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DIAMON |
iPhone Killer Arrives |
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42.00 |
-2.25 |
-5.08 |
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Will the HTC Touch Diamond arrive in North America by September 31st? |
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TOPFLICKS |
iTunes Takes the Lead, Part Deux |
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43.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will iTunes become the number one movie retailer by Mar 1, 2009? |
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BLOCKCITY |
Blockbuster Buys Circuit City |
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51.50 |
-1.25 |
-2.37 |
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Will Blockbuster buy Circuit City by the end of summer? |
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WIMAXDEAD |
Sprint Abandons Wimax |
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44.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Sprint officially abandon WiMax by March 1, 2009? |
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LOOPT |
Verizon Loopt Survival |
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49.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Loopt service on Verizon phones outlive its first year? |
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EEESALES |
2008 Eee PC Sales |
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48.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Asus sell five million Eee PCs by the end of the year? |
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PHOPRO |
Cellphone Projector |
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42.75 |
-0.50 |
-1.16 |
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Will the first cellphone with a built-in projector go on sale by January 1, 2009? |
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ASUSE |
Asus E-Monitor |
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52.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Asus E-Monitor all-in-one computer cost more than $499 when it’s released later this year? |
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OLPC |
The $100 Laptop |
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45.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will One Laptop Per Child deliver one million laptops to the developing world by the end of the year? |
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HOTAIR |
MacBook Air Flop |
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52.50 |
-4.50 |
-7.89 |
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Will Apple change the design of the MacBook Air or pull it from its lineup by the end of the year? |
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NAME |
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% CHANGE |
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XCOR |
Suborbital Success |
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46.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will space-tourism company XCOR fly its suborbital vehicle by March 1, 2010? |
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LONGLIFE |
Phoenix Lander Outlives 90 Days |
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71.25 |
-2.75 |
-3.72 |
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Will the Phoenix lander last more than 90 days? |
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VRGNTST |
Test Flight by Summer |
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51.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Virgin Galactic’s carrier ship, White Knight Two, successfully complete a flight test by August 31, 2008? |
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HBLFIX |
Hubble Upgrade by Fall |
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35.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will NASA complete the Hubble upgrade this fall? |
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MARSLIFE |
Life on Mars |
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30.75 |
5.50 |
21.78 |
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Will the Phoenix lander find verifiable signs of life on the surface of Mars by January 1, 2009? |
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RAILGUN |
Railgun in Field by 2009 |
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25.25 |
-0.75 |
-2.88 |
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Will the U.S. military deploy a railgun in the field by 2009? |
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NANTXT |
Germ-Proof Military Clothing by 2010? |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will military uniforms utilizing nanotextiles for protection against chemical and biological weapons be available by 2010? |
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EADSPLN |
EADS Constructs Spaceplane |
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37.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will EADS start construction on a tourist rocket by December 31, 2008?
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ERTHLK |
Water on Earth-like Planet by 2010 |
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60.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will scientists confirm the presence of water on an Earth-like extrasolar planet by January 1, 2010? |
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SCRAMJET |
Scramjet Reaches Mach 15 |
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66.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will a scramjet-powered vehicle reach a top speed of Mach 15 by the end of 2009? |
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NAME |
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CHANGE |
% CHANGE |
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HGHTEST |
Trustworthy Test for HGH |
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40.75 |
-0.50 |
-1.21 |
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Will a reliable test for human growth hormone become commercially available by June 1? |
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HADRON |
Large Hadron Collider Functions |
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69.00 |
0.50 |
0.73 |
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Will the LHC be fully functional and producing data by October 31, 2008? |
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PLMISL |
Plum Island on Mainland |
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53.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the replacement for Plum Island be built on the U.S. mainland? |
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ARTLUNG |
Artificial-Lung Trials |
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57.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the first artificial lung enter clinical trials in 2008? |
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GENETHRPY |
Gene-Therapy Treatment for Diabetes |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will a gene-therapy treatment for diabetes be readily available within three years? |
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DBSDEP |
Deep-Brain Stim for Depression |
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54.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the FDA clear deep-brain stimulation as a treatment for clinical depression by September 30, 2008? |
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BOTS |
Androids Beat Humans in Soccer |
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47.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champs at a game of soccer by 2050? |
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NFLHGH |
NFL Allows Medical Use of HGH |
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43.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the NFL allow human growth hormone by 2012? |
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STMCURE |
Stem Cells Cure Major Disease |
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94.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will a stem cell-based cure be found for a major disease by 2015? |
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BOSON |
"God Particle" Discovery in the U.S. |
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52.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will researchers in the U.S. find the "God Particle" before researchers in Geneva do? |
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NAME |
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% CHANGE |
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PENNYGONE |
Pennies Phased Out |
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31.50 |
-4.00 |
-11.27 |
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Will the U.S. Government phase out the penny by 2009 in order to conserve metal resources? |
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ENDANGERED |
Polar Bears Added to Threatened Species List |
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39.50 |
1.50 |
3.95 |
| |
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Will the U.S. list polar bears as a threatened species by mid-May? |
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FAKEMEAT |
Successful Fake Meat |
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45.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will PETA award $1 million to a team that creates in-vitro meat by December 31, 2012? |
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HIGHERGAS |
Gasoline Breaks $4 a gallon |
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54.50 |
6.50 |
13.54 |
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Will the average gasoline price in the U.S. break $4 per gallon? |
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FUTUREGEN |
FutureGen Rescued |
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48.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will FutureGen receive funding, either from government or private sources, to continue the project? |
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CALIFUEL |
California Emissions Goal |
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49.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will California stick to its revised requirement (reduced by 70 percent from its 2003 requirement) that auto manufacturers in the state put 7,500 electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles on the road by 2014? |
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EEE10 |
Big Screen eee |
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28.00 |
-0.25 |
-0.88 |
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Will Asus release a 10-inch version of its popular budget ultra-portable laptop, the eeePC, by June 1, 2008? |
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REDRAIN |
China Tries to Suppress Olympic Rain |
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59.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will it rain during the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony? |
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SEEDS |
Seed-Vault Withdrawal |
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23.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will there be an emergency withdrawal from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in its first year of operation? |
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BEEBACK |
Fewer Honeybee Colonies Die Off in 2008 |
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49.00 |
-8.25 |
-14.41 |
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Will fewer honeybee colonies die off in 2008 than in 2007, showing the bee crisis to be a natural phase and not a portent of a larger, longer problem? |
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% CHANGE |
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CRAIGSUES |
Craigslist Countersuit |
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50.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Craigslist win countersuit against eBay by January 1, 2009 |
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SIMULEASE |
Simultaneous Theater and Online Release of Movie |
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44.25 |
-0.25 |
-0.56 |
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Will a major movie studio agree to sell digital downloads of a movie on the same day it hits theaters by November 1, 2008? |
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WINDOWS |
Microsoft Rolls out Windows |
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36.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the next version of Microsoft Windows be released by June 2009? |
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TENMBPS |
Super-Fast Broadband |
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47.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will at least 33 million households in the U.S. have 10 Mbps or faster broadband connections by 2012? |
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WIKILEAKS |
WikiLeaks Shut-Down |
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39.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will the website WikiLeaks.org be shut down by the end of the year? |
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OUTAGE |
Major Internet Outage 2008 |
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48.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Internet suffer another big outage this year? |
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IPLAW |
iPhone Lawsuits |
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41.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Apple or AT&T launch a public lawsuit against a distributor of iPhone-unlocking tools in the next six months? |
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BREACH |
Data Breaches |
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64.25 |
0.25 |
0.39 |
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Will 2008 set a record for data breaches? |
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KNOL |
Knol vs. Wikipedia |
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14.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Google's Knol site surpass Wikipedia in page views by the end of 2009? |
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GOOGROW |
Google Becomes America's Biggest Company |
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48.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Google become the biggest company in the U.S. by 2010? |
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% CHANGE |
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TESLA |
Tesla Production Ramps Up |
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56.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Tesla build 500 Roadsters by the end of the year? |
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THINK |
Th!nk City Electric Car Units Sold |
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50.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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The Th!nk City electric car will sell more than 100 units outside of Norway this year. |
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PASSCRX |
Higher Mileage Than CRX |
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32.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will any 2008 production car achieve a higher gas mileage than the 1987 Honda Civic CRX? |
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CLARITY |
Honda FCX Clarity Spreads beyond SoCal? |
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45.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the Honda FCX Clarity be available outside of Southern California by 2009? |
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VOLHYBRID |
Volvo Introduces First Plug-In Hybrid to the U.S. |
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45.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Volvo be the first to introduce a plug-in hybrid vehicle to American consumers? |
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FLYINGCAR |
Flying Car by 2025 |
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62.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will a flying car become commercially available by 2025? |
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HYBRID |
Hybrid Cars More Than 40 Percent of Vehicles Sold |
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80.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will hybrids make up more than 40 percent of the cars sold in the U.S. by 2015? |
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CHVOLT |
Chevy Plug-In Hybrid Produced |
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73.25 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Chevrolet begin selling a vehicle based on the Volt sequential plug-in hybrid concept by the end of 2010? |
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% CHANGE |
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WIIFIT |
Wii Fit Whips America into Shape |
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45.75 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will Wii Fit become the top-selling console game in the U.S.? |
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ITAX |
iTunes Tax |
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46.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will Californians have to pay a tax on iTunes purchases? |
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BLU360 |
Blu-ray Xbox 360 |
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27.75 |
-0.25 |
-0.89 |
| |
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Will Microsoft bring Blu-ray to the Xbox 360? |
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RATEDM |
Mature-Videogame Sales |
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44.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| |
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Will videogames rated“Mature” account for less than 10 percent of total game sales in 2008? |
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EVOTE |
Electronic-Voting Failure |
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64.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will there be a verified case of electronic-voting-machine failure in the presidential race that causes more than 1,000 votes to be lost or miscounted in a single precinct on Election Day? |
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GTAIV |
Grand Theft Auto Most Popular Game of Next Year |
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77.25 |
0.50 |
0.65 |
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Will Grand Theft Auto IV be the best-selling game of 2008? |
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HELMET |
Better Helmets for the NFL |
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54.50 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will the NFL give its players concussion-sensing helmets by the start of the 2008 season? |
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AIPOKER |
Computer Beats Human at Poker |
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75.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Will a computer using artificial intelligence defeat a professional poker player at Texas hold em before July 31, 2008? |
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PS3WINS |
PlayStation 3 Wins Console Wars |
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34.50 |
-1.25 |
-3.50 |
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Will the PlayStation 3 outsell both the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii by the end of 2009? |
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