Word: reconstruction
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...life began is a grander question that will occupy most of the next century. The first task is to reconstruct the history of evolution over the past 4 billion years. Modern gene technology can use the DNA in every living thing as a vast repository of historical information. Even dna will not point all the way back to the beginning of life, but it will provide clues to the self-replicating entities first assembled from simple chemicals on the primeval earth. The century ahead will see the first laboratory proof that self-replicating systems can form from ordinary chemicals. Determining...
...curiosity but not give too much away. We find the ancient Greeks so fascinating because we only possess fragments of their work. A plan file is like a fragment of a personality, a shard from a giant amphora. It tempts us to put all the pieces together and reconstruct the person from the parts...
Although often over-dramatic and one-sided, the poem as a whole attempts to reconstruct without decoration or artifice the story of a bypassed heroine. Delicate Homeric fingers of rosy dawn definitely don't reach up to sooth the reader's discerning aesthetic; instead, Murray evocatively and sympathetically describes a woman's life that was far from beautiful. Rejecting the traditional epic techniques of plot momentum and beautiful characters, Murray creates an entirely new form of epic poetry by focusing instead upon the hopelessness of an aging woman's attempts to revitalize her downward spiraling life...
Memorial Hall, which many of us know as the looming architectural centerpiece between Kirkland and Cambridge Streets, may soon cast a shadow 70 feet taller. Recently, to cap off a five-year $2.1 billion capital campaign, the University announced that $4 million will be used to reconstruct the war memorial's tower, which burned down...
Memorial Hall, which many of us know as the looming architectural centerpiece between Kirkland and Cambridge Streets, may soon cast a shadow 70 feet taller. Recently, to cap off a five-year $2.1 billion capital campaign, the University announced that $4 million will be used to reconstruct the war memorial's tower, which burned down...