In another striking test that raises more questions about memory, identity and art, researchers inserted one of Ms. Johnson's own paintings in a stack of postcards showing paintings by famous artists, and asked her to identify them.
DETROIT — Other cities and towns have teetered at the edge of financial disaster lately, but Detroit, the capital of America's auto industry and once the nation's fourth-largest city, has just become the most striking test case for a key question: Can a city that has fallen so far be saved?
One of the most striking tests took place in 1995 in a small pond within sight of the Chernobyl nuclear power plants in Ukraine, where sunflowers were grown on Styrofoam rafts with their roots dangling in the water.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING AMY HARMON The New York Times The Pulitzer jury saluted Ms. Harmon, 39, for her "striking examination of the dilemmas" and moral issues created by genetic testing.
Preliminary findings in a subset of the schools suggested that the extra calories do make a difference: School districts that increased calories the most showed the most striking improvement in test scores, especially in mathematics.
L. is very striking, and she tested high on the callous-unemotional scale, so she is pretty far along the continuum.
Due to this striking difference, we tested whether the measured value of mean I correlates with the number of clusters.
Stratification by method of diagnosis revealed no striking differences between breath test diagnosis and diagnosis by serological examination.
And indeed, the district has posted striking improvements in the test scores of black and low-income students: in 1995, only 40percentt of the black students in Wake County in the third through eighth grades scored at grade level in state reading tests; by last year, the rate had almost doubled, to 82.5percentt.
For all test systems, striking differences were observed between the regulation patterns of VPA and MeHg.
The results are particularly striking on the Regents tests, where the number of students passing the tests in 2000 was far higher than the number of students who even took them in 1997.
