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...from glorious end for a river that for 140 years has been the most tangible physical divide between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the symbolic frontier between the two dominant cultures of the New World. As I skipped stones across the river's mouth with just one bounce, I felt vaguely disappointed. The Rio Grande ought at least live up to its name and course majestically eastward before spilling vigorously into the gulf...
...image of the farmer: his supposed independence and self-sufficiency, taps a sympathetic vein among the urban public. They see farmers as the last bastion of the frontier spirit and American individualism. As one Bush strategist put it, the farmer is the "last vestige of American heroism, out there alone with God and the elements...
...convocation speech for HILR, Shinagel suggested that part of the "last frontier" of continuing education programs should be retirement communities built as parts of learning in retirement programs...
...made possible not only by a satellite's panoramic perspective but also by new sonar techniques that peer through waters that are miles deep. Oceanographers who once devoted years to analyzing information from infrequent research trips are deluged with data that are yielding the secrets of earth's last frontier...
...next morning the column left Herat for the remaining 3 1/2-hour ride to the frontier. As soon as the vehicles rumbled across the Soviet border into Kushka, broad smiles spread across the faces of troopers who had been tense through much of the journey; a few jumped off their vehicles to dance with local Turkmen women. For the men in the convoy and an additional 10,000 withdrawn during the past two weeks, the war was over. Asked what the pullback meant to them, the soldiers generally repeated the official line of having "fulfilled their internationalist duty," though one lieutenant...