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• n  the outside boundary or surface of something

• All areas on the periphery of the lakes in Bangalore are being commercialised with impunity and will ultimately make the city thirsty and angry.
• The lone human being in the area, a trapper living near the periphery of the blast, was blown off the porch of his shack, but survived.
• The Baker plan reportedly doesn't specify whether those troops should actually be pulled out of the country, or simply redeployed to bases on the periphery; nor does it provide any .

• fringe
• outer boundary

News & Articles

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• Leaving Granny Behind
  Young people across the European periphery are fleeing their home countries in droves. Most seeking better opportunities in Germany - for now. This isn't the point of this post but US should seriously consider the opportunity and humanity in letting those young people come here. In any case their rapid depature is raising concerns about how the welfare state in their home countries will be ...
  June 12, 2013 - Forbes
• Thai Muslims debate their future as peace talks raise hope
  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Huddled in a room on the periphery of a university campus in the southern Thai province of Pattani, Muslim students debate ideas that have long been considered inflammatory or even treasonous. An insurgency by shadowy Muslim fighters in predominantly Buddhist Thailand's three southernmost provinces has claimed 5,700 lives since 2004. ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Guest Post: The Core-Periphery Model
  Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog , What assets will the core/Empire protect? Those of the core. What will be sacrificed? The periphery.   In periods of crisis, scarcity and instability, key resources flow from the periphery to the core.  We can witness this in plants, which respond to drought by sacrificing peripheral foliage (that fueled growth in times of abundance) to save ...
  June 11, 2013 - Zero Hedge

Quotes

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• Tiger Wood in Melbourne Herald Sun
  He told me I needed to get off my butt and play a good round today,Woods said yesterday. "I was on the periphery there. Here I am, back in contention."
• Jonathan Evans in Guardian Unlimited
  The security service will never have the capacity to investigate everyone who appears on the periphery of every operation,Evans said. "We must be honest about what can and cannot be prevented in a democratic society that values its...
• Barack Obama in AOL News Newsbloggers (blog)
  In a telling, autobiographical lamentation, Michelle writes that she fears her time at Princeton promises "further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of...