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...microscopes. (Leeuwenhoek originally called them “wretched beasties,” but time has been kind to the bacteria.) He described them jumping about with their grotesque appendages and strange methods of locomotion. He collected his specimens from, among other locations, teeth that had gone a lifetime un-brushed. Leeuwenhoek is considered a founder of the study of microscopic, single-celled organisms, a discipline which has led in our day to the study of, among other things, bacteria, algae and embryonic stem cells...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Put Down That Toothbrush | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...years you are: At a UN press conference, speaking on the terms of a peace agreement that I helped negotiate between two warring nations. And still wearing my natural hair, which is much longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoped! Afro-disiac!!! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...Tuesday, Blair took center stage in the House of Commons, presenting his much-anticipated 50-page intelligence report on Hussein's weapons stockpile, which includes, according to Blair, both chemical and biological weapons. The PM called for decisive and quick action from the UN, saying, "If the international community?shrugs its shoulders and walks away?Hussein will carry on, his efforts will intensify, his confidence grow and at some point, in a future not too distant, the threat will turn into reality. The threat, therefore, is not imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Tony Blair | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

According to D’Alessandro, closing three more schools and merging them with the rest of the system would save between $1.4 and $2 million the first year after the consolidation. Most of the savings would come from reducing staff, including 20 to 25 un-tenured teachers who would be laid...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Angry Parents Fight for Schools | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...would be willing to team up with terrorist organizations with weapons of mass destruction to threaten America and our allies,” Bush told us on Monday. And if he obtains the proper “fissile material,” Bush cautioned the UN on Sept. 12, Saddam may have the potential to do all that within a year...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Apocalypse Now | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

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