You are going to do two layout projects that require you to use Adobe Indesign and Photoshop.
Below, I give you some stories to lay out in a five-column format. One of them will be an infographic that should appear in the lower left two columns of your page.
You must write all the material for your front page, including the name of your publication, headlines and and any other graphic material.
Here's an example of a publication I did with InDesign.

Story 1:
But the machines didn't always work as travelers expected. Many people who spent a minute or so standing on a brand-new ShoeScanner before getting to a checkpoint had to remove their shoes anyway and put them through checkpoint X-rays because the ShoeScanner found metal in their footwear. ShoeScanners, which are planned for four other airports in coming weeks, can detect only explosives. "It's a waste of time," Tracey Grenkoski of Orlando said after spending more than a minute on a ShoeScanner only to be told she had to remove her high-heeled shoes at the checkpoint. "What's the point of me standing there if I still have to take my shoes off?" Grenkoski had plenty of company. Of 50 travelers who used the ShoeScanner in a one-hour period this morning in Orlando, 28 had to remove their shoes. ShoeScanners were intended to boost the fledgling Registered Traveler program, which promises a fast trip through airport security for people who voluntarily enroll by paying about $100 a year and passing a background check. The program, which has operated only in Orlando, will expand soon to Terminal 7 at New York's Kennedy International and in coming weeks to airports in Indianapolis, San Jose and Cincinnati. Verified Identity Pass, a Manhattan company that manages Registered Traveler programs for airports, presented the ShoeScanner last year to the Transportation Security Administration for approval. General Electric's GE Security, which makes the $200,000 machine, hoped it would be approved to screen shoes for both explosives and metal weapons. But the TSA approved the ShoeScanner only for explosives because it had no way of measuring the machine's ability to find metal weapons in shoes, said GE Security product manager Daniel Mahlum. The company is working with the TSA to get the ShoeScanner approved for detecting metal weapons, Mahlum said. Some Orlando travelers didn't mind having to remove their shoes after they'd been screened for explosives. "It doesn't make much [time] difference," Bob Halcrow said this morning, noting that even with a one-minute shoe scan, there was no line at Orlando's Registered Traveler lane while other security checkpoints had a 20-minute backup.

Story 2:
A man was stabbed in the back and chased by two men in unincorporated San Jose last night, Santa clara County sheriff's officials reported today. The 26-year-old victim was walking in the area of Sunol Street and Pacific Avenue at about 10 p.m. when the pair approached him and stabbed him in the back, Sgt. Ed Wise said. ``He fell to the ground, got up and started running for his life,'' Wise said. ``The suspects chased him for a little bit, then decided they were going to leave.'' The victim escaped and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police did not have details of his condition today.

Story 3: For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results. In 2005, fifty one percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000. Coupled with the fact that in 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including the ways government and employers distribute benefits.Several factors are driving the statistical shift. At one end of the age spectrum, women are marrying later or living with unmarried partners more often and for longer periods. At the other end, women are living longer as widows and, after a divorce, are more likely than men to delay remarriage, sometimes delighting in their newfound freedom.In addition, marriage rates among black women remain low. Only about 30 percent of black women are living with a spouse, according to the Census Bureau, compared with about 49 percent of Hispanic women, 55 percent of non-Hispanic white women and more than 60 percent of Asian women.In a relatively small number of cases, the living arrangement is temporary, because the husbands are working out of town, are in the military or are institutionalized. But while most women eventually marry, the larger trend is unmistakable.“This is yet another of the inexorable signs that there is no going back to a world where we can assume that marriage is the main institution that organizes people’s lives,” said Prof. Stephanie Coontz, director of public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit research group. “Most of these women will marry, or have married. But on average, Americans now spend half their adult lives outside marriage.” Professor Coontz said this was probably unprecedented with the possible exception of major wartime mobilizations and when black couples were separated during slavery.William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, a research group in Washington, described the shift as “a clear tipping point, reflecting the culmination of post-1960 trends associated with greater independence and more flexible lifestyles for women.”“For better or worse, women are less dependent on men or the institution of marriage,” Dr. Frey said. “Younger women understand this better, and are preparing to live longer parts of their lives alone or with nonmarried partners. For many older boomer and senior women, the institution of marriage did not hold the promise they might have hoped for, growing up in an ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ era.”Emily Zuzik, a 32-year-old musician and model who lives in the East Village of Manhattan, said she was not surprised by the trend. “A lot of my friends are divorced or single or living alone,” Ms. Zuzik said. “I know a lot of people in their 30s who have roommates.”Ms. Zuzik has lived with a boyfriend twice, once in California where the couple registered as domestic partners to qualify for his health insurance plan. “I don’t plan to live with anyone else again until I am married,” she said, “and I may opt to keep a place of my own even then.”Linda Barth, a 56-year-old magazine editor in Houston who has never married, said, “I used to divide my women friends into single friends and married friends. Now that doesn’t seem to be an issue.” Sheila Jamison, who also lives in the East Village and works for a media company, is 45 and single. She says her family believes she would have had a better chance of finding a husband had she attended a historically black college instead of Duke. “Considering all the weddings I attended in the ’80s that have ended so very, very badly, I consider myself straight up lucky,” Ms. Jamison said. “I have not sworn off marriage, but if I do wed, it will be to have a companion with whom I can travel and play parlor games in my old age.”Carol Crenshaw, 57, of Roswell, Ga., was divorced in 2005 after 33 years and says she is in no hurry to marry again.“I’m in a place in my life where I’m comfortable,” said Ms. Crenshaw, who has two grown sons. “I can do what I want, when I want, with whom I want. I was a wife and a mother. I don’t feel like I need to do that again.

Story 4:
SANTA CRUZ — Hours after the fire, Bella wouldn't venture into the backyard. "What happened to your house?" Matt Carcerano gently asked Bella, his 16-month-old blonde "Labradoodle," as he shined a flashlight into their fire-ravaged two-room cottage on South Park Way. "The dog won't even go out there," he said. Firefighters credit Bella with saving Carcerano from the blaze. It was just before 3:30 a.m. in the morning Monday when Bella woke the 32-year-old welder for Granite Construction. The mix of "growl, whimper and bark" roused him after only an hour of sleep — he'd gotten home late from a trip to San Francisco — and just in time to rush out of the flame-engulfed cottage. "It was weird. I was sound asleep and she made noises I'd never heard before," he said. "I opened my eyes and it was just orange" The floor-to-ceiling wall heater in the 50-year-old Eastside cottage was on fire. Mike Venezio, a Santa Cruz Fire Department battalion chief, called Bella a lifesaver. There were no smoke detectors in the studio.The Wards plan to rebuild the cottage and Carcerano said he has lots of options, calling the fire a "pitchfork in the road" "It's good to have good people in your life," he said. And he has Bella, who should be back for her two-hour morning excursions at Lighthouse Field and Its Beach soon. "I think she knew she needed to get me up," Carcerano said. "She got me out" Carcerano said those interested in helping him get back on his feet would be better served sending donations to the Santa Cruz SPCA, 2260 7th Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

Story 5:
BAGHDAD, Jan. 16 — More than 80 people died in a trio of bomb attacks that blew up around the capital today, as United Nations officials released a report estimating that more than 34,000 civilians were killed across Iraq last year and warning that the violence was “likely to continue” in the absence of a functioning justice system. Two of the bombs exploded in quick succession at Baghdad University as students were leaving classes, killing at least 60 people and wounding at least 110, Interior Ministry officials said. One was detonated by a suicide bomber and one was placed in a car, but it was not clear in which order they were detonated. At least 15 other people died and 70 were wounded by another pair of bombs in central Baghdad in a market devoted to motorcycle and stereo shops, not far from a Sunni mosque, officials said. The mosque was not believed to be the target. And two members of an elite police bomb disposal unit and two civilians were killed when the second of a pair of bombs the officers were working to defuse exploded. Today’s violence and the U.N. report’s chilling portrait on civilian deaths underscored the depth of the security problem facing American military officials as they prepare to deploy more troops there as part of a new strategy that for the first time makes the protection of civilians the war effort’s highest priority. The report by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq was based on figures provided by from the Medico-Legal Institute in Baghdad and hospitals around the country. It estimated that 34,452 civilians were violently killed in 2006 — an average of 94 a day — and that a addition 36,685 were wounded. The report said that the level of violence appeared to have declined toward the end of the year — 3,462 violent deaths were recorded for November and 2,914 for December, compared with 3,345 in September and 3,702 in October — although it noted that some provinces had not yet reported December figures.The head of the mission, Gianni Magazzeni, told reporters that a cycle of revenge killings and reprisals has escalated in the absence of an effective and impartial justice system. "If people don’t have a sense that justice is done, unfortunately this sectarian violence is likely to continue,” Mr. Magazzeni said. “Ensuring accountability would go a long way to help turning the tide.”The report described a “growing sense of impunity for on-going human rights violations,” a development that it said “leads people to take the law into their hands and rely on actions by militias or criminal gangs.”The report also noted that law-enforcement agencies are ineffective and that militias and criminal gangs increasingly work in collusion with or have infiltrated the official security forces. The report was also critical of American and other international troops, whose operations it said “cause severe suffering to the local population.” Saying that limitations on freedom of movement and lack of access to basic services effect a large part of the population, it called on coalition troops to “refrain from any excessive use of force.” The report released today found the killing centered in Baghdad, where it said more than 16,000 civilian deaths from violence were recorded. It noted that some parts of the country, notably in the Shiite-dominated south and in Kurdistan in the north, were “relatively safer.” But it also reported that some areas have become more violent recently, including the ethnically mixed northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. Around the country, the report described a deteriorating situation for women and minorities, including Palestinians and Christians, and said that attacks on professional groups “continued unabated.”Many of Iraq’s educated elite have fled the country, and Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki paid a visit to Baghdad University late last year to urge students and professors not to leave in the face of continued violence.

Story 6:
The 8 pound, 6½-ounce boy was born by Caesarean section at 7:23 a.m. CT at St. Tammany Hospital. He was in good shape, doctors said. Before the procedure Rebekah and Glen Markham had decided that if their baby was a boy, he would be named after the biblical builder of the Ark. A girl would have been Hannah Mae — Hannah means "God has favored us." Relatives gathered around as Glen Markham, grinning proudly, carried the tiny blanket-wrapped bundle topped by a pink-and-blue cap out of the operating room. For a few seconds he tried to make them guess whether the baby was a boy or a girl. Then he said "It's a boy!" to an eruption of cheers and applause. Rebekah Markham's mother, Lezette Crosby, got on the telephone to another relative: "It's Noah! It's Noah! It's a boy!" "All babies are miracles. But we have some special miracles," said Wanda Stogner, a cousin of Rebekah Markham. One of the people who made Noah's birth possible joined the family about shortly after Noah was born and was hugged by both grandmothers. "I'm the guy who rescued the embryos," said Roman Pyrzak, lab director for The Fertility Institute of New Orleans. When Katrina struck, the future Noah was one of 1,400 embryos frozen in canisters of liquid nitrogen at a hospital in eastern New Orleans. Rebekah Markham, 32, had evacuated before the hurricane with their toddler, Glen Witter "Witt" Markham Jr. Her husband, a New Orleans police officer, stayed to work. Mother and son actually evacuated twice. The first time was to relatives' about a half-hour from their home among 40-foot-tall pine trees in Covington. But when the storm toppled trees and cut electricity across south Louisiana, that first refuge became a poor place to care for a toddler who had turned 1 only 10 days before Katrina, so they went to Rebekah Markham's sister's home in central Louisiana. A cellphone text message — "R U OK?" — the day after the storm told her that her husband had survived. He was stationed across the Mississippi River from flooded parts of the city. But it had its own dangers. One member of his squad was shot in the head on Aug. 29 after confronting looters at a gas station. Markham, 42, never got his wife's answer to his text query because his phone's battery was dead. "It was about two weeks before I found out that they were OK," he said. In the meantime, Pyrzak and Dr. Belinda "Sissy" Sartor of the Fertility Institute had led seven Illinois Conservation Police officers and three Louisiana State Police officers to the facility in flat-bottomed boats brought from Illinois. Witt is also an in-vitro baby. His embryo was created at the same time as Noah's, but it was implanted immediately, while five others were frozen in case of miscarriage. The Markhams aren't sure if they'll have a third child. "I thought three would be the ideal number," Rebekah Markham has said. But her medical problems have required bed rest for the first three months of each pregnancy. "And I was even more sick with this one than with Witt." They also needed a lot of family help to take care of Witt, a boy who never seems to stop running. So any decision probably will be postponed until both children are in school.

Space Junk Infographic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk.shtml

'Space junk' or 'space debris' is any artificial rubbish orbiting the Earth This could be anything from jettisoned rocket stages or satellite fragments down to loosened paint chips There may be over a million pieces of space junk currently orbiting the Earth. However, all but 9,000 of these are smaller than a tennis ball

What is space junk? Since the first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957, thousands of space probes, satellites and telescopes have been sent into space. Just as we have created rubbish mountains on Earth, we've also accumulated a blanket of junk around the Earth. This debris silently zooms around the globe at speeds of up to 25,000 miles per hour with altitudes ranging from hundreds to thousands of miles. NASA frequently replace windows on the space shuttle that have been damaged by objects as small as a flake of paint. How much junk is out there? Radar and optical monitoring can pinpoint the location of space debris only centimetres in size.

What is space junk? Space debris consists of: jettisoned spacecraft parts nuts and bolts solar cells abandoned satellites paint chips nuclear reactor cores spent rocket stages solid fuel fragments

The current estimate is that there are over a million bits of debris orbiting the Earth. About 70,000 objects about the size of a postage stamp have been detected between 850 - 1,000 km above the Earth. There are perhaps twice as many in the 1000 to 2000 km zone. Many of these at the lower altitude are probably frozen bits of nuclear reactor coolant that are leaking from old satellites. An additional problem is that this debris is breaking up. Explosions or collisions blast the objects into smaller pieces, increasing the number of objects further. More than 124 break-ups have been verified, and more are believed to have occurred. What are the dangers from debris? Although most of the debris in space is small, it's travelling extremely fast. Below altitudes of 2,000 km, the average relative impact speed is 36,000kmph (or 21,600 mph). Below 1000 km the speed is even greater At this speed, collision can be dramatic:

A 1mm metal chip could do as much damage as a .22-caliber long rifle bullet Bits this size don't generally pose a large threat to spacecraft, but can erode more sensitive surfaces and disrupt missions. A pea-sized ball moving this fast is as dangerous as a 400-lb safe travelling at 60 mph Debris this large may penetrate a spacecraft. If this happens through a critical component, such as the flight computer or propellant tank, this could be fatal. A metal sphere the size of a tennis ball is as lethal as 25 sticks of dynamite This debris will penetrate and seriously damage a spacecraft.

At geosynchronous altitude (35,900km), the relative speeds are lower - 720 kmph (432 mph). Geosynchronous orbit is one in which a satellite rotates around the Earth at the same rate as the planet spins. Many satellites are at this height so they can remain above one particular area of the world. Junk-free zones There are junk-free zones that are relatively clear. These are monitored and used to calculate the trajectory of spacecraft. In the past, NASA has had to adjust the flight path of space shuttles on at least eight occasions to avoid debris. Some research suggest that the collision risk from small particles is minimal. One study showed that a craft that had been in space for more than five years was struck by particles more than 30,000 times, with no ill effect. The Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS), located in El Segundo, California, was established in 1997 to study space debris, collision avoidance, and re-entry break up. In 1999, they estimated that 193,000kg of material re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.