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...ISAF's way is to convince people. A key part of that approach is providing infrastructure for the province, one of Afghanistan's poorest. The Australian Provincial Reconstruction Team has built a causeway over the Garmab Mandah River, and at Tarin Kowt rebuilt the provincial hospital, redeveloped a health center and refurbished schools. A trade school at Camp Holland teaches local youths carpentry and plumbing, though many prefer the easy money to be made by growing poppies and smuggling opium. A $5-million police training center is also planned. Australian Captain Mick Koen, a project engineer, says the troops...
...after Belgrade's capitulation, Greek peacekeeping troops told some 300 Serb villagers that they could no longer guarantee their safety. They fled en masse, and every home was subsequently burned to the ground by Albanians from out of town. Last year, the first 40 brick houses were rebuilt on the land, and a few of the mostly older Serb residents began to trickle back from their exile in Serbia...
...push a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the country through Congress. American legislators are taken to flower farms that live off of exports to the United States, meetings with President Alvaro Uribe and business and labor leaders. Optional stops include textile plants, urban slums and remote villages being rebuilt from the ashes of guerrilla and paramilitary violence...
Once they arrive, the first stop is often Warsaw's old market square, or Rynek Starego Miasta, which was gutted by the Nazis during the Warsaw uprising and rebuilt from scratch in the 1950s. A pastel-tinted masterpiece of reconstruction, the townscape fools most visitors and provides a gorgeous backdrop for the square's many outdoor cafes, art galleries and shops. The square is home to Fukier, the city's finest restaurant, whose sumptuous decor and attentive staff have been enjoyed by Presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac--not, mind you, at the same time. Traditional Polish sour soup...
...Meanwhile, attempts to renovate the mental hospital and geriatric center in Kovin, which houses more than 800 patients, have failed, and the 80-year-old buildings will have to be completely demolished and rebuilt from scratch, Serbian health authorities said. "This institution is beyond repair," said Milan Milic, the warden. "We'll have to figure out where to move the patients in the meantime. They'll just have to adapt...