The magnitude of the earthquake was such that no government could have been prepared to cope with it. In places like Antakia, Adiyama and elsewhere, help rescue teams did not arrive for days. "I saw bodies wrapped in blankets being left there after being dug up by friends or relatives"
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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