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Articles in Oct 9, 2006 issue of New York Times Upfront

• Noted & quoted
• Vicodin and OxyContin.
• Why the Darfur genocide isn't just another human tragedy
  by Nicholas D. Kristof
• Looking for a few big stars
• It's all in the DNA: as DNA testing becomes more available, some people are checking into their ancestry and asking, What's in it for me?
  by Amy Harmon
• Teenage steroid use
• Numbers in the news
• The long road back: New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are on the mend, but recovering from the wrath of Katrina will clearly take years
  by Suzanne Bilyeu
• Hot shoes, cool price
  by William C. Rhoden
• Reducing road rage, one sign at a time
• The science of "Dread"
• Letter from the editor
  by Elliott Rbhun
• Judge turns to child's play
• The science of addiction: what brain research tells us about drug addiction.
• Cartoons
• Shooting some spice into space
• The Reporter's Dilemma: when you're interviewing starving children, is it ethical to give them money?
  by Michael Wines
• A college town back on its feet
  by Susan Saulny
• Banking for their future
• The first amendment: a user's guide the most famous words in the constitution protect a host of rights for Americans—and still spur debate after 215 years
  by Adam Liptak
• Game show
• Skull overkill
• Nine-year-old alone Banda works six days a week: he's one of 49 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who are forced to work for a living. While child-labor rates are falling in most of the world, they're still on the rise in Africa
  by Michael Wines
• An American in Tehran: a 19-year-old from the Midwest who spends summers with his family in Iran talks about how Iranian teens bend the rules to have fun
• What do you know about the science of addiction?
• A man basked
• Downloading a slice of America
• 1791: The bill of rights: the constitution might never have been ratified without a promise to add safeguards of fundamental, rights
  by Adam Liptak
• The science of addiction
  by Nora D. Volkow
• Frogs airlifted to safety
• Iraq what we're not seeing: more than 2,600 American soldiers have died in Iraq since 2003. Chances are, you haven't seen many photos like this one. David Carr explores some of the reasons why
  by David Carr
• Should the records of ballplayers who used steroids count? As the baseball season winds down, the debate over steroid use continues to heat up
  by Donald M. Hooton
• Lesson plan & reproducible