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- SPECIAL ISSUE: MILLENNIUM -- BEYOND THE YEAR 2000 THE GREAT EVENT, Page 12The Future Poll
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- In which various intriguing questions are posed to the great
- American public
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- If you had to predict, which of the following do you think are
- likely to occur in the 21st century?
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- -- Scientists will find a cure for AIDS 75%
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- -- Scientists will find a cure for cancer 80%
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- -- Scientists will find a cure for the common cold 39%
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- -- The average American will live to be 100 57%
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- -- A woman will be President of the U.S. 76%
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- -- A black will be President of the U.S. 76%
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- -- Automobiles will no longer run on gasoline 75%
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- -- Computers will be as smart as humans and have
- personalities like humans 44%
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- -- Humans will make regular trips to other planets 43%
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- -- Beings who live on other planets will come in
- contact with us 32%
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- -- There will be one world government ruling the
- entire planet 22%
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- -- There will be one worldwide religion 11%
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- Compared with the 20th century, do you think the 21st
- century will have more:
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- -- Wars 32%
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- -- Environmental disasters 59%
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- -- Poverty 61%
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- -- Disease 53%
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- -- Hope for the future 62%
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- Which country will be the greatest threat to the U.S.'s
- dominant position in world affairs in the 21st century?
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- Japan 22%
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- Russia 14%
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- China 13%
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- Iraq 7%
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- Germany 7%
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- Will the Second Coming of Jesus Christ occur sometime in
- the next thousand years?
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- Yes 53%
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- No 31%
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- Will religion play a greater role in the lives of people in
- this country after the year 2000?
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- Greater 55%
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- Lesser 37%
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- Do you think the world will be in better shape at the end
- of the 21st century than it is today?
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- Better 41%
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- Worse 32%
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- About the same 15%
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- Which of each pair has had the most impact on the course of
- history in the past thousand years?
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- Printing press 47%
- Television 51%
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- Christopher Columbus 65%
- Neil Armstrong 33%
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- Thomas Edison 55%
- Albert Einstein 41%
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- Beethoven 58%
- The Beatles 39%
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- American Revolution 46%
- World War II 50%
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- Electricity 79%
- Automobile 17%
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- Abraham Lincoln 59%
- Martin Luther King Jr. 36%
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- Mikhail Gorbachev 57%
- Karl Marx 35%
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- Gunpowder 41%
- Nuclear weapons 56%
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