Programming is rapidly becoming a skill matching writing and math in its applicability, and as the world becomes more and more computerized, knowing how to write code becomes more and more important.
Always an animal lover, I found as I got older, I had more and more guilt knowing how food got to my plate.
More than knowing how fast Joeckel is, I need to know that when he's tired and needs to push himself, he can and will.
It's more than knowing how to perform tasks and procedures; It's about being a more effective member of the health care team and navigating clinical systems.
"It was more precautionary, knowing how much conversation was going on — should we have played the game?" Torre said.
A year ago, even, she'd have been more cautious, knowing how Doree would have revolted, then, at the idea that anybody, any living soul, could be in her place.
More importantly, knowing how the mutations transform the virus would help scientists spot other mutations that could make bird flu adapt to humans.
In the era of Facebook and flash mobs, university administrators appear to be more skittish, knowing how quickly ideas — be they good, bad or just plain unruly — can go viral.
When we watch movies such as Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God, we enjoy it all the more for knowing how absurdly intrepid the shoot was, and the lengths they had to go to corral several hundred monkeys (plus Klaus Kinski) on to a raft in the middle of the Amazon.
