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Sixteen hundred used to be a perfect score on the SAT, not anymore. A new essay section and a tweaked SAT has upped the total score to 2400 and has already succeeded in raising the anxiety level in students, parents and college advisers alike. A look at the new SAT and the preparation services for the test.
Steve Corrozi, Assistant Vice President, The Princeton Review, Mid-Atlantic Division
Kris Zavoli, Director of Regional Initiatives, The College Board
Sean Cavanagh, reporter, Education Week
Local Iraqis and Iraqi Americans share their thoughts about this week's historic elections.
Yasmin Bahrani, editor at USA Today
Anas Shallal, founder of the now-defunct "Iraqi Americans for Peaceful Alternatives"
Ghida al Askari, High School Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools
Tara Aziz, Program Officer, Washington Kurdish Institute
John Falk thought his battles with chronic depression would end with Zoloft. But it wasn't until he became a war reporter in Bosnia that he escaped his "pointless" existence. Hear about the often zany careers of war journalists, described by Falk as "free agents who answered to no one and lived each day like it was their last."
John Falk, author of "Hello to All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace" (Pub: Henry Holt and Co.)
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