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英語新聞報導原文Words in the News一般是星期五在網上發表。
Higher salaries for Iraqi professionals
The Iraqi government says it's going to double the salaries of university professors as part of a bid to stem the brain drain in the country. Doctors, teachers and businessmen have all been leaving Iraq because they don't feel safe. This report from Caroline Hawley:
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Under Saddam Hussein around four million people are thought to have left Iraq, among them some of the country's most qualified professionals. Just after the war some exiles did return but more than two years on the country's brain drain, far from being reversed, is continuing, at a rate that's alarming many Iraqis.
University teachers will now see their salaries doubled to try to keep them in the country but the problem isn't confined to the campus. Doctors are fleeing too with worrying consequences for a health service already struggling with shortages of equipment and with the number of casualties they're treating.
Iraq's medical union believes that over the past two years around three hundred doctors have either been kidnapped or had a member of their family abducted for ransom. Others have received death threats and dozens of university professors have also been killed. A senior government official told the BBC he believed Iraqi professionals were being systematically targeted.
Caroline Hawley, BBC, Baghdad
Key words
exiles
流亡者（尤指因政治原因被迫離境外逃者）
brain drain
人才外流
reversed
逆轉﹔倒行
confined to
局限于(某一范圍)內
fleeing
逃跑﹔離開
casualties
傷病人
abducted
綁架
ransom
贖金
targeted
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