Word: reconstruction
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...distinguished service. Last month Dade Circuit Court prosecutors charged Blair with three counts of aggravated stalking and alleged that he had admitted to harassing Billig over the past 18 months. After Blair pleaded not guilty, he was freed on a $75,000 bond. Now investigators are racing to reconstruct Blair's movements on March 5, 1974--the day of Amy's disappearance--trying to discover if Blair was Amy's abductor as well as Billig's late-night caller. When his trial, scheduled for next month, opens, Blair's wife and two daughters expect the affable family man, known...
...agency suspected of being double agents. The CIA did not properly warn U.S. national security officials that the information might be tainted; worse, the information may have prompted the expenditure of billions on unnecessary defense projects. "Devastating" and "inexcusable" were Deutch's assessments. He pledged an intensive effort to "reconstruct" the agency's spying operations...
...humans sacrificed to the mountain god may prove to be a godsend to scientists. Archaeologists and anthropologists are thrilled because Juanita was found at a site that had not been looted; with all the ritual elements in place, they can reconstruct the ceremony and better understand its religious significance. Other experts are more interested in those body fluids. With support from the National Geographic Society, scientists in Arequipa, where the bodies are being kept, are preparing to make a detailed examination of Juanita's blood, her tissues and her DNA to determine, among other things, what virus and germs...
...exact series of social contexts that shaped the human mind over the past couple of million years is, of course, lost in the mists of prehistory. In trying to reconstruct the "ancestral environment," evolutionary psychologists analyze the nearest approximations available--the sort of technologically primitive societies that the Una bomber extols. The most prized examples are the various hunter-gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some...
...Consciousness," says Antonio Damasio, "is a concept of your own self, something that you reconstruct moment by moment on the basis of the image of your own body, your own autobiography and a sense of your intended future." Missing any one of the essential parts that it's built on diminishes consciousness but does not totally negate it. Damasio has no doubt that Boswell is conscious, though the quality of that consciousness is impossible for anyone else to imagine...