World News and Prophecy: September - October 1999

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Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the...
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A woman in southern Kazakhstan has been hospitalized in the seventh case of bubonic plague registered this year.
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President Boris Yeltsin met his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin, and the Russian leader renewed his call for the two nations to work together to build...
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"Winning the war, but losing the peace" is a well-known maxim in history.
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This summer's withering heat has forced some power companies to warn they are on the brink of running out of electricity. And just because it hasn't...
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Warring couples in Britain can now end their marriage quickly and cheaply-using the Internet.
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Nearly a third of the world's population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, according to a report published [in August], with 7...
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Illegal drug use declined among younger teens in the United States last year, but increased slightly among young adults, according to the U.S...
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Germany wrestles with its "store closing law."
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Reports are mounting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may be preparing to step down, thus paving the way for the removal of sanctions against Iraq.
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Results of a Rutgers University study are sobering and disconcerting-the majority of today's young adults are inclined toward living together outside...
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Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden is believed to have up to 20 nuclear bombs.