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...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...
...levels around the world, but Sierra Leone's newly re-elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah sees reason for optimism even in that ignominious distinction. "I hope it will send a very powerful message to our people that we should learn to live in peace together and work hard to reconstruct our country," he says. "It's not a pleasant thing to be rated as trailing all the other countries in the world." When Kabbah, a former civil servant and longtime U.N. official - the U.N. Development Programme, where he worked for 21 years, publishes the report that listed Sierra Leone last...
Lexington looks back into the past to find an identity for the community in the present. But without being able to obtain a clear, objective or complete picture of the past, we cannot attempt to reconstruct an accurate representation of it. The reenactments and the restored historic houses are not as much a glimpse into a past as a statement about the present, and the self-congratulatory selective memory that defines the culture of contemporary Lexington...