Word: geophysicist
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gulf Stream and plunging Europe into a 1,300-year deep freeze. The more that becomes known about this period, named the Younger Dryas (after a tundra plant), the more scientists fear that the rapid melting of sea ice could cause the same catastrophe again. Only next time, writes geophysicist Penn State's Richard Alley in a forthcoming book, Two-Mile Time Machine, the effects would be much greater, "dropping northern temperatures and spreading droughts far larger than the changes that have affected humans through recorded history." Would this be "the end of humanity?" he asks rhetorically. "No," he replies...
...promising teachers give up in the face of numerous and sometimes baffling license requirements. Says the University of Missouri's Michael Podgursky: "I don't know of any other profession that has such a bewildering set of regulations, which lack coherence and have such complexity." Ken Gibson, a former geophysicist who teaches physics at Chamblee High, found the process of obtaining certification "demeaning." Though he has a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's in geophysics and plenty of engineering experience, he had to "jump through hoops," gaining certification only after two years of teaching and three years...