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...want to dwell on either the force of arms or politics. We were conscious that Europe had changed, and in many ways for the better - but we knew that it still had great challenges ahead. So we set out to produce an issue with the theme Europe's New Frontiers. Jim Ledbetter, a senior editor of Time Atlantic who masterminded the project, says, "From the beginning, when we asked writers to suggest stories, it became clear that we were asking people to think of frontiers in an entirely different way. The suggestions were so strong and varied that I knew...
...fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tiny nation (pop. 1.35 million) has managed to put itself on the edge...
...Once the commercial guys like Branson or UP Aerospace perfect a reliable, low-cost spacecraft, the space frontier becomes officially open for business to pursue what until recently seemed impossible: Snag an asteroid into low-earth orbit to mine its minerals. Launch solar satellites to beam down all the cheap power we can use. Build space hotels for family tourism. "Whether it means flying a rocket to an inflatable hotel in low-earth orbit, these are far-fetched, fantasy things that are out there but suddenly become a little more real when you have private entrepreneurs trying to figure...
...artist. In Snow White Lucie (1997), Dolène faces a camera in an empty film studio and sings Some Day My Prince Will Come. In subtitles she explains how Disney continued to use her voice without permission, how she sued - and won. But at the poignant frontier between image and reality, memory and identity, Dolène recalls that when she gave her voice to Disney's animated princess, "I was Snow White ... it's my voice, but it doesn't belong to me anymore." Of course, Huyghe's work is not to everyone's taste. France...
...areas bordering Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has complained that Pakistan's tolerance of extremists operating from its territory has helped them gain a stronger foothold in his own country, is furious that Musharraf recently signed a truce with pro-Taliban Pakistani tribal leaders in the North West Frontier Province. That truce calls for Pakistani troops to end their military campaign against militants in exchange for their ending attacks on Pakistani forces and cross-border raids into Afghanistan. Karzai doesn't trust the militants to live up to their part of the bargain...