New York Times Upfront articles from October 2007

New York Times Upfront archives from October 2007

Pakistan students.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PAKISTANI STUDENTS displayed hands painted with traditional henna designs and national. flags as part of an Independence Day celebration in Multan, Pakistan. On August 14, Pakistan and India celebrated their 60th...

Why sad movies are fattening.(BEHAVIOR)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The next time you're deciding which movie to see, consider this: Sad movies may be more fattening than comedies. According to a recent study, test subjects watching Love Story--a weepy 1970 romance--ate an average of...

Self-serve cycling.(ENVIRONMENT)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A fleet of 10,600 hefty gray bicycles took to the streets of Paris in Jury, marking the start of the Velib program [velo, "bicycle,'" plus liberte, "'freedom"). The bikes are available for inexpensive rental at 750...

Who's been editing Wikipedia?(THE WEB)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... A new Web site catted WikiScanner (wikiscanner.virgil.gr) traces the source of millions of changes to Wikipedia. Users are finding that many Wikipedia edits come from corporate networks. For example, someone at PepsiCo deleted several...

Recipe for debt.(CAREERS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The age of celebrity chefs has inspired tens of thousands of young people to enroll in culinary school, with many dreaming of being the next Bobby Flay or Emeril Lagasse. But with the pay for restaurant cooks...

Numbers in the news.(NEW & TRENDS)(Australia's Heritage Tea Rooms)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... $42 PRICE FOR A CUP OF Kopi Luwak coffee at Australia's Heritage Tea Rooms. Said to be the world's rarest coffee, it's brewed from beans handpicked from the droppings of civet cats, small. mammals native to Indonesia and other parts of Asia....

Around the world in 97 days.(AVIATION)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Barrington Irving, 23, has become the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world in a single-engine plane, Irving, a senior majoring in aeronautical science at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, is also the first black pilot to...

Poultry in motion.(FOOD)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Why did the chicken cross the Pacific? To get to the other side, in South America. How did it get there? In Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent. An international research team...

An African tragedy: Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's most prosperous countries; today, it's a land of poverty and repression.(INTERNATIONAL)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Bread has disappeared from most store shelves in Zimbabwe, along with other staples like sugar, milk, cooking oil, and cornmeal. Meat is virtually nonexistent, and gasoline is nearly unobtainable. Hospital patients...

Fashion police: bans on sagging jeans raise the question: what happens when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal?(NATIONAL)
October 1, 2007... Jamarcus Marshall, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, Louisiana, believes that no one should be able to tell him how low to wear his jeans. "It's up to the person who's wearing the pants," he says. Marshall's sagging pants,...

A matter of mosque & state: a number of universities have installed footbaths for use by Muslim students. Is this a legitimate accommodation of a religious practice, or unconstitutional support for a particular religion?(NATIONAL)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When pools of water began collecting on the floor in some restrooms at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, the problem was easy to pinpoint. More than 10 percent of the schools" 8,500 students are Muslim, and as...

A fair race? Oscar Pistorius, 20, wants to compete in the Olympics. But some thinks his artificial limbs give him an unfair advantage.(Cover story)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Oscar Pistorius calls himself "the fastest man on no legs," it's not an exageration: In May, the 20-year-old sprinter from South Africa won the 100- and 200-meter events at the Paralympic World Cup in London, an...

Major dilemma: more schools are requiring high school freshmen to declare a major. Do majors make school more interesting, or do they force students to specialize to soon?(EDUCATION)(Dwight Morrow High School)
October 1, 2007... Sometimes it's hard enough just deciding what to wear to school each morning or what to have for lunch, let alone picking a field to major in. But as of this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, N.J., are required to...

"A grave wrong": during World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to abandon their homes and businesses and move to guarded camps surrounded by barbed wire.(TIME PAST)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Once upon a time in America--not in Nazi Germany--tens of thousands of citizens and their families were forced to leave their homes, take only as much clothing and other belongings as they could carry, and resettle...

Joining the Army in wartime: enlisting wasn't a tough decision for Kalynn House; dealing with reactions from friends and neighbors was much harder.(VOICES)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In August 2006, just before I started my senior year in high school, I enlisted in the Army. Since then, I've run into a lot of people who ask why I signed up knowing that we are at war. There are actually many...

The real cost of fake goods: some of the profits from counterfeiting support criminal activities, and even terrorism.(OPINION)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fashion is easy to copy: Counterfeiters buy the real items, take them apart, scan the pieces to make patterns, and produce almost-perfect imitations. According to the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group in Paris, at...

Is America's food supply safe? E. coli in spinach, salmonella in peanut butter--a string of recent contamination has prompted questions about food safety.(DEBATE)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YES Americans have one of the safest food supplies in the world. The Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) works closely with federal, state, and local agencies, private companies, and consumers to make it even...

Cartoons.(Cartoon)
October 1, 2007... A race to the START. JEFF PARKER * Florida Today * CAGLE CARTOONS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LEFTOVERS AGAIN?! STUART CARLSON * Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel * UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE'LL HAVE TO...

College majors: what's hot.(GRAPH: NATIONAL)(Graph)
October 1, 2007... As the article "Major Dilemma" reports, a number of school districts around the country are now requiring high school students to select majors. While there isn't a lot of information yet on which majors are the most popular in high...

Game show.
October 1, 2007... * 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...

Clarification.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2007... "The Race for the Presidency" in the September 3 issue stated that the 2008 election will be the first since 1928 with no sitting President or Vice President running on either side. We should have made it dear that we were referring to running...

Game show.(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... * 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 crass into teams. * READ the statements. * CALL on...

Political cartoons.(CARTOON ANALYSIS)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... ANALYZE THE CARTOON 1. Who do the three runners represent? 2. What does the baton took like, and why is it labeled as it is? 3. Why do the donkey and elephant seem not to want to take the baton? 4. What does the "08" on the...

This mummy.(NEWS & TRENDS)('La Doncella' mummy exhibit)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... THIS MUMMY of a 15-year-old girl was recently put on display at the Museum of High Attitude Archaeology in Salta, Argentina. Known as La Doncella ("the maiden"), she was found in 1999 at the summit of Argentina's Mount Llullaillaco....

Dying words.(LANGUAGE)(extinction of languages)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... There are nearly 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, but experts say almost half are in danger of extinction. One language vanishes about every two weeks, with the death of the sole surviving speaker. According to K. David Harrison, a...

Imported humor.(RUSSIA)('Schastlivy Vmeste')(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Russia's hottest new TV show revolves around a couch-potato shoe salesman, his loudmouth wife, and their two stacker teens. This might sound strangely familiar to many Americans. In fact, the show is an authorized...

Venezuela's time trials.(SOUTH AMERICA)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... In January, Venezuela's clocks will be moved forward by half an hour, and the workday wilt be reduced from eight hours to six. President Hugo Chavez claims that this wilt boost the "metabolism" and productivity of Venezuelans by giving them...

What not to wear.(IRAN)(Islamic clothing)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Iranian police began cracking down on immodest dress this past spring, stopping women in public places to warn them about their attire. Offenses include wearing headscarves that allow hair to show; eyeliner, nail...

Numbers in the news.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... 40 NUMBER OF MOBILE execution units in China. The sleek white buses are equipped by the government for carrying out lethal injections. China leads the world in the number of people executed each year. (See p. 37.) SOURCE: USA TODAY 61%...

They don't pull punches.(SPORTS)(muay Thai)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Traditional femininity is highly prized in Thailand, where girls are taught to be discreet, obedient, and gracious. But this isn't stopping some Thai women and girls from beating up on their opponents in the boxing...

Timbuktu: no longer nowhere.(AFRICA)(Ahmed Baba Institute's library)(Brief article)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A surge of interest in ancient books is raising hopes that Timbuktu--a city in Mali that has tong been a synonym for nowhere--may once again become the intellectual, heart of Africa. In the 15th century, the city...

Africa's rising hopes: despite the problems their nations face, a port finds that Africans are optimistic about the future.(INTERNATIONAL)
October 22, 2007... In a village near Dakar, the capital of Senegal, a 21-year-old shopkeeper named Salimata Mbengue has high hopes for the future, but she worries about the economic situation of her family. "I have five brothers, and only two are employed,"...

Mexico: the challenges ahead: can a new president boost his nation's economy and stem the tide of illegal immigration to the United States?(INTERNATIONAL)(Felipe Calderon)
October 22, 2007... Almost a year into his six-year term, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon is grappling with a tough set of issues, none more pressing than illegal immigration to the United States and the broader question of how Mexico deals with its northern...

Why China needs its own progressive Era: recalls of Chinese products echo America's economic growing pains a century ago when reforms were enacted to put capitalism on a better path. Will China do the same today?(INTERNATIONAL)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients. Filthy shellfish. Contaminated pet food. Toys tainted with lead paint. Faulty tires. A long list of recent Chinese product recalls--and an angry outcry from countries that...

A comeback for made in the U.S.A.(domestic products)
October 22, 2007... Three years ago, Stephanie Sanzone a graduate student in environmental policy at George Mason University in Virginia, started the Web site Stillmadeinusa.com to promote American products. Since August, traffic on the site has quadrupled....

You, too, can be a banker to the poor: Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof on fighting poverty in the developing world with a click of your mouse.(OPINION)(kiva.org)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] One of the most popular ideas in the war against poverty is microlending-making small loans to poor people to start businesses and build a better life. That's what I did recently. From my laptop in New York,...

World affairs annual 2008.
October 22, 2007... In THE 22 PAGES that follow, you'll find MAPS and the LATEST DATA on the world's 194 COUNTRIES--everything from languages and life expectancy to the percentage of young people in the population. To better understand the data, read the...

Snapshots.(world records )(Table)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHO'S ONLINE? Most Internet users per 1,000 people ICELAND 854 NEW ZEALAND 777 SWEDEN 753 PORTUGAL 731 AUSTRALIA 718 SOUTH KOREA 691 DENMARK ...

Should the U.S. negotiate with its enemies? It's hardly a new issue for the U.S. Today the nations in question include Iran, Syria, and North Korea.(DEBATE)
October 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YES In the Iraq Study Group, we recommended that the United States talk directly to two countries that have been hostile to us--Syria and Iran. This goes to the heart of an important question for American foreign...

Cartoons.(Cartoon)
October 22, 2007... CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI * CAGLE CARTOONS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JOHN DARKOW * Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune * CAGLE CARTOONS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GARY MCCOY * CAGLE CARTOONS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GARY VARVEL * The...