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...banned as a bourgeois extravagance, and production rarely broke 20 tons a year. That started to change with economic reform in the 1990s. Small wildcat operations began to proliferate, and these relatively unsophisticated outfits dominate the sector today. While countries such as South Africa, Australia, the U.S. and Canada get most of their production from a few dozen large, efficient mines, China has an estimated 2,000 mines scattered throughout the country. And because of their sketchy practices, the smaller operators are "a problem," says Zhang Yongtao, general secretary of the China Gold Association. "Their technological standards are weak, their...
...many cases, they end up more knowledgeable about a company's product than the customer-service agents themselves. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly difficult to retain employees, making service inconsistent at best. Technology will fill these gaps and provide better, more consistent service. John Putters, President, Visionstate, Edmonton, Canada...
...Bucharest, the U.S., Canada and others have called on a handful of European countries to increase their troop and equipment contributions to the Afghan war. Speaking to European leaders in Germany last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that NATO "must not - cannot - become a two-tiered alliance of those who are willing to fight and those who are not." But according to commanders on the ground in Afghanistan, that two-tiered alliance is already here. While French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to announce at the summit that he is sending another 1,000 French troops...
...remaining alliance members have dispatched at least some troops or resources to aid in the effort. But under a system of national exceptions known as caveats, most have also stipulated that their troops not be sent to difficult areas, including the south. Within NATO, only the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark now have significant numbers of troops in the region. Because of caveats, Germans are not allowed to fight at night and Turks can't fire except in self-defense. In the view of U.S. and NATO officials, such restrictions are badly handicapping the entire alliance. Testifying before...
Certainly, those nations who have sent their forces into harm's way have suffered the greatest loss. Canada has seen 81 fatalities in Afghanistan, almost all of them in the past two years. Based on the size of Canada's contingent, that is a higher rate than the U.S. has sustained in Iraq. U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have risen, too. From 2002 to 2004, the Taliban killed one U.S. soldier a week; last year the rate was twice that...