Posts Tagged ‘test’

Defense cuts test lawmakers’ resolve on deficits (AP)

AP – Lawmakers who came to Washington demanding budget cuts face a tough test now that President Barack Obama and military leaders want to shrink the force, shut down bases and cancel weapons to achieve them.

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Flunking the big test

New Yorkers have 58 million reasons to jeer teachers union President Michael Mulgrew.

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Justin Bieber to take paternity test 

Justin Bieber is vowing to take a paternity test to prove he’s no

Baby, Baby

daddy.

The Canadian-born crooner might be an international pop star, but he swears he’s not the pop of a 20-year-old California woman’s three-month-old son.

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Students show growth in math on national test (AP)

AP – New test scores show the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders are doing the best ever in math, but schools still have a long way to go to get everyone on grade level. In reading, eighth-graders showed some progress.

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New prostate cancer test advice overturns dogma (AP)

In this Sept. 13, 2011 photo provided by the University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Gautam Jayram assists during prostate cancer surgery, watching an internal video of the patient’s body, at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago. No major medical group recommends routine PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening. The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, being made public on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 will not come as a surprise to cancer specialists. The task force concluded there's little if any mortality benefit. But there is harm from routine screening: impotence, incontinence, infections, even death that can come from the biopsies, surgery and radiation, according to Dr. Virginia Moyer of the Baylor College of Medicine, who heads the task force. (AP Photo/University of Chicago Medical Center, Bruce Powell)AP – Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don’t do it.


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Death row inmate’s lie detector test denied hours before execution

A Georgia death row inmate volunteered to take a lie detector test in a desperate last-ditch effort to avoid his Wednesday night execution.

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