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...deployments give way to a high-tech global police corps calling on small numbers of special forces. The enemy, however, will remain the same. Talking up the possibility that U.S. aggression bolsters the ranks of terror networks, Schwartz leaps into a scenario in which Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan succumb to radical Islamists within the next 10 years, with "the probability of one of them falling likely enough as to be virtually inevitable." Prediction No. 3: We'll live long enough to see whether his other predictions come true. Cloning techniques will allow scientists to replace worn-out cells...
...SARS cases continue to mount in the territory, hitting 1,358 by the end of the week, and younger and healthier people are beginning to succumb. The government has revealed the locations of buildings where SARS victims live, confirming that the disease is right next door?or at least up the street. "More people are dying and they are dying younger, and the number of new cases isn't going down," says housewife Pauline Yeung. "I'm so scared...
...final against the 30-year-old Latasha, it seemed at first that Hall would succumb to her own demons...
...calendar page. The list reminded me of nothing so much as the cardboard-and-bed-sheet boat in the New Year’s Eve parade, that other embodiment of the promise of a new year untainted by cynicism or disappointment. Before long the cardboard would succumb to the rain and wilt; before long my blockmate would stay up too late, eat unhealthily, neglect her parents, become a stranger to the MAC. But in the interim the boat bounced down the street, and my blockmate’s list, spiky with exclamation points, shone at the corner of her desk...
...Christmas tree, an artificial one that would be fresh each year. Three weeks ago, the Cochran Christmas was more like Ash Wednesday. De-Shawto and Phenom had no cash for the kids' presents. (The shelter helped out there: people donated gifts from the residents' wish lists.) But they did succumb to the kids' begging and pulled the six-foot faux evergreen tree out of storage: it's still lighted up in the living room because there aren't enough lamps to go around and the kids can huddle around it in the evenings to do their homework...