Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true story of her birth and sex change. "All of a sudden everything clicked," John remembers. "For the first time things made sense, and I understood who and what I was." With the support of a new set of doctors, Joan underwent a pair of operations to reconstruct a penis--albeit a diminutive one without the sensitivity of a normal sex organ...
...that accompanied the original search have been discarded. In the meantime, the bureau is not ready to classify Jacques, if that is indeed his name, as a suspect or target in its investigations. The FBI does, however, want to talk to him as part of its attempt to reconstruct the activities of McVeigh and Nichols...
...first freely elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after Aristide's return, the U.S. created the first civilian police force in Haitian history. It was to be the cornerstone of Haiti's new democracy. With trustworthy police, U.S. officials predicted, Haiti could finally begin to deconstruct its dictatorship, reconstruct its economy and build from scratch all the judicial, political and civil institutions necessary for a working democracy...
...patients come to him in the worst of circumstances--with broken jaws, cracked teeth or few teeth at all--but Dr. Shoemaker gives them a reason to smile. Since 1983, he has helped reconstruct the faces, and indirectly the lives, of battered women at the Crisis Center, a local shelter. "Unfortunately, there are not always happy endings," the dentist cautions. "But at least to help them get out in public is important...
...include in a memorial at Harvard alumni who died in the service of the Confederacy have been mistated or confusingly stated. As has been said before, the difficulty in proving what happened in an intersection accident only months ago demonstrates how unlikely it is that we can historically reconstruct events or mentalities 100 years ago or more. Some random points that may help put the project in perspective...