Word: frontierment
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...only one living in fear along this border, where China's ethnic Koreans are concentrated and Korean is as much the lingua franca as Chinese. Unlike the heavily guarded demilitarized zone that delineates North Korea's border with the South, this is a porous, Wild West frontier, teeming with traders, smugglers, government agents and bride traffickers. More than 300,000 North Koreans were in the area in 1999, according to a clandestine survey carried out by Good Friends. The lucky ones live with relatives or find their way to an underground missionary shelter. The others are often at the mercy...
...Some scientists blame climate change; others finger a mega-outbreak of disease. Still others subscribe to what Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery refers to as the "black-hole theory of extinction." In this case, as Flannery wryly explains in his just published ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier (Atlantic Monthly Press; $27.50), the black hole lay between the nose and chin of our Stone Age ancestors...
Frederick Jackson Turner had it easy. The historian forecast the end of the American frontier--and then he died. Dan Burden is left with the complicated reality of a country not just short on frontier but seemingly out of space altogether. Even in midsize cities and 'burbs, traffic congestion can be so extreme that a walk to the market is impossible, biking downtown a flirtation with death. Burden, director of the High Springs, Fla., nonprofit Walkable Communities Inc., has figured out what to do. He's the guy people call to get their space back...
...Thailand's wild west is a tense mix of Thai soldiers, Burmese rebels and smugglers of jade, gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...
...Europeans say: Russia's concerns should slow the pace of expanding NATO, particularly into the territories along the Russian frontier. On Balkan peacekeeping, the Europeans want Washington to maintain its commitments. And the Europeans want to expand their own military capability to be less dependent on Washington's leadership in responding to crises such as those in the Balkans...