1.   The study of the brain is often described as the next intellectual frontier.

2.   And no less a light than physicist Stephen Hawking predicts that the next frontier for science will be the re-engineering of human DNA.

3.   Architects and engineers agree that making computers talk to other computers is the next frontier.

4.   As they tackle the next frontier of health care costs, however, insurers are confronted with the problem of determining which expenses are warranted.

5.   Before that, however, the next frontier is conquering Shanahan, and then avoiding a second-half dip.

6.   A number of major dealers have moved northwest to Chelsea, the next art frontier.

7.   But the next logical frontier for this kind of economic consciousness raising is in a place you might least expect it -- the corporate world.

8.   Classroom connections are the next frontier.

9.   Colborn confidently predicted that chemical effects on the thyroid gland will prove the next frontier of the field.

10.   Colombia could be the next frontier for some of the multinational cigarette giants.