Word: predictabilities
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...declaring the end of fossil fuels, and solar-panel proponents are wary not to repeat the unfulfilled promises of the past. Solar power accounts for less than 1% of the world's energy production, and even the rosiest forecasts predict that number won't exceed 10% by 2030. Still, the industry has got its jump start. "This is ultimately a hopeful business," says Kiyama. "And that makes it a good business...
What would happen if the drinking age was rolled back to 18 or 19? Initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking as young adults savored their newfound freedom. But over time, I predict, U.S. college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol I saw on the one campus I visited where the legal drinking age is 18: Montreal's McGill University, which enrolls about 2,000 American undergraduates a year. Many, when they first arrive, go overboard, exploiting their ability to drink legally. But by midterms, when McGill's demanding academic standards must...
...frankly hard to predict,” he said. “It's in an evolving state right now.... Copyright laws are incredibly complicated...
...Ironically, Iran's decision to begin conversion of yellowcake uranium to uranium hexafluoride gas this week does not bring it significantly closer to a bomb. Iranian scientists have not actually begun enriching uranium. Arms control experts predict that it will take at least until the end of the decade before Iran is in a position to produce a bomb...
Critics have charged in the past that despite the proven value of open-source information, the government has tended to give more prominence to reports gained through cloak-and-dagger efforts. One glaring example: the CIA failed in 1998 to predict a nuclear test in India, even though the country's Prime Minister had campaigned on a platform promising a robust atomic-weapons program...