Word: reconstruction
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That find might only have started a months-long forensics process. In order to identify the vehicle, investigators feared that they might have to reconstruct an entire van from pieces scattered not only on the ramp but also at the bottom of the crater. Turning over the piece of metal, though, investigator Hanlin noticed a blackened but decipherable sequence of five numbers. They were part of the vehicle identification number stamped on various parts of vehicles to help police trace one that is stolen or wrecked in an accident. Experienced agents know that the identification numbers are actually codes that...
Isuspect that I may have been a child at some point in my life. The evidence, however, is sparse. In trying to reconstruct a chronology, I've determined that my childhood did not occur during a time, like now, when children's issues had captured public attention and child care was an increasingly salient issue on the political agenda...
...tons. Through its hollow center, protons and antiprotons, accelerated to nearly the speed of light, smash into one another thousands of times in a second. The energy unleashed creates showers of short-lived particles that scintillate like tiny sparklers. From the evanescent flashes recorded by the detector, physicists can reconstruct the identities of the particles that produced them...
...could be affected by U.S. sticks and carrots. It is understandable that Bush would want to bring Iraq into the community of nations, but some government experts now think Saddam never had any interest in Washington's blandishments. U.S. policy was based on the belief that he wanted to reconstruct his country after the exhausting war with Iran and would need access to the West to do so. Instead Saddam resumed an interrupted march toward domination of the Arab world and figured raiding the Kuwaiti piggy bank would be a surer path to riches than borrowing from the West...
...ingenuity of his clothing. Even more amazing is the evidence that Neolithic people had discovered the antibiotic properties of plants. Among other surprises, the Iceman has shown irrefutably that human haircuts and tattoos have been in vogue a good deal longer than anyone suspected. Researchers have also begun to reconstruct the extraordinary coincidences of weather and geography that led to the Iceman's death, his long interment and his startling re-emergence 53 centuries later...