91.   In Washington, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker declined to predict the future of U.S.-Iran relations.

92.   Incorporating images and symbols from all periods of Iraqi and Arab history, she revisits the past and also seems to predict the future.

93.   Many long term strategic plans fail because they use the past to predict the future.

94.   However, predicting the future in Afghanistan politics is futile - except to accept the unexpected, one analyst said.

95.   Islam formally forbids astrology, which it compares to witchcraft, and considers practicians as condemned to hell because it believes only God can predict the future.

96.   Astrologers are meanwhile charting the movement of stars and planets to predict the future, but they refuse to name which party they believe will form the next government.