Earlier, BBC Northern Ireland's political editor Mark Devenport said tests were being carried out on the MP.

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It compared scores of 13-year-olds in maths and science tests, calibrating the scores so that a mark of 500 was equal to the international average.

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"We are probably overtreating a lot of patients, " says Harvard Medical School pathologist Mark Rubin, who is working on DNA tests to predict the future aggressiveness of a tumor.

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To put Lydia's mark in perspective, the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which primarily tests verbal reasoning, is 161.

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Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray, who had not yet seen the suit, said the software maker runs thorough tests of all its software products before they are allowed out the door.

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Even that mark may fall by year-end, however, what with the pipeline chock full of loans without maintenance tests.

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He has a record number of 555 dismissals in Tests and 999 in all forms of international cricket, a tantalizing one short of the thousand mark.

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