FEATURE: Humor writer Dave Barry talks college

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FEATURE: Humor writer Dave Barry talks college

Humor writer Dave Barry tells U.S. News about late night cheeseburgers, the reason he decided to study English, and more. Bet you didn't know you can construct a submarine out of cardboard! Laughing all the way to a diploma: http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a144070a386406792a1

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SPOTLIGHT: I knew my SAT score was too low!

First, you take the highest-pressure standardized test you'll probably ever have to take. Then you find out the computer scored the answers incorrectly. That's the nightmare facing some of the 500,000 students who took the College Board's SAT exam last October. Education writer Alex Kingsbury explains what happened.

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