17/06/2010 | Sociedad
The power of education is the real gold in Afghanistan
Amid all the dark news from Afghanistan, every now and then a sliver of light slips through the cracks.Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals. Trillions rich. It's going to become the Saudi Arabia of lithium, they say. Thanks to vast stores of that resource, plus iron, copper, cobalt and gold, this impoverished, war-torn nation could become a wealthy nation.
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