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...inhibits "absolutely vital" economic development. Another theme is that the world needs a plan that extends beyond 2012, when emissions limits set in Kyoto end. Even the 2012 goals are in jeopardy. "I don't think Europe can achieve its goals. I don't think Japan can," says Warwick McKibbin, an economist specializing in energy issues at the Australian National University. "Kyoto is a toothless tiger, a very political agreement...
...largely the one General Leslie Groves, military chief of the Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy McKibbin, a local woman who managed the tiny Santa Fe office that channeled new arrivals to the growing but highly secret enclave on a desert mesa outside of town. To get at the intrigues of Los Alamos through McKibbin is at times like trying to figure out Hamlet...
...Michael McKibbin, an administrator with California's teaching-standards board, knows what it takes. "If you have a foundation in your subject, if you really believe that all kids can learn and that you are responsible for their learning, the chances that you will be a good teacher are enormous," he says. But "if you are becoming a teacher so someone will love you," he warns, "find something else to do." Remember: this isn't about...
...teacher. It will also help if you are a person of color or if you are applying to an inner-city or a rural school. Being older may actually be in your favor. The average age of U.S. teachers is 44, and 25% of them are over 50. Michael McKibbin, who sees many career changers in the California internships he supervises, recognizes that teachers need enormous energy and wisdom. "I always take guile and savvy over youth and exuberance," he says...
...David McKibbin Lincoln...