History and geography will become "human, social and environmental understanding"; reading, writing and foreign languages, "understanding English, communication and languages".
At the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, I realized the limits of my aforementioned foreign language skills, understanding only a portion of an exhibit about hotels used by foreign correspondents in war zones.
Students' problems understanding foreign teachers is not new.
The results are also valuable in understanding foreign object damage (FOD) of coatings.
Today, understanding foreign cultures is not a luxury but a strategic necessity.
Mr Hague has sought to restore its traditional skill at understanding foreign places, while trying to forge new, more commercially oriented alliances, especially in Asia.
"Many companies try to transplant their operations to a foreign country without understanding the local business environment, which means they face difficulties achieving growth and success," she says.
The program's objective is to provide future leaders of that community with enhanced analytic skills for understanding foreign countries and the relations among them.
From then on, like a computer that eats a crucial file, the cabin becomes almost destructive in its lack of utility, and the rest of the world becomes a foreign country, beyond understanding.
Harvey M. Rosenwasser Key Biscayne, Fla., June 24 , 2005Correction: July 1 , 2005 Friday Because of an editing error, a letter on Tuesday about the problem some American students have understanding foreign teachers misidentified a Nobel Prize winner who taught the writer at Indiana University in the 1950's.
