Word: reconstructionism
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Democracy can be a messy business. The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, just five years old, learned that lesson this week after parliamentary elections on Saturday resulted in no one party capturing a majority. Preliminary official results released on July 5th gave former ruling party Fretilin 29% of...
1/100 The chance, despite the reconstruction of New Orleans' levees, that certain parts of the city will be flooded with as much as 6 ft. of water in a big storm this year
Once a place is inscribed on the list, it not only benefits from the media attention and tourist revenue that such notoriety can bring, it also becomes eligible for a piece of UNESCO's preservation fund. In 2001, the world recoiled when the Taliban destroyed two 6th century, 150-ft...
Either way, Jefferson's fate has become something bigger than the man himself. He rose from a dirt-poor rural childhood to attend Harvard law school and became, in 1990, the first African-American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction; his equally spectacular fall, if it comes, would be...
Women moaned "No, no, no," and men raised their voices in spontaneous outbursts of disappointment as a federal advisory board voted 6-4 to recommend to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services a continued time-consuming, case-by-case reconstruction of exposure to radiation levels. A police officer...