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Indeed, there is positive evidence that, at least in the United States, more guns means less crime. Whatever the sociological explanation, be it a national character rooted in the frontier experience or the distinctive American antipathy to letting government do what we can accomplish on our own, the numbers are clear. Over 20 states today permit law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns in public. Such laws have led unequivocally to marked decreases in crime. They have cut murder by 7.65 percent, rape by 5.2 percent, and aggravated assault by seven percent. The seminal analysis by University of Chicago researcher...
When Leland Stanford founded his university in 1885, California was caught up in the frontier, in the prime of the Gold Rush. Now, Stanford University is caught up in a new Gold Rush--the Internet era that may have the power to push Stanford above its peer schools and into serious contention with Harvard...
...Palo Alto of the 1970s was a sleepier, slower place than it is today, according to Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. Todd III, who spent 16 years as a Stanford professor. But Stanford was exciting and entrepreneurial. The university was a frontier where students and professors got to be technology cowboys, building up the industry by creating companies like Yahoo!--the concoction of two Stanford students, and one of today's most profitable Internet companies...
...frontier... and that's what we do," he says. "We push it. And I think students like that...
Near the beginning of Walden, Thoreau writes that "it would be some advantage to live in a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy...