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...Faisal points out that Saudi Arabia has done this before: The port towns of Jubail and Yanbu were built from scratch in the 1980s and '90s. But those were essentially designed to create industrial infrastructure, and little attention was given to the quality of life of those who had to move there. As a result, both cities have come to be seen as somewhat dreary outposts, better suited for workers living in dormitories than families...
...should have given more than just a mention to engineer Stephen Bechtel's monumental achievement in creating the entire municipality of Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It cannot have been easy to construct on the edge of the desert out of thin air. KHURRAM AHMED TAJI Islamabad, Pakistan...
...company built pipelines and power plants in the forbidding reaches of the Canadian Rockies, across the Arabian desert and through South American jungles, as well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built in 140 countries and on six continents. It has been said, hyperbolically perhaps, that Bechtel engineers changed the physical contours of the planet more than any other humans...
...flew over. Surely, he thought, the wasted energy could be put to some use. In 1973 he presented a plan to King Faisal, an old acquaintance: use the gas to power factories in a new city that Bechtel would build on the site of a tiny fishing village at Jubail. The city, still under construction, houses a steel mill and factories that make chemicals, plastics and fertilizer. The town is now home to 70,000 and growing...
...latest guess focuses on heavy industrial pollution around the Saudi city of Jubail, where many of the ailing troops were deployed. "I think we are dealing with, in some groups, a specific exposure to some kind of industrial chemical," said Major General Ronald Blanck, commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. That exposure may, in turn, have sensitized soldiers to the degree that their bodies can no longer tolerate minute, normally harmless amounts of environmental toxins...