Word: reconstruction
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...colleagues retrieved a series of sediment cores from the bottom of three lakes that march up Taylor Valley like Cyclopean footprints: Fryxell, Hoare and Bonney. These cores are layered like the pages of a history book, and the record of geochemical shifts they contain can be used to reconstruct lake levels and stream flow for past centuries. Doran thinks that the record from Lake Fryxell may extend back 15,000 years...
...Kabul eastward to the Pakistan border, where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still potent, the principal mission of the U.S. must for now remain military, Myers says. But in the remaining three-quarters of the country, it might be time to "flip our priorities," he says, and make reconstruction paramount. "That's what we're debating right now inside government." Myers says rebuilding Afghanistan would not be "a U.S.-only effort" and would require "a lot of help from the international community." But given that the war was driven by Washington, the initiative for a global effort to reconstruct...
...second-grade school in Montgomery County was watched over alternately last week by police, Secret Service agents and the FBI. The feds have donated premier ballistics forensics investigators. The FBI, using software originally designed for movies such as Star Wars, is creating animated 3-D computer-graphic displays to reconstruct the crime scene and help calculate the sniper's position, in hopes of jogging potential witnesses' memories. And federal law-enforcement sources tell TIME that the bureau has asked the Pentagon to search its records for recently discharged GIs who went through sniper school. The schools teach snipers to work...
Babies born with an X and a Y chromosome are often raised female despite the Y. The problem is that, as tissue engineering technology stands now, it is impossible to reconstruct male genitals out of meager amounts of penile tissue. But it is possible to construct normal female genitals out of what ambiguously gendered males have at birth...
...hundred meters down the rutted, dirt road is Mohammed Ibrahim, a mason, working with his brother and nephew to reconstruct a house he built himself in the 1970s. They're hurrying to complete two rooms before winter?each requires 10,000 bricks?so the 16 members of their extended family will have shelter. There is a tentative sense that peace may last, due to a curious partnership of the coalition army and the divine. "Thanks to God, we have no fear," says Obaidullah, a tailor, who is rebuilding with the help of his five brothers and their wives. But when...