New York Times Upfront back issues from January 2009:
Not in theaters.(NEWS & TRENDS)(influence of piracy to the entertainment industry)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... A worker readies thousands of pirated DVDs for destruction in Shenyang in northeast China. Counterfeits are big business in China, despite recent crackdowns by the Chinese government. Ninety-five percent of the DVDs sold in China are fake, peddled by street vendors for about 60 cents each ....
Thoreau the climatologist.(ENVIRONMENT)(Henry David Thoreau)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... Henry David Thoreau endorsed civil disobedience, opposed slavery, and rived atone for two years in a hut in the woods near Concord, Mass., an experience he described in Walden. Now it turns out that he was also a climate researcher. When Thoreau died in 1862, the Industrial Revolution was ...
White house wordsmith.(WASHINGTON)(Jon Favreau as)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS one of his many staff announcements before Inauguration Day, Barack Obama appointed 27-year-old Jon Favreau as his director of speechwriting. Favreau (not the actor, and no relation to him) has had a hand in practically every speech that Obama has ...
Impressive stats.(THE CENSUS)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... It's not exactly a page-turner, but the 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the Census Bureau, paints a fascinating portrait-by-numbers of the nation. Among the info-bites in its almost 1,400 tables: West Virginia is the only state in which more people have died ...
Spam on the menu.(FOOD)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With the economy in recession, many businesses are hurting. But at the Hormel Foods plant in Austin, Minnesota, which makes Spam, times have never been better. One of the most iconic hard-times foods in the American pantry, Spam was invented during the ...
Numbers in the news.(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... 5 million ESTIMATED NUMBER OF children in the U.S. who have at least one parent in the country illegally. SOURCE: PEW HISPANIC CENTER 439% PERCENTAGE INCREASE in college tuition and fees from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, compared with ...
A mammoth comeback.(SCIENCE)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though the stuffed specimens in natural history museums aren't likely to burst into Life again, they may contain ancient DNA that can be decoded by the latest DNA-sequencing machines. Some scientists are saying that a Living mammoth--an Ice Age relative of ...
Keeping the talk alive.(LANGUAGE)(Arapaho language)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fifty years ago, teachers at the St. Stephens boarding school on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming would strike students with rulers if they spoke in the Arapaho language. Today, there are only about 200 Arapaho speakers still alive, and they're all ...
A revolutionary recession: did a sour economy set off the American war for independence?(NATIONAL)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Benjamin Franklin returned to America in 1762 after almost five years in London, he was shocked at the housing prices. "The expense of living is greatly advanced in my absence," he commented. "Rent of old houses, and value of lands ... are trebled in ...
Great expectations: if Barack Obama meets the enormous challenges facing the nation, he could go down in history as one of America's great Presidents. But his success is far from assured at a time of crisis at home and threats abroad.(Cover story)
Jan 12, 2009; ... For more than two centuries, great crises have created the opportunity to forge great presidencies. If the long-simmering Civil War had not broken out a month after his inauguration in 1861, Abraham Lincoln would not be known as the man who saved the Union from dissolution. If ...
Have we overcome? What Barack Obama's election says--and doesn't say--about racial progress in America.(NATIONAL)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ellen Yiadom describes her joy at Barack Obama's election-night victory as "the greatest feeling in the world, like winning a million dollars." But that elation hasn't stopped the 25-year-old University of Virginia law school student from ...
The house that slaves built: as Barack Obama and his family move into the presidential, mansion, a took back at a 200-year-old house that has not always been so welcoming to blacks.
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1801, a year after the White House opened, Thomas Jefferson moved in with nearly a dozen staves from Monticello, his Virginia home. And staves made up much of the house's staff until. the death in 1850 of Zachary Taylor, the fast slaveholder to be ...
Car trouble: is a bailout by Washington the answer to Detroit's problems?(NATIONAL)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once upon a time, America and its autos reigned supreme. In the decades after World War II, the car industry boomed, and steady, high-paying, unionized jobs at Detroit's "Big Three"--General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler--helped millions of American workers ...
Turning back the clock? Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been becoming more autocratic for years. is he now trying to hide the horrors of soviet-era history?(INTERNATIONAL)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For years, the earth in the Siberian city of Tomsk had been giving up clues: a scrap of clothing, a fragment of bone, a skull with a bullet hole. And so a historian named Boris P. Trenin made a plea to officials: Would they let him examine secret archives ...
Freespeech on the web: is the internet really the bastion of free expression that we think it is?(TECHNOLOGY)
Jan 12, 2009; ... When Internet users in the U.S. search on Google for "Tiananmen Square," the results include photos of a man blocking a column of tanks--the iconic image of the 1989 student democracy protests in China and the violent government crackdown that followed. But the same search on ...
1989 Tiananmen square massacre: twenty years ago this June, china's rulers sent the army to break up student protests calling for democracy hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed in the crackdown.(TIMES PAST)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On May 29, 1989, a 27-foot-tall foam-and-paper-mache statue resembling the Statue of Liberty appeared in Tiananmen Square, the 100-acre heart of Beijing. Thousands of college students had occupied the square for more than a month in defiance of China's ...
The new college economics: the recession is making it harder for many students to pay for college--and more important than ever to check out all the options.(EDUCATION)
Jan 12, 2009; ... Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I ...
How will we live without them? A quarter of the world's mammals may be headed toward extinction.(OPINION)(Essay)
Jan 12, 2009; ... Like most people, I've been looking at the numbers that measure the convulsions in the global financial markets. And as I do, I think about another frightening set of numbers--the ones that gauge the precipitous declines in the species that surround us. The financial markets will ...
Al Gore's challenge: the former vice president wants the U.S. to stop using fossil fuels to produce electricity by 2018. Is that a realistic goal?(DEBATE)
Jan 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YES In order to rescue civilization from the threat posed by climate change, President-elect Obama should commit to this five-part plan to produce 100 percent of America's electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years: First, the U.S ....
Cartoons.(Cartoon)
Jan 12, 2009 ... PASSING the TORCH STUART CARLSON * UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ECONOMIC EXPERTS I'VE ASSEMBLED ARE VETERANS OF WALL STREET GULP!!! BRUCE PLANTE * Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee} ...
No president in decades has taken office.(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009; ... NO PRESIDENT IN DECADES HAS TAKEN OFFICE amid more anticipation--and concern-than Barack Obama. In our cover story, New York Times chief Washington correspondent David E. Sanger Looks at the challenges facing Obama, ...
At home, job one for Obama is the economy.(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009; ... AT HOME, JOB ONE FOR OBAMA IS THE ECONOMY. While many industries are suffering, Detroit's Big Three automakers are on the verge of collapse. We Look at how an industry that played such an outsize role in America's economy--and culture--in the ...
Overseas, we go to Russia, where Vladimir Putin.(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009; ... OVERSEAS, WE GO TO RUSSIA, WHERE VLADIMIR PUTIN seems to be trying to extend his control. to Russia's history as well as its government. And in Times Past, we look at the Tiananmen Square massacre, 20 years ...
Unemployed in America.(GRAPH: NATIONAL)
Jan 12, 2009 ... With the nation in a recession, it came as no surprise when the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent in November, the highest level in 15 years. When businesses struggle, they need to cut costs, which can include layoffs. People who are out of work, or working but worried about ...
Game show.(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... * 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 the first ...
Analyze the political cartoon.(CARTOON ANALYSIS)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009; ... 1. What do the words and phrases forming the U.S. map represent? 2. What does Barack Obama's physical posture suggest about the task he faces as President? 3. Which of these issues are related to the economy? Which are domestic issues? ...
Analyze the photo.(PHOTO ANALYSIS)(Brief article)
Jan 12, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [See page 25 in the magazine] 1. What is the story behind this photograph? 2. What do you think is going through this man's mind? What might those in the ...