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...rewarding and stable, if demanding, career. Nursing schools are filled to capacity. Last year they turned away more than 5,000 qualified applicants simply for lack of faculty--a significant loss to the pool of 70,000 nursing graduates each year. Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Fla., for example, has no openings in its registered-nursing program until...
...Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) failed to prepare adequately for the timely import and distribution of half a million tons of fertilizer, according to a former U.S. Department of Agriculture adviser to the CPA. Now, ramshackle vehicles that are supposed to be rushing the fertilizer from Jordan and the southern port city of Basra are stalling on Iraq's rutted, cratered roads. What's at stake is more than just another failed growing season's crops, which include maize, wheat and barley. Agriculture is Iraq's second largest economic sector and largest employer. If farmers have no work, that might fuel...
...First port of call is the Heeren Shops, packed with the city's jeunesse dorée. The 118 stores here retail everything from beachwear to collectible toys. On levels four and five there's a separate section known as the Annex-its 58 hole-in-the-wall shops are Heeren's funkiest, and there's a tattoo parlor and graffiti-filled café besides...
Overlooking Istanbul's Golden Horn, the historic neighborhood of Galata, founded as a Genoese trading port in the 14th century, has long served as a sanctuary for ethnic groups from around the world. Germans, French, British, Armenians, Greeks, Hungarians and Poles once lived there; Jews first settled in the area after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. These days Turkey's Jewish community keeps a low profile, however. Galata's Neve Shalom synagogue, the city's largest, is barely visible behind facade of corrugated iron, security cameras and private security guards. Two Turkish policeman had kept watch outside. Both were...
...Fulus, which means "father of money," was little used during Saddam Hussein's regime, but with U.N. sanctions against Iraq lifted and all import and customs controls unenforced, the port has become an unofficial entry point for used cars, electronics, clothes and food. There are no government officials here and no British soldiers from the garrison in Basra. Merchants walk up and down the dock, shouting purchase orders into satellite phones as young men in jeans with AK-47s guard against pirates who prowl the river in motorboats. As in the American frontier a century ago, fortunes are being made...