11.   Speaking of struggling in the intellectual darkness, the column pooh-poohing the Cairo population conference brought out the Malthusians.

12.   The establishment led a popular campaign inveighing against the population conference, dubbing it the work of the Devil and describing its agenda as blasphemous to Islam.

13.   The former president had planned to visit and address the once-a-decade population conference.

14.   The population conference is to address a number of issues considered sensitive or even offensive in much of the Islamic world, including abortion and adolescent sexuality.

15.   The other day, for example, I read where the whole point of the world population conference in Cairo was the empowerment of women.

16.   The population conference is to address a number of issues considered sensitive or offensive in much of the Islamic world, including abortion and adolescent sexuality.

17.   The U.N. population conference has been an intellectually fallacious exercise in futility.

18.   The UN population conference in Cairo has had a rocky run-up, disturbing if you give a fig for the survival of humankind.

19.   The Vatican on Friday tempered its opposition to the U.N. report being produced at the population conference.

20.   The Vatican withheld its assent to the conclusions of both previous population conferences.