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...that america has become the pothole of the world economy? I think it's because the American people, losing their frontier spirit, sat back, relaxed and enjoyed their opulent status quo. They wallowed in their country's No. 1 position in the world too long. They have to reawaken themselves in a belt-tightening way, not in a nebulously optimistic one. Il-Hwan Lee, Seoul...
...contemporary problems. “They were asking, ‘Is anything wrong with the makeup of our culture that has led us to where we are now?’” Wang says. “[Filmmakers] had a lot of interest in going to frontier areas to observe the ethnic minorities’ ways of life, to use them as a frame of reference to reflecting China proper...
...that's the second domestic challenge: the realization that Congress will not give Obama everything he wants. Aides say the President's moments of frustration almost always have to do with Congress. "We know that not every wagon makes it across the frontier," says a top Obama adviser. "But we're not willing to decide yet which wagons are going to make it and which aren't." In fact, that decision seems more and more apparent: Congress is unlikely to pass the linchpin of Obama's alternative-energy initiative - a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions to combat global...
...which, Obama's advisers should tell him, is beside the point. As Andres Martinez points out in an essay in Slate, Mexico and the U.S. are "fortunate to border each other." The 2,000-mile-long frontier between the two nations - each with very different economic histories, traditions and standards of living - is remarkably peaceful, and has been for more than a century and a half. O.K., the U.S.-Mexico border is not Scandinavian-placid like the 49th parallel, but by comparison with pairs seen elsewhere in the world, Mexico and the U.S. are pretty good neighbors...
...move from one discipline to the next, from the arts to the sciences.”Edwards, who teaches “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences,” created the course to encourage artists and designers to dream, and subsequently arrive, at the frontier of science.“You’re not in art or in science but at the border of something we think of as opposites,” says Tarik Umar ’10, one of Edwards’ former students. “But that?...