1.   Scientists cannot predict when an earthquake will occur.

2.   Scientists predicted that solitons should be very mobile, but only along the polymer chains.

3.   Scientists had predicted that glaciers in the central latitudes would provide an early indicator of global warming, and the latest studies appear to bear this out.

4.   And the effects have been surprisingly small, much less severe than most scientists predicted when the studies were begun, according to Dr. Mort Mendelsohn.

5.   As scientists had previously predicted, the recovery from the Pinatubo cooling became obvious last year, though no record was set.

6.   Automated software, computer scientists at IBM predict, will search different suppliers and negotiate prices with them.

7.   Before long, some scientists predict, some machinery and materials will be produced from the bottom up, precisely assembled one atom at a time.

8.   Better yet, it could enable scientists to predict violence-prone areas, much as geologists can identify areas where building tensions below ground threaten to trigger earthquakes.

9.   A controversial means of sterilizing meat may become increasingly common, food scientists predict.

10.   But at the Southeast Region Climate Center scientists are predicting that current drought conditions in Florida and South Georgia will likely expand northward over the coming weeks.