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...Marquis places the urn in a large ziplock bag and labels it with the date and exact location of the find. Once the dig is finished, all the artifacts will be shipped to Kabul where they will be analyzed and placed in a historical context, enabling the archaeologists to reconstruct what life once looked like at Tepe Zargaran. "We never knew this was important before," says Basir. "Now, when I find something like this, I am happy. A part of my history comes alive...
Darwin had no way of knowing this, since he had no way of examining DNA. If he did, he might well have rethought one of his most potent metaphors for evolution: the tree of life. It's not that the metaphor is wrong. Scientists regularly reconstruct evolutionary branches today. When a new disease breaks out, for example, the fastest way to figure out what to do is to determine what the pathogen is related...
...anniversary was not one to be celebrated. “We have moved ourselves into a worse direction as far as the treatment of survivors,” Bhabha said. “I think we fail dramatically, in terms of our response to genocide and our obligation to reconstruct a life and a world for the survivors.” Bhabha said that since 1948, the anti-genocide movement has not moved forward but backward. According to Goldstone, it is up to the United States to lead the world against genocide. “South Africa changed...
...international community that came to the aid of the school victims, just as they did the storm victims. After the hurricane, overseas volunteers helped clear roads, reconstruct bridges, and flew in to distribute much needed supplies. But hundreds of thousands of people live in remote areas that are inaccessible with even the sturdiest of four-wheel drive vehicles. There are only 2,400 miles of road in Haiti, which is the size of Maryland; and of those roads, just 600 miles are paved. There are also only 10,000 doctors, most of whom are located in the urban centers...
...decades experts had worked tirelessly to reconstruct the original version of the film on the basis of set photographs, intertitles (the text between scenes) and its score. Although large gaps remained - roughly 30 minutes, one quarter of the film's duration - when the results were made public in 2001, most critics believed this was the closest one would ever get to the definitive version...