1.   Food shortages are so severe that mass starvation is a definite possibility.

2.   And additional increases remain a definite possibility, although the PUC and the bankruptcy judge will have to thrash out who has ultimate jurisdiction.

3.   Black, pink and green abalone also have experienced catastrophic declines in recent years, and extinction is a definite possibility for them.

4.   But the Stars have proved that playing well without Hull is a definite possibility.

5.   Deeper states of neural devastation are a definite possibility.

6.   Filling them full of booze is not the answer, but making them knock a large pebble toward a sheep turd has definite possibilities.

7.   He has great offensive skill, and is a definite possibility, especially if the Knicks move down a few notches in the draft.

8.   NFL Europe is a definite possibility.

9.   Peering through the ice thickening on the window and thinking of the two days that still lay ahead aboard the train, death by frostbite seemed a definite possibility.

10.   San Jose has been talking about adding quality on the blue line, so a significant free-agent signing is a definite possibility.