Photograph by Randy OlsonBy 2045 Global Population Is Projected To Reach Nine Billion. Can The Planet Take The Strain? -- Robert Kunzig, National Geographic
One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer—“The Astronomer” and “The Geographer”—abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife and rushed to his worktable. Cloth was Leeuwenhoek’s business but microscopy his passion. He’d had five children already by his first wife (though four had died in infancy), and fatherhood was not on his mind. “Before six beats of the pulse had intervened,” as he later wrote to the Royal Society of London, Leeuwenhoek was examining his perishable sample through a tiny magnifying glass. Its lens, no bigger than a small raindrop, magnified objects hundreds of times.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Commentaries
Catch-22 in Pakistan -- Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times
Pakistan heading in the wrong direction -- Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Islam's blasphemy murders -- Washington Times editorial
Iraq: With Sadr Back In, Is U.S. on the Way Out? -- Tony Karon, Time Magazine
Dispelling the Myths About Sudan's Referendum -- Andrew Natsios, Real Clear World
Sudan on the brink -- Washington Post editorial
Southern Sudan's shaky future -- Anna Husarska, L.A. Times
Asia: An Oasis of Peace? -- Todd Crowell, Real Clear World
Oxfam to Bill Clinton: You're Failing Haiti -- Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy
As euro zone expands, tensions remain between stronger, weaker economies -- Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post
Military needs response plan to genocide -- Chris Taylor and Anthony Zinni, Special to CNN
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