Alexandria remained the fashion capital, the center of learning, the seat of culture.
The spiritual mission helped doom the enclave's material prosperity, when the Jesuits' spreading influence finally prompted Japan to shutter itself from the world by the early 1640s. (The Dutch cut off trade from the other direction by seizing Malacca in 1641.) But over the next century the effort gave Macau a purpose, as a center of learning and a bridge to the Middle Kingdom.
The new thinking among the leaders caught the attention of the clerics at Al Azhar, the thousand-year-old institution of Islamic learning in the center of ancient Cairo.
The owner of Baltimore-based It Works Learning Center, trainer of nursing assistants, Lapides is also the head of sales, operations and recruiting.
In addition, the UNESCO Kathmandu Office jointly with the Tamsipakha Community Learning Center and Community Learning Center Forum, Nepal will observe the Day to highlight the importance of Cultivating Peace.
Art of the Olympians is a global learning center, which brings together Olympic athletes to promote the highest ideals of humanity.
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Welch Learning Center was one of the world's first corporate training facilities.
"The Language Learning Center offers hundreds of hours of video content in over 50 languages to students and faculty, with a growing library of video assets, " said Bob Majors, Senior Computing Specialist, University of Washington.
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First of all, we've got Cherrelle Hurt, who is the owner of As We Grow Learning Center.
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"I'm relieved like all Americans, " said Mr. Agil, who is the chairman of the Wilmington Islamic Learning Center.
Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship: The center offers Middlebury students a wide range of learning opportunities, including an annual symposium featuring the brightest stars of social entrepreneurship, summer grants, multi-year fellowships, and the MLab, a weekly discussion for students learning about the challenges of social change leadership.
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The company started its own learning center, which offers lots of do-it-yourself tutorials and free downloads.
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You can participate in live online courses, listen to special guest lectures and study from their online learning center right from the comfort of your home or office.
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With the help of a learning partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership, KONE Americas' executives realized that to deal with the company's expanding challenges and emerge as an industry leader, they would need to move to an interdependent, collaborative leadership culture.
However, after participating in literacy classes at a Community Learning Center, supported by the National Federation of UNESCO Association of Japan, her life changed dramatically.
She is also the co-founder of In Good Company Workplaces, a first-of-its-kind community, learning center and co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City.
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"Fourteen months have passed in this presidential campaign and three states have had elections and only today for the first time in 14 months has Mr. Bradley made the first speech on education, " he said at a center for children with learning disabilities in the Detroit suburb of Southfield.
Five of 20 early-learning spots were filled after the new center sent an email to workers sharing its building, with little additional advertising.
Stanford University is home to the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, a medical education building that opened in the fall of 2010 and includes facilities for hosting conferences.
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It is also a testament to the violent clash between the brutal, unyielding Islam of the invaders and the moderate version of the religion that has long prevailed in Timbuktu, once a center for Islamic learning.
The medical recommendations it creates based on a learning process of digesting case histories from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cleveland Clinic, and other institutions can only be as good as the data that are input and the decision-making processes it is charged to recreate.
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In the 2004 presidential election, just 47 percent of 18-to 24 year-old citizens voted, compared to 66 percent of citizens 25 and older, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
My AmeriCorps experience gave me the renewed clarity I needed to pursue this new vision, a vision for a world where the concepts of technology-enabled education, life-long learning, and creation are front and center.
In addition to providing a dedicated student entry, the William Fox Amphitheater for student orientation and an Internet reading room, the Education Center will offer high-tech, hands-on instruction through a digital learning suite, comprised of two media labs and a seminar room, and the Nam June Paik Experimental Production Studio.
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The Joan Ganz Conney Center at Sesame Workshop supports a variety of research initiatives looking to develop and innovate digital and game-based learning for children.
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On a recent Saturday morning at Lincoln Center, Ms. Kule oversaw the training of 800 Macy's employees and their friends and family members who were learning how to be clowns for the parade.
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