First, she had to relearn to walk.
He might even, if he can relearn the virtues of bipartisan dealmaking, bully a climate-change bill through Congress.
Yet at the annual meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society in Los Angeles this month, Susan Harkema of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), described how seven of her patients whose spinal cords had been completely cut through were able to relearn the rudiments of walking.Dr Harkema's research suggests that the cord plays a bigger role in locomotion than was previously believed.
But it needs to relearn it, argues Max Warburton of Bernstein Research, if it is not to suffer from the worldwide trend towards downsizing, as new emissions laws bite and growth shifts to poorer consumers in emerging markets.The other thing Suzuki offers is unique exposure to emerging markets.
Youthful guitar solos have given way to a possibly harder art: musicians must get along with old bandmates and relearn their greatest hits.Correction: this article originally stated that Boyzone and Westlife were British bands.
"Business needs to relearn its limits, and if the Harvard Business School let some air out of its own balloon, business would listen," he grumbles.
British commanders have belatedly realised that they have much to learn, or rather relearn, about fighting small wars in distant lands.
In each successive crisis, he says, authorities have to relearn the lessons applied by private-equity firms: "Keep control of the firm and the capital .That is hard to swallow in a country that likes its capitalism red in tooth and claw.
As output falls, the civil service may no longer be able to pay all its thumb-twiddlers, the migrant workers may go back home, and the Gabonese may have to relearn how to grow cocoa and drive taxis.
Growing up with the internet, it is argued, has transformed their approach to education, work and politics".Unlike those of us a shade older, this new generation didn't have to relearn anything to live lives of digital immersion.
When the windfall is exhausted, countries have to relearn how to earn their foreign exchange the hard way.
