Five medical advances:
- Closer to vaccine for cancers.
- Advance in malaria vaccine.
- EPA's mercury limits will prevent 11k deaths.
- Cheaper medicine!
- Easier to choose medical insurance.
European Union crisis:
- 30-40% chance of euro (currency) breaking up.
- 20% of economists predict end of eurozone.
- Recession of 2012.
American Sports:
- Mark Cuban will not get a baseball team.
- London Olympics will pull 5.5 million viewers.
- Danica Patrick will breathe new life into Nascar.
- Time Warner and the NFL will get the NFL channel up.
- Hockey contracts will be hard-fought, but the players will take to the ice.
From a San Bernadino psychic:
- Unemployment falls to 9.5 percent in the US.
- Prince William and Kate will have a baby boy.
- Tsunami in Hawaii.
- Wildfires in Canada.
- Gold $2000 per ounce; oil $130 a barrel.
(All predictions subject to the caveat that they may not be fulfilled if the world ends in 2012.)
On a more personal note, I wish everyone a warm and wonderful Year-Change and the best 2012 they can have. Someone phone American Samoa and find out how 2012 looks so far.
