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Harding parents, students demand stability
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produced 17 National
Achievement Scholars -
African American students
who score in the top one-half
percent of seniors in North
Carolina - more than the rest
of CMS combined.
Harding is also in transi
tion with new leadership and
Climate
change
hits
Africa
By Stephen Leahy
GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICE
faculty. In addition to a
teacher shortage, popular
longtime principal Curtis
Carroll left in August for
Duval County (Fla.) Schools
and was succeeded by Alicisa
Johnson, who is now out on
maternity leave. Denise
AtMnson, an assistant princi
pal at Providence High
School, wiU take over as
interim principal.
“We’ve got aU this going on
at one time,” Price-Patterson
says. “It looks like it’s setting
us up to fail, but we won’t.”
• CarroU, Harding’s princi
pal from 1999-2006, is com
ing back to CMS.
Superintendent Peter
Gorman named Carroll area
superintendent Tuesday,
where he’ll oversee underper
forming schools. Carroll, who
built his reputation for chal
lenging Harding students in
their academic pursuits, will
report directly to Gorman.
Carroll started his CMS
career in 1993 as an assistant
principal at Randolph Middle
School. He was an assistant
principal at West
Mecklenburg High, then
moved up to principal at
McCMntock Middle.
• Donald Fennoy was
appointed principal at Phillip
0. Berry Academy of
Technology. He previously
was assistant principal at
Oljonpia High School in
Orlando, Fla. Hell start work
Dec. 4.
• Stan Frazier was named
principal at E.E. Waddell
High School. He previously
was principal at Merry Oaks
Elementary.
BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov.
6, 2006 — Climate change
will devastate Africa imless
the continent gets substan
tial help from the world com
munity, according to a new
report released at the open
ing of a major U.N. Climate
Change Conference in
Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
“Africa is the least responsi
ble for climate change but
will be hit the hardest,” said
Nick NuttaU, spokesperson
for the United Nations
Environment-Program.
New scientific data shows
that Africa is more vulnera
ble to the impacts than previ
ously thought, Nuttall told
IPS from Nairobi.
Seventy million people and
30 percent of Africa’s coastal
infrastructure face the risk of
coastal flooding by 2080
linked to rising sea levels, the
report found. More than one-
third of the habitats that sup
port African wildlife could be
lost. Crop yields will fall due
to warmer temperatures and
more intense droughts.
By 2025, some 480 million
people in Africa could be liv
ing in water-scarce or water-
stressed areas.
"If Afric-a’s weather gets any
more fickle, then they are in
very deep trouble,” said Steve
Sawyer of Greenpeace
International. Sawyer is one
of 6,000 people in Nairobi
attending the United Nations
Climate Change Conference.
East Africa is losing the
snow from its mountains like
Mt. Kenya and Mt. .
Kilimanjaro, which means
rivers and streams fed by
these mountains are running
dry. Farmers will have to
relocate and they need help
right now, Sawyer told IPS.
"Chmate change is imder-
way and the international
community must respond by
offering weU-targeted assis
tance to those countries in
the finnt-line risked destruc
tion,” said Achim Steiner,
executive director of UNEP.
Africa is also the least pre
pared continent and wiU need
substantial help from devel
oped nations to cope with
impacts of climate change,
said Nuttall.
“This is the first major cli
mate change conference in
Africa. There is strong inter
est in how to help ‘climate-
proof African infrastructiu-e,”
he said.
Africa is developing eco
nomically, building roads,
railways and port facilities,
but those have to be con
structed in such a way that,
they will not disappear in 30
or 40 years because of the
impabts of climate change, he
said.
Those impacts could also
devastate the world economy,
the British government
reported last week. The
world’s economy could shrink
by 20 percent in the worst-
case scenario, but Sir
Nicholas Stem, a former chief
economist of the World Bank,
found that major economic
impacts are a certainty imder
all circumstances. And his
report also found that devel
oping regions will be hit hard
est.
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