Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Some rural counties get it. If you are competing in the global economy, you will compete on the basis of brainpower. Period.
Here's a good case from Southwest Virginia in the middle of the coal fields. Buchanan County is proposing a school of pharmacy to add to its successful law school. (The school, started in 1997, is filled to capacity and adding $12 million a year to the local economy.)
In sum, the county is building an education cluster. Smart move.
In 1856, Cyrus Chambers, Jr. of Pennsylvania patented the first practical U.S. folding machine to fold paper for books and newspapers.
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Rural Virginia county builds an education cluster
