The process is less complicated than laser scanning, so discrepancy checks can be more frequent, making rebuilding less expensive.
Town officials say they cannot even settle on how to rebuild, much less get started, without financing from Tokyo.
Paul Read, a psychiatrist and expert in post-disaster community recovery with the Monash Sustainability Institute, said that for the population of Wye River, the promise to rebuild was less about practicalities than psychological support.
A house in an economically depressed area that had the same damage as one in a better area, and cost the same to rebuild, received less under the program.
Of the total amount of construction materials required to rebuild Gaza, less than 2 per cent has entered the territory so far.
The White House has expressed little desire to spend the years and billions needed to rebuild Liberia, much less to commit more troops.
If you are curious to learn just how Ms. Guthrie managed to rebuild herself in less time than is required to, say, grow a petunia, understand first that the term "rebuild" is not being used metaphorically.
He quickly decided that the most convenient route would be to allow the Port Authority, which built the World Trade Center, and the developer Larry Silverstein, who had the leasehold on it, to rebuild more or less what they had lost, with a few extras, such as a memorial.
There is a logical end to a natural disaster -- New York, New Jersey and all other states hit will take stock of the damage and rebuild -- but less so to the meltdown on Wall Street, when people were as scared as they were distraught.
Those two words conceal a little known, enormously ambitious plan to do nothing less than rebuild the nation's atomic complex for the 21st century.
