Piotr Zelbsky is our Turkey correspondent who's been traveling throughout the area devastated by the earthquakes. More than 30,000 people are dead; that number does not include an additional 3,500 dead in Syria. The rescue effort continues, but increasingly it's beginning to resemble a mass exhumation effort. Perhaps even a hundred thousand people may still be trapped under 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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