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.
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