Word: frontierment
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...defenders of traditional Aussie values. The cultural warriors are fighting over the correct way to classify the feral Irwin. But during these days of brand marketing, what is the harm if people think Australians are excitable, love the outdoors and are high on life? Or that Australia is all frontier, with alien wildlife, dusty roads and a torrid climate? Why not let people hold those exotic thoughts, even if the reality is more mundane? If foreigners visit, or come to know their own Australian one day, they'll soon learn enough to think of us in the round...
...fissures are visible at multiple levels. The most obvious example is that of attack helicopters hunting down rebels in Baluchistan and the tribal areas of our northwest frontier?rebels who are our fellow citizens. But equally dangerous is the chronic failure of our provinces to agree on new dams essential to meeting our future needs for water. Or the inability of our society to channel dissent into debate, an inability that means the publication of cartoons in a newspaper in Denmark is able to provoke not just a response in our own newspapers but also riots that transform our cities...
...advances in its nuclear program--emerged as the dominant power in the Middle East. Despite the trauma of financial crisis and depression, China became the new hegemon of East Asia. And Russia used its oil riches and nuclear leverage to restore its dominance over Eastern Europe, rolling back the frontier of the European Union. Although all adopted the outward forms of democracy, none of those three powers had much interest in advancing individual liberty and the rule of law, without which elections are a sham. All three had an interest in weakening America...
...Number of illegal immigrants detained by the U.S. Border Patrol on the U.S.-Mexico frontier since June 15, the lowest summer tally since...
...Richmond, Davidson, William and Mary, and George Washington. "People are starting to understand that a lot of the Southern schools in general are great," she says. The second broke north into Canada to visit McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. Cuseo calls Canada "the new frontier...