Word: frontierment
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Mark the calendar: 2010 might be the year that TV's final frontier gets broken. Announced in early September, the newest models in the offing for late 2010 from Sony and Panasonic are bringing 3-D HDTV into the home. That is, if you're willing to wear the glasses...
Cross worries that all the attention will only further stigmatize the area as being stereotypically anti-Obama, on top of the reputation it already bears for illegal-drug cultivation, political corruption, government distrust and a general frontier mentality. He recalls the haranguing ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer took from Bill O'Reilly during an interview before the February broadcast of "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains," her documentary about life in central Appalachia, which includes Clay County. "He basically asked her why anyone should care about that area and said it's a lost cause...
...country's population that is composed of ethnic minorities. When Burma won independence from the British in 1948, political groups representing some of the country's 130-plus ethnicities agreed to join the union in exchange for autonomy. But uprisings quickly proliferated in the country's vast frontier, only worsening after the military regime wrested control of the country in 1962 and began limiting ethnic freedoms. Beginning in 1989, cease-fires were signed with 17 rebel militias, and certain ethnicities were granted a measure of self-rule. The junta claimed victory for having united one of the world's most...
...Tickets Something else about Jones' stadium is big: the prices. Like baseball parks and basketball-hockey arenas, football stadiums have for decades been evolving into places where an increasing amount of the real estate is devoted to premium-priced seating. In that department, Cowboys Stadium is the new frontier. About a third of the base seating capacity of 73,000 consists of suites - 325 of them - and high-priced "club seats" with access to various bar-lounges at escalating levels of luxury. Those seats require that you first buy a 30-year license, which costs between...
...recent weeks, public attention in India over what is perceived to be the growing threat lurking north of the border has reached feverish levels . Tensions along the Himalayan frontier with China have spiked noticeably since a round of Sino-Indian talks over long-standing territorial disputes this summer ended in failure. In their wake, the frenetic Indian press have chronicled reports of nighttime boundary incursions and troop buildups, even while officials in both governments have downplayed such confrontations. Elements in the Indian media point almost daily to various signs of a Beijing plot to contain its neighbor's rise...