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" So I think lawyers who have n't been part of the judiciary are as qualified and will be viewed as qualified in the future . Older adults who did the basic exercises followed by later sessions were three times as fast as those who got only the initial sessions when it came to activities of daily living , such as reacting to a road sign , looking up a number in a telephone book or checking the ingredients on a medicine bottle - - abilities that can spell the difference between living independently and needing help . " I 'm the PR , " says Yildirim , and the PR goes two ways : At once , he is trying to redeem the name of the police department to Muslims and the reputation of Islam to police officers.Of course , the misunderstandings may also go every which way , even for Yildirim , a funeral director by trade who may or may not have become conversant in cop talk but who also does n't speak the languages of the majority of immigrant Muslims in New York.Arabs and South Asians form the largest immigrant groups among the city 's 600,000 Muslims , according to a Columbia University study - - and Yildirim , born in Germany to Turkish parents and educated at an Islamic high school in Istanbul - - knows only prayers and hellos in Arabic and no Urdu at all.He says that 's no problem - - " For Muslim culture you know everything about them because you believe in the same faith . " Taplin orders a coffee and cranes his neck toward the entrance , where , in the next few minutes , half of his little brigade trickles in : Bill Campenni , the retired Air National Guard fighter pilot ; his wife , Kathleen , the Canadian emigre who is now a U.S. citizen ; Diane Bonieskie , the retired schoolteacher ; Jeff Talley , who says he 's losing his aircraft repair job because it 's being outsourced to Mexico ; and Joe , who wo n't provide his last name or say what he does because " who knows who might get the information . With Senate confirmation hearings scheduled to start next week , Bush administration officials and conservative allies working to win Alito 's approval say he fits within the judicial mainstream ; some Democrats and liberal advocacy groups trying to defeat his nomination say he is an ideologue.Neither characterization is completely accurate.Instead , the analysis , along with interviews of scholars who study the courts , shows that Alito takes consistently restrictive stances on some social issues and criminals ' rights but does not differ substantially from the typical judge in other areas.Overall , the analysis shows , Alito does not disagree with majority opinions more frequently than most federal appeals judges do in similar cases . ) Justices have long given speeches to law classes and legal conferences and at overseas symposiums , sometimes noticed and sometimes not.But those who follow the court closely say they have no doubt there has been a change . " Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke to his fellow members of the Federalist Society , a coalition of conservative lawyers and legal scholars who have gone from rebel outsiders to Washington insiders - - the group drew 1,500 people to its annual banquet and warranted appearances by administration leaders from Vice President Cheney on down.Roberts 's turn on the stage was the most complete , and it showed that his sure-footed performance in his confirmation hearings , where he left even senators opposed to his conservative philosophy aglow , was no fluke.He has a politician 's gift for appearing open while answering only the questions he wants to answer , along with an almost over-the-top humility about being , at 51 , the youngest chief justice since John Marshall , and he offers a reassuring middle ground between those worried about threats to judicial independence and those alarmed by activist judges.He provided a little something for everyone . 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 . But there has also been a change in the way justices , now led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr ., 51 , see their role both in explaining what they do and in fostering a public conversation about the judiciary , according to those who most carefully monitor the court .