education systems to match the needs of industry. with all the unrest the knee-jerk reaction has been to throw money at the problem. king abdullah of saudi arabia has pumped $129 million into near-term programs, a large sum for a population of just 26 million people. saudi arabia is home to a fifth of the energy reserves and remains at the heart of what is an unstable neighborhood with uprisings to the east in bahrain, south in yemen, and ongoing uncertainty to the north in iraq. i think saudi arabia is particularly concerned because it s linked to bahrain by the causeway and there are longstanding concerns about stability where the oil is. however, i don t think the unrest in bahrain does spell unrest in uae where the situations are quite different. while countries in the middle east recently undertook