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I know the terminology , I know the culture really well . Compared with the control group , those who got memory training did 75 percent better on memory tasks five years later , those who got the reasoning training did 40 percent better on reasoning tasks , and those who got the speed training did 300 percent better than the control group.Researchers noted that mental skills can sometimes compensate for physical disabilities : Knowing how to figure out directions and find a new route on a map , for example , could allow someone to retain mobility even after their night vision deteriorates to the point where driving on certain roads becomes difficult.The study tracked 2,802 healthy adults from diverse backgrounds who were , on average , 73 years old . Curiously , the researchers found no wage differential among left - and right-handed women.They based their conclusions on an analysis of data from the federally funded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth , a nationally representative survey of approximately 5,000 men and women first interviewed in 1979 , when they were 14 to 21 years old . The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , nevertheless , reaffirmed the death sentence , saying that if an error was made , it was harmless to the outcome of the jury 's decision.And so Smith v. Texas ( 05-11304 ) was back before the Supreme Court yesterday , with Smith 's advocates and others - - including four retired federal appeals court judges - - arguing that the state court ignored specific directions from the Supreme Court.As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it , it was as though the state court were saying , " Thanks , thanks , that 's very interesting advice , " but we're deciding it on different grounds.But the state appeared to have strong supporters in Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia.Scalia said the Texas court decided that , though the mitigating evidence should have been presented more straightforwardly , it was in the best position to decide that such evidence would not have affected the jury 's decision to sentence Smith to death . The data included scores on a standardized achievement test in 2000 and detailed information that parents provided about the family . " We do not even talk about comparisons with the practicing bar anymore , " Roberts added parenthetically . The average student scored 500 on this test.The researchers found that a child from a family having 500 books at home scored , on average , 112 points higher on the achievement test than one from an otherwise identical family having only one book - - and that 's after they factored in parents ' education , occupation , income and other things typically associated with a child 's academic performance . WASHINGTON - - The only U.S. military officer charged with crimes in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal was arraigned Tuesday , and a judge said he would hold a hearing next week on a defense request to dismiss the charges.Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , a 50-year-old reservist from northern Virginia , chose not to enter a plea to the charges , which carry prison terms totaling up to 22 years . " But Kester argued that the " licensee cannot , by contract , be [ stopped ] from challenging the patent . " he asked Solicitor General Paul D. Clement.But he also repeatedly questioned the constitutionality of allowing a school system , especially one that has remedied past discrimination , to make school assignment decisions based " solely on skin color .