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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 . " I will fight those charges until the day I die . Bacolod 's findings indicate that that would significantly increase the percentage of smart women - - and men - - who become teachers.Equal-Opportunity AfflictionMen are as likely as women to be compulsive buyers , a condition that affects about one in 20 adults in the United States , according to Lorrin M. Koran , an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University 's medical school.Koran and his colleagues surveyed 2,513 adults in 2004 and found that 6 percent of women and 5.5 percent of men exhibited symptoms of hard-core compulsive shopping : irresistible and often senseless impulses to buy that they felt largely powerless to resist . When the researchers examined the results of the personality tests , they found that the personality of the car and driver were far from a perfect match . " The ultimate decision is likely to be one of the most defining of the court headed by the new chief justice , John G. Roberts Jr ., and a powerful statement about where the nation stands more than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education demanded an end to segregated schools.The court , encouraged by the Bush administration , has grown increasingly distrustful of racial classifications , and it reached out to take up the cases challenging schools in Seattle and Louisville even though appeals courts had upheld them as constitutional.Because of the stakes , the day at the court took on a feeling of great import - - there were demonstrations on the plaza out front , some people camped overnight in freezing temperatures to secure a spot in the courtroom , and the lines for members of the bar began forming before dawn . " If the day laborers get up early to get here , it means our people gotta be out here early , too , " he says . Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual year-end report on the state of the nation 's courts to just one issue , albeit one he said has " now reached the level of a constitutional crisis and threatens to undermine the strength and independence of the federal judiciary . It was death penalty day yesterday at the Supreme Court , coincidentally 30 years to the day since Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed under the country 's modern capital punishment laws.The court heard three death penalty cases from Texas even as executions are on hold in an increasing number of states , from Maryland to California , and as the number of new death sentences continues to fall .