Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would disagree, but, as Schaller knows, the comforting image of Siberia as the world's last pristine northern frontier also misses the mark. Kamchatka is but a tiny piece of Siberia, and elsewhere this continent-size region has been grievously wounded, and continues to be wounded today. "Let's say you decide to get away from it all in Siberia," says Alexei Yablokov, Russia's leading environmentalist and once President Boris Yeltsin's top adviser on ecology. "You travel up the Yenisey River toward the Arctic. You look across the empty tundra and think you are alone in nature, miles...
...great, but they were a studio band. And Elvis was great, but he was a good ole boy, not a revolutionary. Jerry has been a revolutionary, a warrior, as long as I've known him. He battled for the American soul, out there on the edge of a dangerous frontier--battling the forces of the Grinch, the forces of darkness. It was a typical old flower-child battle for the forces of good and mercy and gentleness and mischief. You can't work that frontier without getting into some danger now and then. The dire wolf finally...
...that could change our view of how the planet--and the life-forms on it--evolved; natural substances that could yield new medicines and whole new classes of industrial chemicals. Beyond those practical benefits there is the intangible but real satisfaction that comes from exploring earth's last great frontier...
...Croat federation, on the basis of a 49%-51% allocation of territory. Milosevic would not only recognize the union but also make certain that the peace plan is accepted by the so far intransigent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Serbia would in addition promise to seal more effectively its frontier with Bosnian Serb-held territory (an 11-month-old closure the U.N. has so far certified as essentially effective) and agree to the deployment of more U.N. monitors along the border...
last week Yugoslavia won a 75-day extension of the suspension of some sanctions, allowing international air travel as well as cultural and sports exchanges. The U.N. certified that according to its frontier monitors Belgrade has been living up to the commitment to keep all but food, clothing and medical supplies from crossing into Serb-held Bosnia; whatever leakage the U.N. detected it considered "not significant." Says a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "Milosevic closes his eyes to certain things on the border, but then it's impossible to totally close a border in the Balkans...