Mr Obasanjo must start to refashion not just the institutions of the state but the codes of practice and patterns of behaviour among the people at large that make civilised life possible.

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From a management perspective, it takes some practice to let go of old patterns and embrace the mechanics of the new.

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Downloading lessons into the brain might sound like sci-fi, but technology that activates neural patterns might soon help us practice while asleep.

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While some argued that Mahadevan may have an innate ability to memorize, Ericsson and colleagues found in their experiments with Mahadevan that he learned his unusual methods for memorizing numerical patterns after a thousand hours of practice.

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Generally speaking, the best practice techniques are those that lay down multiple, vivid memory patterns in the brain.

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The difference in daily birth patterns, the report says, is probably explained by obstetric practice.

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