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The Future Poll

If you had to predict, which of the following do you think are likely to occur in the 21st century?

-- Scientists will find a cure for AIDS 75%

-- Scientists will find a cure for cancer 80%

-- Scientists will find a cure for the common cold 39%

-- The average American will live to be 100 57%

-- A woman will be President of the U.S. 76%

-- A black will be President of the U.S. 76%

-- Automobiles will no longer run on gasoline 75%

-- Computers will be as smart as humans and have personalities like humans...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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