Does Cairo Need a Caltech?

摘要

On 2 June, Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail bounded onto a stage near Tahrir Square here to address a cheering crowd. The day before, he told them, Egypt's interim government had approved his cherished plan for a scientific renaissance in Egypt. His dream for a "Cairo Caltech"-a massive $2 billion science and technology city in the desert outside Cairo-is finally coming true.