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...some shelling in the morning after the government spurned a cease-fire offer from the rebels, but that stopped by the afternoon. Then tonight the fiercest exchanges of fire yet broke out around Tetovo. So while it appeared there had been some reasons for optimism earlier, the more pessimistic scenario appears to once again be taking hold...
...projections are chilling. O.C. Lin, director of the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, says if China acts swiftly to contain the epidemic it can slow the disease's spread to 1.5 million HIV-infected people by 2010. "That's the best scenario," says Lin. And even that puts an impossible burden on China's underfunded health services. "In the worst case," Lin continues, "China could have 15 million HIV cases...
Going forward, we can now reasonably expect the worst-case scenario for digital music. As I suggested in November while entertaining the possibility of Napster's defeat, the record labels, able to work together only to squash a common enemy, will now fracture and pursue Internet music distribution separately. To download their favorite tracks, consumers will now have to register and pay at more than one music site, to say nothing of figuring out which site hosts the music they're after...
...postapocalyptic scenario? Hardly. But this grim vision must cross Governor Tom Vilsack's mind when he looks at Iowa's demographic trends. The population, 96% white, is aging at an alarming rate, with younger people moving away and those who remain too old to work the farms and factories. By 2020, 20% of Iowans will be 65 or older. And even if every high school student were to stay, the work force would still decline 3% in the next five years...
...gaining from the "Sunshine Policy." Even more important, though, may be the reaction of China. Beijing, which maintains close ties with both the North Korean regime and President Kim's administration in the South, has played a major role in facilitating the rapprochement between the two Koreas - a scenario from which its stands to benefit both economically and strategically. Last year, shortly before his meeting with President Kim, the North Korean "Dear Leader" made a rare foreign trip, spending a week in consultation with Chinese leaders in Beijing. The Chinese are believed to have helped coax the diplomatically reclusive...