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...fantastically romantic notion, that thousands of young men and women could descend on a broken place and make it better, not decades from now but right away, hook up the high school Internet lab, send the Army engineers to repair the soccer field, teach the town council about Robert's Rules and all the while watch your back. They debate how much to tell their loved ones back home, who listen to each news report of victories won and lives lost with the acute attention that dread demands. They complain less about the danger than the uncertainty: they are told...
...Iraq, including companies from Germany and other nations that opposed the war. It's easy to understand why. Much of Iraq's ravaged infrastructure, which has been short of spare parts for more than a decade, was built by German, French or Russian firms. A prime contractor trying to repair power grids and oil-pumping stations would be doing a poor job if it didn't turn to the companies that installed them in the first place...
...rural outskirts of Hong Kong lies a site that was once a car-repair shop. Today it houses an experimental farm run by CK Life Sciences International. CK's chief technology officer, S.F. Pang, ambles around the lush, green grounds, extolling the virtues of one of the company's most successful products, NutriSmart fertilizer. NutriSmart is superefficient--a dose one-third the size of conventional chemical fertilizers provides the same crop yield--and because it's organic, it doesn't harm the environment. But most important, Pang insists, NutriSmart makes produce taste better. "Absolutely delicious," he purrs as he savors...
Royal Eijsbouts in the Netherlands—which also claims to be the world’s largest bell foundry—is currently working with the University of Chicago to repair the Rockefeller Chapel’s 72-bell carillon...
...Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry magazine, who is thinking back on a trip she made to Malaysia in 1972 in the company of John Slater, a goatish, prevaricating but celebrated poet. In Kuala Lumpur she stumbles upon Christopher Chubb, a disheveled Australian expatriate who has a bike-repair shop but also reads Rilke. Learning that Wode-Douglass is an editor, he tantalizes her, not with his own work but with a brilliant page by a "Bob McCorkle" and the promise of more...