Word: reconstructing
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...were aware for at least a moment of what was happening. "They went fast, thank God, but they knew they were in trouble," one astronaut told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. From interviews with NASA officials and members of the presidential commission investigating the disaster, Hannifin was able tentatively to reconstruct the astronauts' final moments. His report...
...Britain. Are there any lessons there for Europe? Yes. With the Labour Party I realized quickly that you couldn't simply do a spray job. If you repaint an old car, it's still going to be an old car. Instead you have to re-engineer the model, reconstruct it, rethink whether that model is what the public wants and whether they would feel comfortable driving it. In a sense, we've got to do the same for Europe How do you do that? How do you make Europe relevant and meaningful? The European project was originally about...
...climate of fear has settled over Iraq's universities at a time when the country needs them most. Iraq's higher education system is slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime...
...month-long project—the first major road project in the Square since the Red Line was extended in the 1980s—will also reconstruct parts of JFK, Palmer, Church, and Winthrop Streets and add new street lamps...
...spelled out his views in a series of forthright interviews that were published in book form this year in several languages (U.S. version, published last month: The Ratzinger Report, Ignatius Press, $9.95). Ratzinger's remedy for the "self-destruction" of Roman Catholicism over the past 20 years is to "reconstruct the church" by returning to "the authentic texts of the original Vatican...