Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).
And when we were assigned to do that I really got the knack and saw the importance of reading word by word, line by line, paying attention to every single word that was on the page.
They have to get used to being harshly criticised and dissected by those who disagree with them, and they have to accept that sometimes the people reading their work will know more about the subject than they do and may have a valuable contribution to make to their thinking.
The thoughtful study described by Mr. Hackett that was recently issued by Lady Margaret Thatcher and other prominent Britons should be required reading on both sides of the Atlantic.
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It is by learning reading, writing and mathematics that they can break the vicious circle of misery and take their destiny into their own hands.
We confirmed, by careful reading and text searches, that none of the three papers were analyzed, cited, or mentioned in the vom Saal, Akingbemi et al. 2007 publication.
Founded in 2007, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel industry by delivering a cloud-based digital comics platform that makes discovering, buying, and reading comics more fun than ever before.
The hope is that by performing the same emotion-reading trick that marketers use, the type of tasks and the characters that appear in them can be made more engaging.
Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.
So having a chance to meet with a group that is making a difference by offering courses in reading and writing, among other subjects, was an honor.
Italian craftsmen learned how to precisely mill these reading stones, and by 1286, they were making lenses that could be held in a frame in front of a person's eyes.
And I'd like to address that head-on by assigning all of you some reading that will help you draw your own conclusions.
These goals can be achieved by ensuring that teachers in other disciplines are also focusing on reading and writing to build knowledge within their subject areas.
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But refugee girls are now being taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, in a school sponsored by an organisation that has campaigned for women's rights in Afghanistan.
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Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).
Regardless of the root issue, parents should feel no shame about seeking information (which, by the way, we're not born with) from experienced parents that you view as role models, by attending workshops, reading parenting books, and seeking out reliable information from research and professionals.
The reading skills that pupils develop by loaning books remains with them throughout their lives and goes some way to counteract the negative effects of an stunted primary education.
When Mr Bush signed NCLB a decade ago, with support from both sides of the aisle, it decreed that 100% of students should be reading and doing mathematics at the appropriate level for their ages by 2014.
After a brief intermission, Mr. Cale and the ensemble performed a variety of other songs from his career, including a reading of "Hedda Gabler" that featured dazzling work by Mr. Boyer and fascinating interplay between the orchestra and Mr. Maramba.
Yet though his predictions may be dubious, his analysis is worth reading and pondering, especially by those who before the euro crisis were fond of declaring that Europe was showing the world a way to a better future.
The September issue of Harvard Business Review includes an article by Nathan Foote, Russell Eisenstat, and Tobias Fredberg, titled The Higher Ambition Leader, that is essential reading for everyone interested in corporate social responsibility.
The government won a vote on the first reading of the civil-service bill in June, but only by one vote, and that after holding back a clause that would have let state governors and mayors sack surplus workers.
It is pretty clear from my reading of the latest statement of transformative mediation published jointly by ACR and ISCT, The Sourcebook, that this is no longer the case, if it ever was the case.
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And I won't bore you or tie up too much of your time by reading the number of endorsements that Senator Hagel's nomination has already received from a variety of quarters, but they are numerous and we expect that more will come.
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