JOHANNESBURG It has been said, correctly, that Sudan is a microcosm of Africa.

Of course, this is a microcosm of the larger changes that we can expect.

This space serves as a microcosm of order because it is known and settled.

Outside the boundaries of the microcosm lie foreign realms that, because they are unfamiliar or not ordered, represent chaos, death or night.

For the past half century, this has represented Europe s revolutionary recipe for peace, and has served as something of a microcosm of globalization.

In Mircea Eliade's opinion, Every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.

Presiding over this microcosm of Europe was a double throned Emperor King and twin parliaments representing the largely independent Austrian and Hungarian halves of the realm.

The presentations about and discussions on Security Council reform were, as a matter of fact, a microcosm of the contentious ongoing debate among representatives of Member States in New York.

JOHANNESBURG It has been said, correctly, that Sudan is a microcosm of Africa. For this reason, the entire continent will follow events in Sudan over the next few months with the greatest interest.

The options backdating scandal that recently caught Apple s chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.

This Group in itself constitutes a microcosm of the Organization, and it has harnessed the political will and leadership of its members in order to put forward viable recommendations, including on those issues where general consensus appears difficult to achieve.

In a wider sense, microlearning is a term that can be used to describe the way more and more people are actually doing informal learning and gaining knowledge in microcontent, micromedia or multitasking environments (microcosm), especially those that become increasingly based on Web 2.0 and wireless web technologies.