1.   AN ASIA-PACIFIC CONSENSUS By Kishore Mahbubani The Asia-Pacific will be the main theater of global action in the coming century.

2.   Because of that melting-pot openness, English is equipped to strengthen and extend its second-language lead in the coming century.

3.   A new report from a group of California scientists concludes that global warming will pose grave problems for the state in the coming century.

4.   According to color analysts, consumers are looking for high-tech colors that evoke the coming century.

5.   For the coming century holds possibilities that should worry both of them.

6.   From the Turkish colonists the Chechens adopt the Sunni Muslim strain of the Islamic religion, which in coming centuries becomes blended with mystical Sufiism.

7.   He said he was hopeful that mankind would continue to make strides in fighting disease and illness and avoiding major conflicts in the coming century.

8.   Honeycutt, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations at Bentley College, views the coming century as much through the prism of race as gender.

9.   If the institution of marriage is to thrive into the coming century, it will need a more articulate defender and a more careful chronicler than Garry Marshall.

10.   If their birth rate continued at current levels, demographers say, they could surpass the Serbs in population in the coming century.