One consequence is that precious dollars are pumped into research aimed at a cure or prevention while almost no resources are available to help learn how to better care for people who already have dementia or for training or other assistance for their caregivers.

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As for us, I just hope we learn to defend better next season or we'll be in some trouble.

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One goal of the lab is to find how people might better learn things like mathematics or chemistry by employing the kind of mental activity engaged when musicians improvise, Lanier said.

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For some reason they would rather struggle with their business day after day, year after year, than take 2 or 3 days out of their life to learn how to do things better.

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Study after study shows that the sooner children begin to learn in these high-quality settings, the better he or she does down the road, and we all end up saving money.

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You get to learn from all your competitors mistakes, and maybe create a better molecule or at least run better designed clinical trials.

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By showing him how to make an omelet (or stitch a simple hem), I hoped he would also learn how to be a better man, one who could look after his own needs instead of expecting his girlfriend to do it for him.

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The action-oriented optimists, the ones who don't see life as a casino but as a place where one has to make the right decisions to obtain the desired outcomes -- to make the world a better place or our lives more worth living -- see disasters as occasions to learn, to find out what we should have done differently, to come up with new strategies.

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Those operating reactors with lower risks of flooding or earthquake, better emergency cooling systems and more robust power supplies might see themselves as having little to learn from it.

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