October 6, 2006
Jordan's Ambitious Plan
A country with few natural resources hopes to build its intellectual capital by expanding its higher-education system
Jordan, as its citizens are so keenly aware, often comes up short when compared with its neighbors. A small, poor, desert country, it lacks the oil and natural-gas resources found in the Persian Gulf. It will never have Egypt's seemingly bottomless work force. And it lacks the cosmopolitan appeal of Lebanon.
Yet its shortcomings have inspired one of the country's
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