European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago a the stars and stripes Friday april 17.1987 key tests found biased against girls new York i i girls earn belter grades than boys in High school and College hut state lower on sen biased standardised exams costing girls millions or dollars in scholarship Aid educators reported thurs Day the a Lional Center for fair a open testing or fairest reported thai exams such As Scholastic aptitude Ortii. Taken by 2.2 million College hound Slud cols each year. Discriminate against girls but Are used to predict future academic performance. The More these biased Esi ims Are us if As gatekeepers Lor Nellc Jse admission and scholarship Aid. The More i Zitin ignation voting women suffer said i he Liskos ser an Nhor of the report. The report cited the decreasing percentage of girls Iven a Lional Merit scholarships each year John eiss executive director of the Cambridge mass., Center said at Hunter College girls received Only 36 percent of the 123 million in a Vinnal Merit scholarships in 1985-86, a decrease from 40 percent in 1983-84 and 38 percent in 1984-85, give w the report said. Or Marianne Roderick senior vice president of the National Merit scholarship corporation in Evanston 111., said Mcrill scholars arc not chosen by gender nor on the basis of Merit qualifying tests and sats alone. More than i million students compete annually but Only about 13,500 make the Grade other criteria activities grades achievements Are considered when selecting finalists Roderick said. More than 800 government and private scholarship agencies also rely on lest results to select winners and More than a thousand colleges require sat scores the report said. The Gap Between sat scores Tor Gir s and boys is at its greatest margin with girls averaging a combined score of 844 versus 938 for boys in 1986, the report said. The tests Are scored from 200 to 800 on each part math and verbal. A combined score of 1,600 is tops. At the College Board which administers the sats spokesman Fred Moreno noted that Bays take More Mulh and science courses in High school. There is a difference in test scoring Between men and women. But thai does t necessarily mean the lot is biased. Especially on the math part Here is a big difference Moreno said. However Weiss said the test makers admit their tests discriminate against women but they have done nothing to remove the  Eleanor Smeal president of the National Organiza Tion for women endorsed the report saying test Bias is devastating to Young  unfairly Low test scores become self fulfilling prophecies that destroy girls self Confidence. The damage can be life Long Simcal said. Leslie Wolfe chairwoman of the National coalition for women and girls in education warned of action to Slop any sex Bias in testing. If the test makers fail to eliminate sex discrimination in their products we will pursue legislative Legal and advocacy campaigns to guarantee equal Access patient hopeful of beating disease after brain graft Nashville Tenn. A the first person to undergo brain graft surgery in the United slates says it has Given her Hope of overcoming Parkinson s disease and her doctors called it a breakthrough in treating nervous system disorders. I m not shaking at the moment and you do not know How grateful i am Diezyc Haggh. 42, said at a news con Ferenee wednesday at Vanderbilt uni verily medical Center. She had the sur Gery april 9. I Mirkinson s disease which causes tremors and a loss of balance afflicts nearly  million americans. This is really the Start of an Era where Neura surgeons will be transplanting other tissues into the brain said or. R. Stanley Burns a member of the surgical team. Raggett wearing a Pink Robe and a while turban to cover Marks of the brain surgery said she began developing symptoms of Parkinson s disease 10 years ago. I Hud to learn Bow to stir pots with my left hand und i m right handed. I had to learn How to Prim with my left  said the 42-year-old insurance clerk who lives near Nashville. La affects your thinking your moods she said. You Wake up thinking am i Goin to shake Loday As bad As i did yester la Agneil said she would advise other sufferers of the disease logo for it if they have the Opportunity to undergo the proce Dure. It s giving me Hope and i Hope it s giving others  she said. Brain surgery patient Dickye Bagwell Al a news conference with husband Henry left and or. George s. Allen. Or. George s. Allen professor and chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Vanderbill said researchers May not know for months what effect the brain graft will have on baggy to. A film of the surgery taken through a Microscope used in the operation showed Allen and or. Noel b. Tulypan placing dopamine producing adrenal gland cells from near one of Baggett s kidneys and grafting them inside the right half of tier brain. Parkinson s disease is caused when the body no longer produces enough Dopa Minc a chemical that allows nerve cells in the brain 10 communicate. Some doctors believe that the adrenal gland when transplanted will produce the required dopamine in the brain Allen said. But he said no one knows for sure Why the surgery appears to help fight Parkinson a Burns said Baj Cit who is under close supervision by doctors should be re leased from the Hospital in two weeks. Survey finds Orlando marries town of ail new York a marriages die of neglect in new York City while twosome fall apart in los Angeles because of the temptation of Loo Many Good looking men and women according to a Forbes mag a Ine Survey. My in Orlando Fla., the marital state flourishes. Cleveland and Pittsburgh also Are High on the list of Good places for marriage the Magazine save. In Cleveland and Pittsburgh the Survey said peo ple have maintained their willingness to work und fondness for stability. They arc educated Friendly though not Overly so you never get the feeling you re in Dallas and quite Down to  the neg wine said. It Bawd i conclusions on a Survey of 3,719 Busi Ness managers who have lived in at least three place for one year or More. A town does t hau1 to in no Iii economically for it id by a a Ood place to raise u family though it can t be Fulling apart completely either Forbes said. Orlando just has the right tone and feel to it with Disney world setting Ihu inne. It is a Good place to raise a family the Suruy found. Albuquerque. . Was in last place. Those surveyed found it to be hostile to outsiders and complained that it had a bad effect on Ihei children the Magazine said. Albuquerque is torn Between wanting to be part of the business mainstream and having a separate wild West culture All its own the Magazine said. The place gives you a sense of being isolated and it s More antagonistic in a quiet Way than other Large cities to people transplanted there from one of the Northern states or the East. Making friends of your neighbors is no easy  marriages in new York the Survey concluded die of neglect because hard driving two career couples became estranged like roommates Shar ing the same living  in los Angeles the Survey found a different prob Lem there is just Loo much temptation from highly attractive men and women however the Survey found that the marriage Cli mate is improving in the nation s two largest cities As the singles scene loses its Glamour thanks in part to herpes and aids and an increasing interest in family  Forbes ranked 32 cities on a five Point scale with five being a healthy environment for a marriage one being a difficult place and three being Neutral. Of new Orleans ranked 28lh, it said being on display All the time is a Strain for a City. Doing it Day after Day divorces you first from your emotions and eventually from your spouse on Dallas 25 and Houston 26 anyone who tells you that poor people fight about Money More Louin affluent ones do never overheard the blistering Battles that look place in Dallas and Houston in the 1470s and 1980s, when Energy prices Werc  on Denver 21 the same sense of adventure and individuality that made people move to Colora do in the first place makes each say time for me to hit the Road travelling Light and alone again that mentality makes it difficult to make up after a  tin top 10 cities on the list Are Orlando Fla. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cleveland Tampa Sipe Kersburg. Fla Cincinnati Baltimore Chicago Kan Sas i i a and Detroit. The Bottom Jomarc Boston Miami Dallas hous ton san Francisco new Orleans Maui Inion los angles new York and Albuquerque