Word: reconstructional
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...After that, China wants to build a space station and "establish a base on the moon," the head of the lunar expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts its stuff on the international stage, Beijing wants to back up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown...
...makes a short speech in Arabic. Translated, it says: "The people who made this operation are from the few honored Iraqi mujahideen and we ask any honored Iraqis to defend this country and we can't accept any forces, Arab or foreigners, whoever it is, whether it is to reconstruct or occupy it. Depend on Allah, mujahideen...
...ruined economy, continued banditry and the return of the opium trade, a revived Taliban is the last thing that Karzai's poor nation needs. In a speech last month on Afghanistan's Independence Day, Karzai said, "It is the duty of everybody to launch a holy war to reconstruct this nation." The Taliban has already launched a holy war of its own. Soon enough the snows will come and the summer's fighting will die down. But if the U.S. and its ally Pakistan do not crush the Taliban soon, next year promises more bloodshed. "We are waiting," says Qari...
...leaders, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, seem to be willing to send members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to Iraq, disregarding not only Japan's constitution but also questions about the legitimacy of the war. They insist that the reason for deploying the SDF is to help reconstruct the Iraqis' lives and maintain peace. Why are Japanese leaders kind and obedient enough to comply with the U.S.'s rude and misleading requests? I am sure Japan will completely lose its diplomatic credibility throughout the world, especially in the Arab community, if the SDF is dispatched. Kiyoshi Sugimoto Hiroshima...
...experimental plots across the Southwest. Among these was an unlogged eight-acre plot in the Coconino that was set aside as a long-term control. Covington and his colleagues made 1876 the reference year for this plot--it was the year the last fire occurred--and then proceeded to reconstruct the way the forest had looked at the time. The difference between then and now, they found, was dramatic. In 1876 the plot boasted just more than 20 trees an acre, compared with 1,250 some 120 years later...