News for the week of March 10

World News

 

Bomber Kills 5 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq’s Capital

BAGHDAD — A man walked up to a group of American soldiers on foot patrol in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad on Monday and detonated the explosives-filled vest he was wearing, killing five soldiers and wounding three others and an Iraqi interpreter who accompanied them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

 

China Sticking With One-Child Policy

BEIJING — China’s top population official said the country’s one-child-per-couple family planning policy would not change for at least another decade. The announcement refutes speculation that officials were contemplating adjustments to compensate for mounting demographic pressures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/asia/11china.html?ref=world

 

Woman Replaces Colleague for South Korea’s First Space Mission

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced Monday that a woman who is a bioengineering student would become its first astronaut. She is scheduled to blast off on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on April 8 on a trip to the International Space Station that will be watched on television by millions of South Koreans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/asia/11korea.html?ref=world

 

Toddler Returns to Iraq After Life-Saving Surgery

HADITHA, Iraq — She is an amazingly lucky girl in a country where bad luck is everywhere. But 2-year-old Amenah al-Bayati is not aware of her good fortune.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html?ref=world

 

US News

 

McCain Uses Breathing Room to Focus on Coffers

Sewing up the Republican presidential nomination while the Democratic candidates continue to battle each other has given Senator John McCain a valuable commodity: time he can use to unite a fractured Republican Party, ramp up his lackluster fund-raising and transform his shoestring primary operation into a general election machine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10mccain.html?ref=us

 

Democrats Confident After Taking Hastert’s Seat

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats on Sunday were celebrating an election victory that they said increased their confidence of holding the House in November and affirmed that party positions on the Iraq war and health care were resonating with voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10house.html?ref=us

 

Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease

High school seniors nationwide are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of much solace to them, in just a few years the admissions frenzy is likely to ease. It’s simply a matter of demographics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/education/09admissions.html?ref=education

 

M.I.T. Cuts Tuition Based on Income

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says undergraduates whose families earn less than $75,000 a year will not have to pay tuition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/education/09mit.html?ref=education

 

Local News

 

SHRIMP 'PIMP'

March 10, 2008 -- A stout female dwarf dubbed "Shorty" has been busted in Brooklyn for pimping out an underage runaway to upscale clients she found over the Internet, police sources said yesterday.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102008/news/regionalnews/shrimp_pimp_101257.htm

 

BOMB-BIKE CLUE

March 10, 2008 -- Cops have lifted fingerprints from the bicycle they believe was used by the Times Square bomber and hope to use them to nab the man who blew up the military recruiting center, a police source said yesterday.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102008/news/regionalnews/bomb_bike_clue_101269.htm

 

IQ, DOGGY STYLE

March 10, 2008 -- Finally, an answer to the question: How dumb is your best friend?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102008/news/regionalnews/iq__doggy_style_101278.htm

 

 

Analysis

 

SHRIMP 'PIMP'

March 10, 2008 -- A stout female dwarf dubbed "Shorty" has been busted in Brooklyn for pimping out an underage runaway to upscale clients she found over the Internet, police sources said yesterday.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102008/news/regionalnews/shrimp_pimp_101257.htm

 

It’s very hard to find a news story that’s written in a style other then inverted pyramid. This week my focus is on how ridiculous The New York Post is. I found this story somewhat comical. The IQ Doggy style is pretty funny too. They are defiantly covering the hard-hitting news aright. Its something different and still keeps me interested. I felt more inclined to read these stories because of how ridiculously titles they are. The ledes of these stories I think were well written.

News for the Week of March 3

News for the week of March 3

 

International

 

U.S. Forces Fire Missiles Into Somalia at a Kenyan

NAIROBI, Kenya — American naval forces fired missiles into southern Somalia on Monday, aiming at what the Defense Department called terrorist targets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/world/africa/04somalia.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

 

Kenya Rival Is Cautiously Optimistic NAIROBI,

Kenya — Raila Odinga is a happy man.

On Sunday, he went to the beach and was pictured on the front page of Kenya’s leading newspaper, The Daily Nation, lounging by the waves, wearing shorts and argyle socks

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/world/africa/04kenya.html?ref=world

 

Iran May Block Internet on Election Day

TEHRAN — Iran’s government might block private access to the Internet on its election day, March 14, two Iranian news outlets reported Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html?ref=world

 

Dinosaur Graveyard as Tourist Draw

LAKE BARREALES, Argentina — As Jorge Calvo strode along the dusty banks of this Patagonian lake, he scanned the reddish dirt, pointing to the remains of a dinosaur in the desert sun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/science/04dino.html?ref=world

 

National

 

About Those Health Care Plans by the Democrats ...

WASHINGTON — While Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama fight over who has the better health plan for the uninsured, they say little about a more immediate challenge that will confront the next administration, whether Democratic or Republican: how to tame the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/us/politics/03qhealth.html?ref=us

 

 

House Fires With a Message in the Northwest

For people who are anti-sprawl activists — or have baser motives — a new-built house sitting empty in a previously rural area evidently makes a ripe target for an attack by fire.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/house-fires-with-a-message-in-the-northwest/index.html?ref=us

 

Two Dead in Wendy’s Shooting

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A gunman in a jacket and tie wordlessly opened fire inside a Wendy's during the lunchtime rush Monday, killing a paramedic who had gone back to fetch the right toy to go with his child's meal and wounding five others. The 60-year-old shooter then committed suicide.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Wendys-Shooting.html?ref=us

 

Obama on the Hot Seat

SAN ANTONIO — Ah, the joys of being a possible, could be front-runner.

Senator Barack Obama might have worn a bee-keeper’s hat as he held a press conference in San Antonio and faced a hornet swarm of questions. As Mr. Obama’s press conferences are relatively rare and often brief affairs, this one drew an awful lot of attention.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/obama-on-the-hot-seat/

 

Local Long Island Stories

 

THREAT TEEN ACCEPTS MOVE TO NEW SCHOOL

March 3, 2008 -- A frightened Brooklyn high-school dean can rest easy now that a trouble-making teen has agreed to transfer to another school, officials said.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03032008/news/regionalnews/threat_teen_accepts_move_to_new_school_100231.htm

 

EX-EXEC: CHARITY NOT SO $WEET

March 3, 2008 -- An upstate charity claimed that it was too broke to pay its "executive director" his promised $150,000-a-year salary - yet dumped thousands of dollars overseas so that the son-in-law of one of its honchos could attend medical school there, court papers say.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03032008/news/regionalnews/ex_exec__charity_not_so_weet_100233.htm

 

2 HURT IN NJ PLANE CRASH

March 3, 2008 -- A small plane attempting to land at a Morris County, NJ, airport crashed after the pilot lost control and ended up on a nearby road, authorities said.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03032008/news/regionalnews/2_hurt_in_nj__plane_crash_100236.htm

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis of article:

Dinosaur Graveyard as Tourist Draw

 

I found this article to be the most interesting to me. That article draws you in with starting with telling you about a new dinosaur found, but really the article is about the man who runs the operation that digs them up, The most important information is at the top and my more brad things at the bottom. It was a traditionally written article. There is good use of quotes and a lot of background information. After reading the story I feel that there was a good strong newsworthy story behind this guy and can understand why a story was done on him. 

News for the week of Feb 25

News for the week of Feb 25

 

National News

 

Students Return to an Altered Campus After Shootings

DeKALB, Ill. — Under a hard, gray sleet, students at Northern Illinois University trudged back to class on Monday for the first time since a gunman burst into a lecture hall on Feb. 14 and killed five students and himself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/26campus.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

 

California: Study of Immigrants and Crime

Immigrants in the state, about 35 percent of adults, are far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group. Among men ages 18 to 40, the group most likely to commit crimes, native-born Americans were 10 times more likely than immigrants to be incarcerated for crimes in California prisons and jails. The study included both legal and illegal immigrants, without focusing separately on illegal immigrants. But it found that native-born American men ages 18 to 40 were at least eight times more likely to be imprisoned for crimes than Mexican immigrants in that age range who were not naturalized citizens — a group likely to have a high percentage of illegal immigrants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/26brfs-STUDYOFIMMIG_BRF.html?ref=us

 

Clinton Campaign Starts 5-Point Attack on Obama

After struggling for months to dent Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy, the campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a “kitchen sink” fusillade against Mr. Obama, pursuing five lines of attack since Saturday in hopes of stopping his political momentum.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26clinton.html?ref=us

 

Fighting for Votes in a Blue-Collar Stronghold in Ohio

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — For as long as anyone here can remember, presidential hopefuls have made this scrappy, blue-collar stronghold an obligatory pit stop on the Democratic stump. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy breezed through when the steel plants still turned the night sky orange; decades later, after the smelters had gone cold, Bill Clinton and John Kerry came by promising jobs to those left idle by the mill closings.

 

International

 

Iraq Demands That Turkey Withdraw

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government on Tuesday condemned Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq and demanded that it withdraw its troops, as fighting continued for a sixth day between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html?ref=world

 

Roadside Bomb Kills 6 in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying five policemen and a 3-year-old in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing all six, officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/world/asia/27afghan.html?ref=world

 

Russian Candidate Denounces Kosovo

MOSCOW — Dmitri A. Medvedev, Russia’s first deputy prime minister and the presumptive successor to President Vladimir V. Putin, on Monday committed the Kremlin to long-term support for Serbia against an independent Kosovo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/world/europe/26serbia.html?ref=world

 

Long Island Stories

Chambers of commerce chief: Stop Trump hearin

The president of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce yesterday urged the state to postpone Tuesday's hearing on Trump on the Ocean because changes in the Jones Beach catering hall and restaurant have never been presented to the public for commen

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-litrum0227,0,110211.story

 

Karate instructor in sex abuse case free on bail

A karate instructor who was once "revered" in the Long Island martial arts community stood quietly Monday as prosecutors detailed a 43-count indictment charging him with sex crimes against his young students.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-likara0226,0,3343447.story

 

New Cassel mom pleads not guilty in kids' deaths

A New Cassel mother pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that she killed her three children

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lidrown0227,0,6902067.story

 

 

Analyssis of:

New Cassel mom pleads not guilty in kids' deaths

 

The article is pretty basic. It doesn’t so much use the inverted pyramid. Because it is covering a hearing it starts off with things that are confirmed and the less confirmed things, but are “believed to have happen” are at the happen. It doesn’t really have an end it just states random facts about he hearing.

News For the Week Of Feb 18th

National News

 

Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers

Shannon Neal can instantly tell you the best night of her life: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2003, the Hinsdale Academy debutante ball. Her father, Steven Neal, a 54-year-old political columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times, was in his tux, white gloves and tie. “My dad walked me down and took a little bow,” she said, and then the two of them goofed it up on the dance floor as they laughed and laughed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/19suicide.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

 

With Oil Prices Rising, Wood Makes a Comeback

NEWPORT, Vt. — As a child, Brian Cook remembers hurling wood into the big orange boiler his father bought during the oil crisis of the late 1970s, helping feed the fire that provided heat and hot water to his family.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/19woodstove.html?ref=us

 

Democrats Make Populist Appeals Before Contests

WAUSAU, Wis. — Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama intensified their populist appeals on Monday, responding to widespread economic anxiety and pushing the Democratic Party further from the business-friendly posture once championed by Bill Clinton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/politics/19dems.html?ref=us

 

A Plan to Offer 50 Sites on Politics in 50 States

In the middle of a media-saturated political season, Jared Kushner, publisher of The New York Observer, has been quietly nurturing an ambitious political journalism venture.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/technology/18observer.html?ref=politics

 

International News

 

When God and the Law Don’t Square

A PRETTY good way to generate an outcry, as the archbishop of Canterbury learned in Britain recently, is to say that a Western legal system should make room for Shariah, or Islamic law. When the archbishop, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, commented in a radio interview that such an accommodation was “unavoidable,” critics conjured images of stonings and maimings, overwhelming his more modest point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/17liptak.html?ref=world

 

Where You Going With That Monet?

THE plots of art heist movies are about as multifarious as the canvases of the paintings pilfered by their main characters — the postmodern heroin-cool of Nick Nolte in “The Good Thief”; the playboy-billionaire boredom of Pierce Brosnan in “The Thomas Crown Affair.” But one thing art theft movies tend to have in common is that they dwell on the heist and not on the aftermath, for reasons that are probably more than cinematic: art is an exceedingly dumb thing to steal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/17kennedy.html?ref=world

 

Long Island Stories

 

1 dead, 3 injured at Westbury teen club shooting

One man was shot dead and two others were in critical condition after gunmen ambushed them with a barrage of bullets through their car windows after a teen night dance at a Westbury restaurant late Sunday night, the Nassau police said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lishot0218,0,2867314.story

 

MetroCard bonus decrease leaves riders feeling odd

Commuters will have to consult their calculators when it comes to dealing with a more complicated MetroCard bonus, under the fare hike taking effect next month.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-nymta185582572feb18,0,1704084.story

 

Science

 

Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters

WOODS HOLE, Mass. — The cuttlefish in Roger Hanlon’s laboratory were in fine form. Their skin was taking on new colors and patterns faster than the digital signs in Times Square.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19camo.html?ref=science

 

Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline

If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19carb.html?ref=science

 

Analysis of the:

“1 dead, 3 injured at Westbury teen club shooting” story

 

The story uses the inverted pyramid. It gives the basic details like how many were shot and dead.  It states where and it sites the source by saying, “Police said.” The story unfolds more and by gets specific like how many were inside, how it happened. The gunman shot through a car and its believed that it was an intentionally and well orchestrated shot. The story also has good coverage and has a few good quotes from people.

 

 

 

News For The Week Of February 12th

News For The Week Of February 12^th

National News

Stamp Price to Increase by One Cent

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more.

The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Postage-Rates.html?ref=us

 

For Clinton, Bid Hinges on Texas and Ohio

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said on Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/us/politics/12clinton.html?ref=us

 

International News

 

3 Arrested in Plot to Kill Cartoonist

BRUSSELS — Two Tunisians and a Dane were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday to prevent what the Danish police said would have been “a terror-related assassination” of one of 12 cartoonists behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in 2005 that provoked fury across the Muslim world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/europe/13denmark.html?ref=world

 

Israel to Build More in East Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel announced plans Tuesday to build more than 1,000 homes in disputed east Jerusalem, infuriating the Palestinians and triggering a new crisis in already troubled peace talks.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html?ref=world

 

Long Island Stories

 

Snow storm hits Long Island and the city

A small snow storm hit Long Island and New York City today, leading to dangerous road conditions. The storm is expected to last until midnight, at which point it will turn into sleet and then rain, the National Weather Service said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lisnow0213,0,6275190.story

 

87 SUNY Old Westbury students evicted over grades

SUNY Old Westbury removed 87 residential students from their dormitories for having grade point averages below 2.0, enforcing a policy that appears to be the only one of its kind on Long Island.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/education/ny-lidorm095570497feb09,0,6697454.story

 

Other News

 

European Lab Attached to Space Station

WASHINGTON — Astronauts placed the crown jewel of Europe’s contribution to the International Space Station into its permanent setting on Monday with the attachment of the Columbus science module.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/space/12shuttle.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

 

Mineola superintendent sued for sexual harassment

A former Mineola schools employee has accused her district's superintendent and his deputy of sexual harassment and other misconduct -- a case that has split the school board, prompted parents' inquiries and delayed efforts to award the deputy job tenure.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lisupt0212,0,3046902.story

 

Obama rolls on; McCain wins Virginia, Maryland

Sen. Barack Obama swept the Democratic presidential primaries by large margins in Maryland. Virginia and the District of Columbia over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the cable television networks reported.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usmain0213,0,7593101.story

 

Neck and Neck, Democrats Woo Superdelegates

WASHINGTON — Seeing a good possibility that the Democratic presidential nomination will not be settled in the primaries and caucuses, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are lavishing attention on a group that might hold the balance of power: elected officials and party leaders who could decide the outcome at the convention in August

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/us/politics/10superdelegates.html?ref=politic

 

 

My thoughts on.. .

 

87 SUNY Old Westbury students evicted over grades

 

The lead is good because it really does rally up the story. I was interested to read on after the lead because while I was college shopping after high school I actually applied and got into SUNY Old Westbury as well as visited. I guess for me its easy to put face on what there talking about because I have some knowing of the school. I felt the article was done well. It talks of the policy being instated for a long time but only now has the school doing something about it. It has numbers and research that tells of the 87 students enrolled status. From those who have re-enrolled, are commuting, and are back in the dorms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News For The Week Of February 4th

National News

Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them

When the government announced last month that a top-secret spy satellite would, in the next few months, come falling out of the sky, American officials said there was little risk to people because satellites fall out of orbit fairly frequently and much of the planet is covered by oceans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/space/05spotters.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

 

States Prepare for Tests of Voting-System Changes

After California ordered a switch to paper ballots from touch-screen voting machines for Tuesday’s primary, election officials in the sprawling, 7,200-square-mile Riverside County had to decide the best way to pick up the ballots so they could be centrally counted on time: helicopter or truck?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05voting.html?ref=us

 

International News

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Common in Australian Aborigines, Report Shows

SYDNEY, Australia — Sexually transmitted diseases have spread so widely in some Aboriginal communities that mass treatment without individual testing, even for children as young as 10, is the only way to fight the problem, according to a medical paper published Monday

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/world/asia/05australia.html?ref=world

 

Eyes on Google, Microsoft Bids $44 Billion for Yahoo

SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Yang, the chief executive ofYahoo, was finishing a regularly scheduled company board meeting Thursday night when his assistant interrupted him with an urgent phone call.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02yahoo.html?scp=5&sq=february+02+2008&st=nyt

 

Long Island Stories

Long Islanders donate most to Clinton

Long Islanders gave almost as much money to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in 2007 as the other major candidates combined, a Newsday analysis of Federal Election Commission data shows.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-limone0204,0,5231191.story

 

Weapons cache found in East Meadow home

A 60-year-old East Meadow man called Nassau police and told them he was under attack. He reported hearing gunshot blasts all around, and said there were bodies on the floor.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liguns0205,0,1491053.story

 

 

Other News

Polls find Obama gaining on Clinton in NY and NJ

ALBANY - Though Hillary Rodham Clinton has a strong lead, Barack Obama is gaining ground among Democratic presidential primary voters in New York and New Jersey, new Quinnipiac University polls revealed Monday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-stpoll0205,0,7391910.story

 

McCain pumped by poll numbers

WASHINGTON - As top Republican presidential contenders John McCain and Mitt Romney head into tomorrow's mega-primary in New York and 20 other states, a question hangs over the GOP contest: Is it all over but for the voting?

http://www.newsday.com/ny-usgop0204,0,600491.story

 

The Five Stages of Yahoo’s Grief

Denial: The initial stage: “It can’t be happening.”

Yahoo is well past this. By rejecting Microsoft’s initial foray back in February 2007, Yahoo’s denial of Microsoft’s interest may have only whet Microsoft’s appetite, bought Yahoo only a limited amount of time, and lost them private bargaining leverage.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/the-five-stages-of-yahoos-grief/index.html?ref=technology

 

My Thoughts on.. .

The Five Stages of Yahoo’s Grief

I thought this article was really good. It was not written traditionally with a lede and inverted pyramid but was done really creative. It supplied information revolving around each stage of grief and what it had to do with Yahoo. It made me want to read the whole thing just because it was done so differently. I felt it didn't need that lede, just a quick glance on at the format and a read of the title was inciting enough.