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Can You Know What Lies Ahead?
We greet the dawn of a new year with
excitement and enthusiasm. A new year brings new opportunities, an occasion for a
fresh start. We imagine all sorts of new possibilities.
This year, 1999, brings a special tinge of anticipation as we count down to midnight
on Dec. 31, 2000, which will mark the end not only of century but
a millennium. Only a tiny fraction of humanity has ever heard the clock strike that
magical moment that separates any one 1,000-year period from the next.
The start of a new year is a time for reflection, for considering where we have come
from, where we are and where we are going. So what lies ahead for us?
Much of The Good News is devoted to newsñespecially significant news events and articles
about world conditions. But there's more to the magazine than just that. We like
to think of The Good News as a news magazine with
a difference.
Many magazines and newspapers report the news. Many do an admirable job of keeping
us informed of events in far-off corners of the world. But few if any of them explain
why these events occur. They have no basis for explaining why certain things come
to pass or why some conditions never seem to change
in spite of our best efforts to find solutions.
In spite of our ingenuity, we human beings are frustratingly incapable of solving
some of our most basic problems: our inability to get along with one another; the
seeming impossibility of erasing poverty and hunger; our governments and leaders
focused on preserving and expanding their own power rather than empowering their
citizens to better their lives; the gap between
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