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...just the income from the individual’s earnings that is lost. The income from all the people who die of treatable ailments or whose efficiency is reduced by poor healthcare is lost as well. Similarly, an engineer would have built a bridge that improved transport and would have had a multiplying effect in increasing efficiency in the economy. Brain drain is thus not about national prestige; it is a real hindrance to growth in the developing world. For all the hype about halving poverty in the developing world, little will be done without a competent, sizeable workforce...
...requested proposals for antibomb technology, BAE asked for and got permission from the British government to offer a classified product. The trust goes both ways: the Pentagon had no complaint when BAE announced last month that it was buying United Defense Industries, which makes the U.S. Army's critical transport, the Bradley fighting vehicle...
...favorites is Ero Tourism," says Henry. "My wife and I travel separately to the same foreign city by different modes of transport, and then try to find each other. We have done it and met six times. The moment we meet is always fantastic...
...Portugal, the BioRegional Development Group - the independent British environmental organization that started up BedZED - and the global conservation organization wwf are working with a developer to create a "one-planet living" ecotourism project south of Lisbon. Using 100% renewable energy and creating a transport network designed to virtually eliminate private cars, the Mata de Sesimbra development will combine a 4,800-hectare cork-forest restoration project with a 500-hectare tourism development. Based on their experiences with BedZED, BioRegional and wwf will be incorporating similar innovative ecological elements into the Portuguese project. They don't plan to stop at Europe...
...crowd of some 30,000 gathered around Toulouse 's Blagnac airport to cheer on the successful maiden flight of the super-jumbo A380, the plane Airbus has spent €13.2 billion developing in a bid to eject Boeing's 747 as the reigning big bird of long-haul air transport. Airbus predicts a 5% annual growth in passenger volume over the next 20 years, which is one reason for the A380's larger capacity of 555-840 seats, versus the 747's 416-524 limit. The aircraft, which enters service next year, sports new fuel-efficient technology and larger cargo...