The death toll in Syria is lower than it is in Turkey, but the situation seems to be much more dire. Syrians in the north of the country do not have really a state whose resources they can draw on. Many Syrians are saying now that it's just too late. There are no survivors. Everyone is dead and the world has simply left those people for dead in the rubble.
Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear factor in the rising death toll—and a political backlash looms. Britain’s productivity problem is at least partly a problem with bad managers; we look at the substantial gains to be had from better-run companies. And the valuable data to come from an ambitious, national-scale sex survey.
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