Word: frontierment
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...absence of Lewis and Clark from the pageant of popular American history. Without them, there would still be stirring tales of exploration but none that turn on the exquisite irony of an adolescent Indian girl giving crucial advice to two male Army officers. There would still be images of frontier adversity but none so stunning as that of Lewis expecting to see a path to the Pacific but discovering endless ranks of mountains instead. There would still be historical markers on western highways but none that lead thousands of miles to the sea and allow the pilgrim at every stop...
...these remaining patches of wilderness that the endangered bears are making their last stand. We don't have much left to offer of what the grizzlies need: big, wild country without roads. They need these lands desperately, absolutely: lands that are an echo of what was once an unbroken frontier...
...cloning debate rages in Washington, there is news from the scientific frontier. It involves cows, but tomorrow it could easily involve humans...
...Parliament. An original sponsor of the E.U.'s data-protection legislation, he turned against it, he said, when late amendments under- mined its language. His compatriot, Rome law professor Stefano Rodot?, who helped draft the E.U.'s Charter of Fundamental Rights, views the new European law as the "last frontier" of compromise between data protection and national security. Phone and Internet companies are also unsettled. "As a global company, we would prefer a harmonized approach," says Richard Purcell, Microsoft's director of corporate privacy, while the E.U. directive "will likely create a patchwork of laws." For example, he says, data...
...been ruled out. The big risk, however, is that no matter what Musharraf does, there are enough jihadis already in Kashmir to keep hammering India with suicide bombs and death squads. Four people were killed by terrorists Friday night in Kashmir, even as heavy shelling continued at the frontier and an unmanned Indian spy plane was shot down by the Pakistani air force. Any small spark can still push Vajpayee to deploy his soldiers in some punitive counterattack on Pakistan, which can lead to full-scale...