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...economist Christopher L. Foote flew to Baghdad to help rebuild Iraq’s economy. He was part of a team of American economists charged with revitalizing Iraq after decades of devastating international sanctions and repressive state control...
...lowered standards for physical fitness and education; even felons have become soldiering material as the armed forces pursues basic recruiting targets. The Army is paying huge re-enlistment bonuses in an effort to retain captains, who are quitting at alarming rates. It will take decades of investment to rebuild our military strength to pre-war levels...
...because people have left with their life savings, all of which are now sitting in banks in Jordan and Syria. And you also have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left are the exact kinds of people Iraq needs to rebuild itself. You need to have your doctors, engineers, university professors to rebuild your country from chaos. Those are the people who have fled...
Scientific cooperation has long had a critical, if unsung, supporting role in international diplomacy, helping to rebuild economies from the ashes of World War II and eventually winding down the Cold War. But despite these successes, critics say Washington's record of integrating science and technology into foreign policy in recent years has been decidedly mixed...
...population had been declining for years. Jobs had grown scarce, and few in the shrinking high school classes stayed after graduation. "We were barely making it before the tornado," says Wylan Fleener, whose century-old furniture store was reduced to a pile of bricks by the storm. Why rebuild a dying town...