Caution will be the watchword for the Year of the Rat, the new lunar
year that begins Thursday, as Chinese fortune tellers predict financial
and political rumblings, tsunamis and epidemics in the year ahead. Be sure to
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The reason, they say, is that water and earth -- two of the five elements Chinese mystics believe are at the root of all things -- are in conflict in 2008.
(Source: AP)
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