International).(popularity of worm museum in Tokyo, Japan)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2002... What's more romantic than reading love poems or taking moonlit walks on the beach? For young Japanese couples, it's cozying up to worms two-car-lengths long at the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo. The museum is devoted entirely to...

Reality Hillbillies. (TV).(reality television shows planned)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2002... Television executives are taking the expression "life imitating art" to a whole new level. CBS has announced it plans to recast the 1960s hit sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies as a reality show. In the original, Jed Clampett's poor mountain family...

I can't do that? For real? (Law).(unusual laws)
October 18, 2002... So you're in church in Nevada--and you let out an intentional burp. Guess what? It's illegal. So is pumping your own gas in New Jersey. To Jeff Koon and Andy Powell, both 18, these laws make little sense. Their book, You May Not Tie an...

Digital fakeout. (Music).(efforts to protect copyrighted music from being copied on computers)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2002... It's called "spoofing" and it may be the latest music-industry tactic to discourage the swapping of music files via the Internet. The problem is that spoofing--which involves posting thousands of corrupted or fake versions of popular songs on...

Anti-Britney? (Q&A).(singer Avril Lavigne)(Interview)
October 18, 2002... The newest cultural import from Canada is Avril Lavigne, 18, who won the award for "Best New Artist in a Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards. She has a hit debut CD, Let Go, and singles "Complicated" and "Sk8ter Boi." UPFRONT caught up with...

War's deep scars. (voices).
October 18, 2002... Litchfield County, Connecticut -- For several years my mother, actress Mia Farrow, has been a special representative for UNICEF. In August, when she went on a humanitarian mission to Angola, I asked to accompany her. I've always been intrigued...

Let felons vote. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2002... Convicted criminals have paid their debt to society and should be given their voting rights back ("Once a Criminal, Never a Voter?" 9/6/02). Allowing ex-criminals to vote brings them back into society, thus giving them an incentive to stay out...

Slash athletes' salaries. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2002... It is absolutely insane that athletes have to make that much money ("Scoring Big Money," 9/6/02). I know they deserve to make money--but more than $1 million a year is just too much. Sports--even professional sports--are just games. ...

Stop random drug tests. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2002... The Supreme Court's decision in the Lindsay Earls case ("Expanded Drug Tests in Schools?" 5/6/02) facilitates new aggressive and radical techniques to curb drug abuse in schools. What happened to the Fourth Amendment, which bars unreasonable...

Weighing the case against Iraq. (National).(military strike)
October 18, 2002... The attack may come with lightning speed, using ground-hugging jets and helicopters to strike directly at Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, in his Baghdad headquarters. Or perhaps the blow will come more slowly, after a lengthy buildup of troops...

World Affairs Annual: 2002-2003. (Special).
October 18, 2002... If someone had asked you a year ago to locate Afghanistan on a map, could you have found it? Probably not. But today, that Central Asian country is at the forefront of the American war on terrorism. In the age of the Internet, supersonic...

Snapshots of the world.(economic statistics)
October 18, 2002... WEALTHIEST AND POOREST COUNTRIES Highest & lowest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in US dollars WEALTHIEST Luxembourg 39,605 Norway 36,768 United States 35,391 Switzerland 33,885 Japan ...

The world in focus. (World Affairs Annual).(Illustration)
October 18, 2002... FAST FACTS ON 193 COUNTRIES Statistics look like a series of cold, hard facts. But every number tells a story. For instance, the number 37 under Malawi's life expectancy, an indicator of the overall health of a population, means many men...

When is a war not a war? The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to "declare war," but modern Presidents have dispensed with the formalities. (time past).
October 18, 2002... As American casualties mounted into the tens of thousands in Vietnam, many members of the U.S. Congress--and much of the public--were feeling betrayed and fed up. Over the course of more than a decade, Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Richard...

Should the U.S. attack Iraq? Few dispute that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is a ruthless dictator. But is it right for the U.S. to attack a sovereign nation? (opinion).
October 18, 2002... YES There is no question that Iraq still possesses weapons of mass destruction. Intelligence from U.S. sources, friendly countries, Iraqi defectors, and United Nations inspectors all indicate that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons now,...

Drawing on the news.(Cartoon)
October 18, 2002... I'M SORRY, BUT IF I'M GOING TO ENGAGE IN AN UNPRECEDENTED FIRST STRIKE, I'M AFRAID WE REALLY SHOULD HAVE A LITTLE MORE EVIDENCE TO GO ON THAN, "HE'S A REALLY BAD GUY..." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DO YOU HAVE A TIMETABLE FOR INVADING...

In spite of bitter relations, U.S. and Iraq continue to trade. (Graph Exercise).
October 18, 2002... Today's tensions between the United States and Iraq are only the latest chapter in a long period of frigid relations between the two countries. The low point came in 1991, when a U.S.-led coalition of countries went to war to drive Iraq out of...