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...Dodge Renaissance Academy on Chicago's West Side. Duncan shuttered the failing school in 2002 and reopened it in 2005 as a laboratory for teachers seeking advanced degrees in education. The school has since been hailed as a model for teacher-residency programs. Dodge is "helping us rethink the way we train teachers in this country, and the way we run schools," says Ted Mitchell, president of the California board of education. "We're delighted that the President-elect has recognized that promise. It fits with his vision of positive change...
...able to sustain an army big enough to guarantee the country's security. And that's just one of several thorny issues likely to make success in Afghanistan harder to achieve than in Iraq - unless the U.S. scales back its ambitious goals for the country. Such a rethink may be in the cards, U.S. military officers say, as internal U.S. reviews and President-elect Barack Obama give the seven-year war a fresh look...
...international climate talks, thanks to innovative leaders like Papua New Guinea's Kevin Conrad, one of TIME's Heroes of the Environment. That has prompted big rain-forest nations like Indonesia and Brazil, which were initially suspicious of exposing their sovereign forests to an international carbon market, to rethink REDD. Last month, representatives from a handful of Indonesian and Brazilian states signed a memorandum of understanding with several large U.S. states - including California, which has already adopted a carbon cap of its own - to explore avoided deforestation projects. The possibility of tapping into California's rich carbon markets has tropical...
...Tuesday, oil fell to $46.85 a bbl., its lowest price in 3 1/2 years, down significantly from the $140 it traded for this past July. Natural-gas prices are well off highs too. And that is causing energy executives, recently determined to drill in places long considered uneconomical, to rethink their plans. "Oil and gas companies are going to meaningfully cut their budgets next year," says Larry Nichols, chief executive of Devon Energy, one of the nation's largest exploration companies. "And that includes us." (See TIME's photo gallery "Oil in the Sand...
...great phenomenon." He also praises Jaruzelski's efforts to explain motives and circumstances behind the martial law. Having stepped down in 1990 after serving as president of Poland during the transition period, the general published books and gave numerous interviews about the clampdown, forcing Poles to rethink their recent history. "He is a man who bears his crown of thorns with unusual dignity and unusual strength," says Kutz...