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difference drives progress. Search London Business School or London.edu. So I'm in a section of town in Damascus called Rukhanan Dine.

It's a quiet residential neighborhood.

And I'm here because, like in many other parts of the city and in the country, metal detector stores have

been popping up all around here. A few weeks ago, Will Christu went to investigate a burgeoning

new business in free Syria, metal detectors. Before they weren't allowed during the time of the regime,

but now they seem to be all the rage.

Under Assad, they were considered a military tool and banned, but not anymore.

Inside the store was a bunch of different metal detectors on display.

And the name of this machine, again?

Extreme Hunter, from the company XPil, French.

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