"Rapid intervention is essential in order to limit damage by chemicals and poisons, " the researchers wrote.

BBC: Hospitals 'unready' for chemical alert

Regardless of how our understanding grows, we should be clear that the Net is bigger and more essential than anything or anybody that would limit it.

FORBES: The Intention Economy: The Internet As The World Wide City

We are really pushing things to the limit in terms of their strength, so it is essential that we get the dynamics of motion right.

NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

Given the myriad of other reasons to limit human fertility (Dr Potts notes, for example, that slowing population growth is essential if poverty is to be eradicated), your correspondent cannot help but commend the report to mandarins meeting in Bangkok on September 28th to discuss the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

ECONOMIST: Fewer people would mean lower greenhouse-gas emissions