• It had been a frontier town and the older inhabitants still told stories of Indian battles.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • He recalls a "little frontier town" where you could initially recognize almost every screen name you came across.

    CNN: The good ol' days of AOL chat rooms

  • But Pakistan, which backs Dostam, has already given the fledgling airline permission to fly to the frontier town of Peshawar.

    CNN: Week of

  • Aachen, the heart of the empire, became a frontier town.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • In 1882, they enter Appaloosa, a New Mexico frontier town, and offer their services to people who are being terrorized by a rapacious landowner and gang leader (Jeremy Irons).

    NEWYORKER: Appaloosa

  • After forty minutes of seemingly random shooting and riding and glaring, we learn that he intends to wreak havoc on the enemies of a utopian all-black frontier town named Freemanville.

    NEWYORKER: Posse

  • From Willow, where the race clock starts ticking, mushers and their dog teams will begin making their way through unforgiving wilderness toward the finish line in the old frontier town of Nome on Alaska's western coast.

    NPR: Iditarod Kicks Off With Festive Ceremonial Start

  • Urara, a town of about 50, 000 inhabitants on the Transamazon highway, is a typical frontier town with no running water, no sewerage and no airport - apart from small, clandestine landing strips, which some people say are used for drug trafficking.

    BBC: How illegal logging in Brazil's Amazon turns 'legal'

  • On the triple frontier border town of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, pirated Chinese Apple, Microsoft and brand name apparel are often smuggled across the border into Brazil for sale nationwide.

    FORBES: Introducing The China "HiPhone 5"; Apple Knock-Off Sells For $35

  • Israel said its warplanes had also bombed sites on the Egypt-Gaza frontier near the town of Rafah, including a mosque allegedly used as a weapons storage depot and militant training camp.

    BBC: Israel is 'nearing Gaza goals'

  • Just as fighting has dwindled in a ravaged zone around the northern town of Idlib near the Turkish frontier, it has popped up in the hitherto quiescent town of Raqqa in the centre of the country, and all along the Euphrates valley to the southeast.

    ECONOMIST: Syria��s uprising

  • H. (pop. 2, 600) looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • Hunkered down in the hills just 16 kilometers south of the Canadian border, Colebrook, New Hampshire (pop. 2, 600), looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • Dubs says the Chinese kept the ex-legionaries as frontier guards, installing them in a specially created town called Liqian in what is now Gansu.

    ECONOMIST: So it's said, anyway

  • The town of Kukes, 20 kilometers from the frontier with Yugoslavia, faces the toughest conditions with officials saying the community was being overwhelmed.

    CNN: refugees

  • His town of Chikoti(ph), which likes next to the frontier that separates Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, was cut off for several weeks from the rest of Pakistan by landslides.

    NPR: India, Pakistan's Post-Quake Peace in Jeopardy

  • On the same day over 20 people were killed in the western Pakistani town of Quetta, as suicide bombers attacked the deputy chief of Pakistan's Frontier Corps.

    ECONOMIST: Extremists wreak havoc in separate attacks

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