The devastation brought by two massive earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria a week ago is becoming ever clearer. Millions of people have been left homeless or afraid to go even into buildings that are still standing. Yet more danger is posed by freezing overnight temperatures. And an ambitious survey is being carried out door to door, asking people all kinds of things about sex.
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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