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Supreme Court deliberations are private , but yesterday 's oral arguments on whether it is constitutional to allow school systems to use race in making school assignments became as much a public debate between the divided justices as a questioning of lawyers.And after two hours , it seemed to reflect a court majority highly skeptical of the proposition that the benefits of racially diverse public schools can justify any restriction on an individual 's constitutional right to equal protection . In performing daily functions , people who got the speed training along with a handful of follow-up sessions significantly outperformed those who did not get such training.The results , being published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association , are heartening , but Willis and Marsiske cautioned that the biggest challenge lies ahead , in getting people to apply the findings to their lives . Ten sessions of exercises to boost reasoning skills , memory and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people in the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body.The researchers also showed that the benefits of the brain exercises extended well beyond the specific skills the volunteers learned . One of the few consoling results from the Barbaro tragedy was an anonymous gift of $ 500,000 for the establishment of the Barbaro Fund , for animal care at the hospital where he died . The collection also contains additional materials , including newspaper clippings , miscellaneous sketches , and an advertisement for a shop that Smith opened in London to sell her prints and services as an illustrator of cards , book plates , and sign boards .