Stanley Kaplan: Father of Test Prep Dies At 90

Stanley Kaplan, the founder of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., and widely recognized as the father of the test-preparation industry, died Sunday, August 23 of heart failure at the age of 90. Kaplan founded Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., now...

DC: Washington Post, Police and Gaza Protesters

Washington, DC – Friday afternoon, a few daring Posties ventured to the secured lobby of the Washington Post headquarters to peer out the window to see protesters with a wheelbarrow of newspapers. “Dump the...

No Political Buttons Allowed for Teachers if DOE desire

"The Department of Education has the right to bar teachers from wearing political campaign buttons in school, a Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday. The ruling by Justice Lewis Kaplan came in response to a...

SAT prep services get into video games

This is a pretty smart idea, combining video games and studying. I think kids and parents will find this welcoming as they turn studying into a game which will boost up SAT scores in my opinion. This could also be...

Troops Gets a Taste of Chicago-style Pizzas

Looks like the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will be getting a taste of Chicago this Fourth of July as 3,000 pizzas make their way over to the middle east. These pizzas were packed in dry ice and shipped off...

Metallica Online: Maybe the Internet Isn't So Bad

Metallica has come a long way from suing the Internet. They're actually embracing the potential of a digital presence, bundling all sorts of freebies for those who buy their music. the article below criticizes...

Uncle Drops Nephew Out of 4 story Apartment Building Window

"LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany (CNN) -- Kamil Kaplan faced a horrifying decision as flames engulfed his apartment building: Does he drop his 9-month-old nephew four stories to a policeman or hope the baby boy survives the...

Britney Spears' One-Night-A-Week Custody Rights Suspended

"Following an emergency hearing called by Kevin Federline’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, yesterday in the ongoing custody battle between Kevin Federline and Britney Spears, there are indications that Britney has lost the one-night-a-week custody of her two children. The...

Hwang Jang Yop

"When he defected, he left his family behind in Pyongyang. His wife subsequently committed suicide. One daughter died under mysterious circumstances when she fell off a truck. Another daughter and son are believed to be in labor camps. He is an aspiring (if late-in-coming)...

Elderly Patients Used as Experiments?

"Illegal and unethical experiments were conducted over several years, in a systematic manner, on thousands of elderly patients. At least one patient is suspected of having died as a direct result of one of the...

Are Orgasms Genetic? - Don't thank your mom quite yet

"Let me begin by saying that I have great respect for anyone who seriously explores human sexuality. Without Alfred Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, Helen Singer Kaplan ‑- the woman who trained me ‑- and all the others, we sex therapists wouldn't have the scientific...

America's 25 new 'Ivies'

"You could call it a classic case of supply meeting demand. A generation ago, elite schools were a clearly defined group: the eight schools in the Ivy League, along with such academic powerhouses as Stanford, the...

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