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...heavily politicized land-grab starting in 1998. There are widespread reports of hunger, alleviated only by food donated by the World Food Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development. But widespread food distribution, especially in areas that had voted against Mugabe, was hampered and limited. The best indicators predict that because farmers cannot obtain fertilizer, take out bank loans or depend on any consistent law and order, hunger and starvation will only escalate in the months to come...
Unfortunately, aortic dissections are impossible to predict. "You can't get screened for dissection," says Dr. Ann Bolger, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. "It's not there until it starts, and when it starts, it's almost over...
...Toronto festivals. Set in the late 1970s, Abjad is about a teenager (clearly a stand-in for the director) torn between artistic ambitions and the pressures of his parents and the new Islamic Iran. Since art is personified by a pretty neighbor, his decision isn't hard to predict. But it is cogently dramatized, with an attention to detail that makes it one of the finest recent works from that vital film industry...
...private, though, some Chinese scientists whisper that the country's stated goals-growing seeds in space or searching the moon for the isotope helium 3 for possible use in nuclear fusion reactors-could be accomplished more cheaply and easily with robotic explorers. Many predict that after the political goal of putting a man in space has been achieved, the program's timetables will stretch. Yet few Chinese scientists have dared to question the manned program openly. One who did, Wang Xiji, designed China's first recoverable satellites and argued in a technical journal last year that China "should not choose...
...Pope, 83, could finish no more than a few sentences of his opening remarks at the Bratislava airport. Vatican insiders say the apparent effects of Parkinson's disease have become more difficult for the Pope's doctors to control with medication. "They no longer are able to predict how he will be from one day to the next," said one longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official described the Pope's daily schedule as "greatly diminished," which heightens concern about his ability to make executive decisions for the church. Resignation is not being considered, according to a senior Vatican official...