The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "prehistoric comedy". I see a caveman. I see laughing crowds. I see Chicago. I see spandex jackets. The future becomes clear.

Rob Becker's play Defending the Caveman, a comedy about how men and women struggle to relate, is playing in Chicago. This much you can learn...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "Douglas Ankara". I see a wedding. I see two cities. I see the Orient. I see Spain. The future becomes clear.

On March 28, 1920, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford married. Ten years later the names of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara....
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "each morsel". I see little fish. I see bigger fisher. I see even bigger fishermen. The future becomes clear.

During the past fishing season, striped bass provided good fishing off the Connecticut coast until bluefish began consuming too much of the local baitfish. Without the small...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "tint apart". I see brows. I see eyes. I see deep into the soul. The soul of capitalism, that is. The future becomes clear.

Eyebrow grooming has a history dating back to ancient Egypt. Well worked brows can enhance the beauty of a face and distract...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "attain Bangkok". I see basketballs. I see tennis balls. I see buckyballs. The future becomes clear.

Grand Sport Group of Thailand has acquired ball making technology from Spalding, and is planning to begin manufacture of millions of tennis balls. This much you can learn without a...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "Tasmania plough". I see the Tasmanian devil. I see bugs. No, not bugs Bunny. The bugs are the Tasmanian devils. The future becomes clear.

New Zealand lettuce aphids have been found in Australia for the first time, on the island of Tasmania, and millions of dollars...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "arrogant hermit". I see a sword. I see a stone. I see a bone. The future becomes clear.

Archaeologists hope to unearth the remains of medieval knight Galgano Guidotti, an arrogant and lustful knight who later became a hermit. A sword reputed to have been miraculously...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "escalator duty". I see people going up. I see people going down. The future becomes clear.

The advent of well-maintained, air conditioned malls in India symbolizes a transformation underway. In-duty elevators and escalators, graffiti-free walls and no litter reflect the upward ride that the nation is...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "silent fuse". I see nothing. I see something. The future becomes clear.

French and Swiss astronomers claim to have found the most distant galaxy ever seen, 13.23 billion light years from earth. The light from this galaxy is said to have been emitted when the universe...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "agrarian daughter". I see an oriental countryside. I see a carrot. I see a ballot. The future becomes clear.

Park Geun-hye, daughter of former military leader Park Chung-hee has been elected leader of the Grand National Party, South Korea's main opposition party in an attempt to...
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