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But critics are already questioning the College Board's motives. ReadiStep arrives at a time when more and more students are choosing to take the ACT, the SAT's rival. At the same time, every year fewer and fewer colleges and universities are requiring the SAT or ACT - more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With a Pre-PSAT, the Joys of Testing Start Even Earlier | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Millions of Minnesotans awoke with such queasiness last Wednesday. Sure, the gubernatorial campaign had been a hoot, what with a no-chance-on-earth third-party candidate marauding about the state and providing some comic relief from the stiffs who headed up the Republican and Democratic tickets. But the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

He returned to Minnesota and spent a year at North Hennepin Community College. In 1975, the same year he met and married his wife, he went back to California to try his hand at professional wrestling. That was where Jesse Ventura was born. He'd always wanted to be named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

He was no great shakes as a wrestler, but he could roil the crowds by playing the bad guy against such scripted good guys as Hulk Hogan. Recalls Hogan: "Jesse's best move was to cheat and run...He'd take the tape off his wrist and choke you, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

Democratic state representative Myron Orfield ruefully concedes Ventura's extrapolitical appeal: "Jesse isn't just a former wrestler. He's a cultural phenomenon. He's connected to the modern vernacular of things here. He's with it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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