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...Iraqis in Stockholm fresh from Baghdad say the war is stripping Iraq of its skill base, driving out the people needed to rebuild the country's infrastructure, run businesses, and staff schools and hospitals. "For months people have been walking around Baghdad saying, 'Where's this person? Where's that person?'" says Raya, a 37-year-old doctor, a few hours after arriving in Stockholm. "Then someone will say: 'They've left; and they have left; and they have left.'" Raya, who did not want her last name published for fear her parents in Baghdad would be targeted, says...
...firms no doubt battle for some of the same customers, but Plastic Logic's Jones thinks there's room for both. And, as he sees it, the companies are pioneering processes and developing the supplier base that will make a new wave of high-tech gadgetry possible. "This commercialization is putting that infrastructure in place," Jones says. If he has his way, it will let him put electronics on just about anything...
...plans fifth military-ops base...
...Pentagon will relieve its Central and European Commands of overseeing military operations in Africa after it sets up a new command base there during fiscal 2008, which starts in October...
There have been times, especially during the late 1990s tech boom, when some business folk in the area thought they had outgrown their rich uncle. But their post-2000 experience, when other tech centers floundered but northern Virginia boomed, taught them otherwise. "You had your stable base coming from government contracting, and then you had this explosion around telecom, IT and the Internet," explains former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, who was a co-founder of Nextel and later a venture capitalist. "Then, after the bubble burst, you had this unfortunate need to build a homeland-security industry...