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Elena McMahon, given to "fast walks and clean starts," fits the mold of her predecessors, sensitive yet impassive females proficient at forgetting and at never looking far ahead.
The LAT lead says a new federal assessment of California's fourth graders' reading skills shows that only 20 percent of them are proficient readers, putting the state second to last (only in front of Hawaii) in the nation in this category.
The bottom line is that only a quarter of them are proficient in writing, and only about 1 percent are advanced.
The most proficient of the group is resveratrol, the plant polyphenol found in red wine, and its discovery as a potential elixir to combat ageing represents another extraordinary advance in a decade of discoveries that have revolutionised the field.
Analysts who are not proficient in statistics are strongly advised to seek the assistance of a statistician before selecting the method of analysis and using any of the results.