Breaching Barriers of Culture and Understanding
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Several years ago, shortly after arriving in the United States, Lyubov Belyayeva suffered a massive heart attack. She had left Russia to be with her daughter in Silver Spring, and she spoke no English.
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Sometimes what at first seems like a minor change can actually signal major shift in understanding. Last week, Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize - a wonderful achievement for two reasons.
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Dyslexia, a common reading and learning disorder, could be influenced by culture, researchers said Wednesday. They discovered that a different area of the brain is affected in dyslexic Chinese
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Art education is a strange and surprising enterprise. It makes memories as important as celebration, traditions as crucial as innovation.
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There is an immense problem of inequality in this country, and sharing the skills and connections that some of us have could help solve it.
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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In the US the two religious groups, historically at odds, find new opportunities for dialogue and understanding.
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Companies working to achieve passing grades in their regulatory compliance audits can greatly improve their ability to meet the requirements if they can somehow bridge the cultural gap that commonly exists between IT workers and those hired to apply the tests, according to a panel of industry leaders.
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An institution seeks to be more than just an archive of programs.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina's tradition of cultural coexistence - particularly impressive when set against centuries of nearly continuous internecine warfare in Western Europe - offers a compelling lesson for the ...
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By Scarborough, Robert  FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE GLOBALIZATION OF the American economy is a challenge and an opportunity.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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The remarkable show at the American Museum of Natural History allows us to glean something about how humanity struggles to make sense of the natural world.
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Insistence on an official language means complications for a diverse work force.
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Riding on the coat-tails of an earlier article about emigrating to other countries, I present to you a small summary of my experience rapidly learning French to pass a standardized test for Canadian immigration. Since I live in the middle of the US, far removed from anything resembling a Francophone environment, I had to resort to various online and offline resources to accomplish my goal, managing to learn enough to score as "advanced" in several categories in just 10 months. Even if you don't wish to emigrate, this article may be useful, as I go into full detail describing the techniques and methods I used. Or, at the very least, read and be amused.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.