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...border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line" and "Gatekeeper." But they did not deter the illegal immigrants and their "coyote" smugglers for long. Instead, the crackdown has driven them into the Southwestern deserts, where much of the land adjacent to the unfenced U.S.-Mexican border is privately owned by ranchers...
...just on the new frontier that workers are missing; there aren't enough old-economy employees either. In France alone, as many as 50,000 construction jobs are unfilled, and there are an additional 20,000 or so open for truck drivers. Europe does not have enough accountants, welders or machine-tool operators. And as traditional production sectors become more service oriented, there is a crying need for people with advanced technical skills who can also talk intelligibly to clients. University enrollment has dropped to below replacement levels for highly qualified but unglamorous professions like chemical and metallurgical engineers...
...giving Steve Case some hints as to how a tech behemoth should act. Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected to be next frontier of all things e-. AOL owns 90 percent of the 150-million-strong IM market and, more important, has continually thwarted attempts by Microsoft and other small IM players to tap into its system and reach its users. TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor says that's just the kind...
...pockets. And unlike the Susan B. Anthony dollar of the 1980s--a wimpy, woefully misshapen quarter--the new Sacagawea dollar has the gravity and import of the pound. It looks and feels like something you might see in an Old West saloon, perfect for a nation that worships its frontier past. (It's no accident that an Indian princess and scout decorates the face...
Forst played minor league ball in the Frontier League for two years, becoming a fixture at short for the Springfield Capitals. He sat in dugouts that make Harvard's dugout benches look like luxury boxes. He endured twelve-hour bus rides from North Nowhere to East Hickville. He was occasionally hosted by families in the towns he visited, as he made barely enough cash to keep him going. And he cherished every minute...