Occopodian 1996

The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding As more Americans invest, Wall Street enjoys abull market. In November, the Dow-Jones Industrial
on9-Y'ar-old Saylee Almon, who later dies, Average hits 5000, amilestone indicating healthy corporate profits and low interest rates.
comes to symbolize the horror of the April 19

bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal
Building that killed 150adults and 19 children.

Charles H. Porter, iv. syoma On April 30, the adoptive Despite Americans' doubts and
~arents of four-year-old "Baby fears, U.S. t~oQ~ bead for
Richard" comply with an Illinois Bosnia in December. The
etrurt order to turn the child over 20,000 U.S. forces, serving
to his biological parents. under NATO command beside
40,000 European allies, face
Area Closed the task of keeping peace
among the country's warring
to lacAk roeaf closed due Serbs, Croats and Muslims.
appropriations.
The State of South Carolina
ernment shuts down for six days in November after the sentences Susan Smith to life
■rM-irPnt and Congress fail to agree on how to balance the in prison for the drowning
e era udget. The shutdown affects non-essential federal services, murder of her two young sons
including the National Park Service. Alonger shutdown foilc..ws in 1994.
in December.
An anonymous donor sends
St. Jude's Children's
Research Hospital in Memphis
$1 million in the form of a
winning ticket from McDonald's
November "Monopoly"
sweepstakes game.

In the wake of a growing
number of random attacks from
assailants with knives and
guns, White House security is
forced to close Pennsylvania
Avenue to traffic.

After allegedly ignoring federal
pollution regulations for years,
General Motors agrees under
threat of an $11-milllon fine to
recall 500,000 Cadillacs at a
cost of $45 million.

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Arecord snowfall paralyzes the Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice The Washington Post publishes AChicago commuter train slams American women celebrate the
East Coast in January 1996, of the U.S. Supreme Court from amanifesto written by the into the back end of aloaded 75th anniversary of the 19th
stranding travelers and killing 1969 to 1986, dies In June at unidentified killer known as school bus. The accident, amendment to the U.S.
100 people. Seven states, from age 87. Though appointed by "The Unabomber," at large allegedly caused by a poorly Constitution, which granted
Virginia to Massachusetts, President Richard Nixon, he since 1978 and wanted for 16 timed stoplight placed too near women the right to vote.
'declare emergencies. ordered Nixon to turn over mail bombs that have killed 3 the tracks, kills 7 students and Women's suffrage leader Susan
Philadelphia gets 30.7 inches tapes in the Watergate hearings and injured 23. FBI agents injures 28 on October 25. B. Anthony (1820-1906) first
of snow. that effectively ended the scrutinize the article for clues to organized the fight for suffrage
president's career. the bomber's identity. in 1848.

Wubbo De Jong/He! Parool from Sygma

Asffll,result of an improperly In March, the Federal Drug
cleaned test tube at afertility
cimrc, awoman in the Netherlands Administration approves achicken-
gives birth to twin boys, each from
adifferent father. pox vaccine. Rarely fatal,

chicken-pox affects 3.7 million

Americans annually.

logists discover a
year-old tomb in May
a rs elieved to hold the
remains of 52 sons of
Ramses 11, Pharaoh of Egypt.

Researchers announce that
they have isolated agene in
mice linked to obesity. Mice
with a mutated OB gene are
injected with the hormone
leptin, resulting in dramatic
weight loss. The public is
tantalized at the prospect of
leptin as aslimming treatment
for use in humans.

ing photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a
ent in the birth of astar in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years
rom arth. Light from the young star's nuclear furnace lifts towering
pillars of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust.

The world's first test-tube gorilla Fossils of ajawbone (left) and Media attention focuses on In aprocedure known as tissue As aprotective measure against
is born at the Cincinnati Zoo in leg bone (right) found in Kenya melatonin, anaturally occurring engineering, scientists grow a counterfeiting in the era of digital
October as part of an effort to in August reveal apreviously hormone used to induce sleep human ear under the skin of a publishing, the Treasury
save the western lowland gorilla, unknown species of upright and slow the effects of aging. laboratory mouse. Researchers Department redesigns U.S.
an endangered species that hominid that lived four million Lauded as a wonder drug, a hope the procedure will play an currency bills, to be issued over
numbers fewer than 450 animals. years ago, pushing the kilogram of synthetic melatonin important role in the future of the next five years, starting early
emergence of bipedalism back sells for as much as $10,000. transplant surgery. 1996 with the new $100 bill.
half amillion years. Walking
upright is akey adaptation that
separates humans from apes.

rmer rivals in space become InJune, volcanic eruptions give birth to ababy
omrades in space after the land. Anew member of the Tonga Islands
n oric docking of theU.S. erges near New Zealand, 900 feet high and
spaceshuttle Atlantis and
Russia's Mirspace station on 40 feet wide.
June 29. Astronaut Robert
Gibson (in red) greets After a decad earch,
cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov.
scientists isolate what may be
'-°1'.·
the most important cancer-
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.. related gene. The defective

uyers rush to stores for the gene known as ATM is
new,Omputer operating
system Windows 95, spurred by associated with cancers of
Microsoft Corp.'s $700-million
publicity barrage andthe the breast, colon, lung,
promise of afriendlier interface.
stomach, pancreas and skin,

and may be carried by two

million Americans.

Astronomers using
Space Telescope o
moons orbiting the
Saturn, adding at I

moons and posstbl
Saturn's previous
total of 18.

The movie Apollo 13 opens in Ateam of French aQd British
I the summer after filming explorers believe they have
found an ancient breed of horse
many of its scenes inside NASA's previously unknown to
"zero gravity" plane, which scientists. In November, the
mimics theweightlessness four-foot high horse with a
astronauts experience inspace by triangular head, which
diving intoa23-second freefall. resembles the vanished horses
of European Stone Age
drawings, is named Riwoche
for its home region in Tibet.

October satellite photographs

show the recent rapiJ,l.
deterioration of the earth's

ozone layer above Antarctica.
Pollutants produced mostly by
the U.S. cause the hole In
the atmosphere's protective

layer to imease to the size

of Europe.

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In November, Visa introduces a Now virtual reality comes in a New research shows that the meat-eating
cash-storage card that handy travel size with Nintendo's
eliminates apocketful of loose latest, Virtual Boy, aportable 3-D Tyrannosaurus rex did not loom upright, but
video-game system with stalked along lower to the ground. The discovery
Jnlnge. Achip in the plastic card
\racks the amount of available stereophonic sound. is reflected In the reopened exhibits of the famed
cash, which is accessed with a dinosaur halls of New York's American Museum
leader at the place of purchase. of Natural History after three years of redesign.

The card can be taken to the
bankand reloaded.

hneews

With $150,000 saved during
her 75 hardworking years
as awasherwoman, Oseola
,V,cCarty establishes a
scholarshipfund for African-
American students at the
University of Southern
Mississippi. For her self-
lessness, she is awarded the
Presidential Citizens Medal.

·A. _ well known for her railblazer Shannon Faulkner (hand to head)
withdraws from the Citadel after collapsing
l'\a1u• rances in Aerosmith
ing "hell week."Faulkner singlehandedly
musfc videos, 19-year-old Alicia
attemptedto bust the gender barrier at the
Silverstone achieves stardom ill-male South Carolina military institution.

with the 1995 summer movie

hit Clueless.

Bill Jordan, Charleston Post Courierlrom Sipa Prass

Millions of Americans tune in to Bill Gates, founder and chairman Hot actor Antonio Banderas falls Seventies superstar John Sandra Bullock follows up her
Martha Stewart's 1V show, of the computer giant Microsoft, in love with another screen sex- Travolta's motion-picture star-making role in Speed with
subscribe to her magazine, and becomes the wealthiest man in symbol Melanie Griffith during comeback in the 1994 hit Pulp the gentle romance While You
read her books. The popular the world on the success of his the filming of Two Much. Fiction continues with starring Were Sleeping. Bullock's fresh,
cooking and home-decorating company's software. His book Banderas will co-star with roles in Get Shorty and wholesome image earns her an
The Road Ahead hits The New Madonna in the film version of Broken Arrow. "Entertainer of the Year"
entrepreneur builds an empire by York Times best-seller list. Evita and will star in Steven nomination from Entertainment
Spielberg-produced Zorro. Weekly magazine.
packagingadistinctive American
nostalglc style.

America is disappointed in its high hopes for Colin Powell's 1996
presidential candidacy. At the close of his whirlwind book to~r for

My~merican Journey, the General and his_ wife Alm~ a~nounce m
November that he will not seekthe Republican nomination.

A 10-year-old St. Louis schoolboy, Cliristopher Reeve, in a Calvin Klein's rov atfve CK
l"\Larry Champagne 111, becomes a wheelchair and hooked up to Jeans campa1 ses an
her by taking control of his school aportable respirator, appears uproar in August, bringing
bus after the driver suffered astroke. with his wife, Dana, at the nasty headlines, threats of
American Paralysis Association's retailer boycotts and an FBI
Champagneis later awarded a$10,000 annual gala on November 9, investigation. The scandal only
less than five months after afall seems to help sales.
scholarship by the bus company. from ahorse left him almost
totally paralyzed. Michael Jackson and Lisa
Marie Presley announce their
divorce almost ayear after
their surprise marriage. The
tabloids have a field day
speculating about the reasons
for the marriage (was it a cold-
hearted career move?) as well
as the causes for the break-up
(was he after Elvis' fortune?).

Breaking the Surface, the
autobiography of Greg
Louganis, former U.S. Olympic
gold-medal diver who revealed
earlier that he has AIDS, debuts
at No. 2 on the best-seller 11st.

Popcorn magnate Orville
Redenbacher, who transformed
popping corn into a gourmet
item, dies on September 19
from heart failure.

Two Chinese women set a new
Guiness world record in
November by living in a room
for 12 days with 888 poisonous
snakes. The previous world
record, set in Singapore in
1987, was 10 days with
200 snakes.

Actress Demi Moore becomes Favorite of America's heartland Model Beckford Tyson, singled Miss Oklahoma Shawntel Smith John F. Kennedy, Jr., is
the highest paid woman in for his You Might Be A Redneck out by Ralph Lauren for his all- is crowned Miss America on cofounder and editor-in-chief of
If... jokes, Georgia-born stand-up American looks, signs an September 16. During the George, aglossy new magazine
Hollywood, able to command comic and author Jeff Foxworthy exclusive contract with the broadcast of the 75th pageant, covering American politics.
$12.5 million per movie, even gets his own ABC sitcom In fashion designer in 1995. viewers phone in their votes to Hounded all his life by the press,
after this year's flop at the box which he plays himself. retain the swimsuit competition. Kennedy joins their ranks,
office The Scarlet Letter, loosely contributing afeature interview
based on Hawthorne's classic. to each issue.

Batman Forever, with Val The fifth actor to play 007 in the enduring film
Kilmer in the title role and series begun in the 1960s, Pierce Brosnan
Chris O'Donnell as Robin, abandons his Aston Martin for a BMW Z3
becomes the third Batman Roadster in Goldeneye, the latest and, some
movie and the summer's top- say, best James Bond movie.
grossing film.
Three 1995 movies bring Jane Austen classics
to the silver screen: Clueless, based on
Austen's novel Emma, and Sense and Sensibility
and Persuasion.

isney Pictures continues its
line of animated
blockbusters with the Native
American legend Pocahontas.
The picture previews in New
York's Central Park to an
outdoor audience of 200,000.

After an unpromising start, Whitney Houston stars in the Denzel Washington, critically Although ABC cancels her TV In the suspense-thriller Seven,
Conan O'Brien quietly gains December film release, Waiting acclaimed for his performances series "My So-Called Life," heartthrob Brad Pitt attracts a
popularity as host of NBC's "Late to Exhale, adapted from Terry in films Crimson Tide and Devil 17-year-old Claire Danes hits the wide male audience with his
Night," aslot previously filled by McMillan's best-selling novel in a Blue Dress, receives highest big screen in How to Make an performance as adetective on
David Letterman. Letterman's about the lives of four middle- praise from the City of Los American Quilt, To Gillian on Her the trail of aserial killer whose
current show on CBS slowly class African-American women. Angeles, which honors him with 37th Birthday, and Romeo and murders are based on the seven
loses viewers. Houston sings the title song for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio deadly sins.
the movie soundtrack, which Award for his philanthropic work as her co-star.
enjoys brisk sales. on behalf of children.

N C's hospital drama "E.R." continues to Disney Entertainment spends
raw high ratings throughout 1995 thanks to
its ramatic realism and the appeal of handsome *$19 billion topurchase the ABC

~orge Clooney (middle right), supermodel television netwoa.i,n
Cmdy Crawford's latest date.

Disney Pictures from Shooting Star

Toy Story is the world's first MTV inb'odu SI I O "
entirely computer-animated
fil . Released by Disney during asnhoowvwerh-ethree-9te9p9q&HifUtiJtmi.•e

ttie Christmas season, it features random, pointless questions of
the voices of Tom Hanks, nm acrowd of suHors, sight
unseen, until the zany answers
Allen, and Don Rickles. have eliminated all but that
one perfect !love match.

f9 According to a Roper Youth
Poll, the two hottest TV shows
among teens this season are
the daytime soap "Days of Our

Lives" and the ev 111p:

"Melrose Place."

Carrey earns $20 million for the starring "The Jon Stewart Shaw"
le in the comedy Ace Ventura: When
ure Calls, a sequel to the extraordinarily late-night talk show. aimd at
pular Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Generation X, ·fails c hon.
During the final taping, host
Stewart says, "To all tllose
people who said m show
wouldn't last, I ha1111H1111N-.NNI

thing to say. Good call. "

The popular NBC TV series "Friends" returns
for asecond highly rated season. Its
runaway success inspires less successful
imitations by other networks.

Devoted fans will not be denied
another season of NBC's sitcom
"Seinfeld" after all. Creator Jerry

Seinfeld decides to keep his
"show about nothing"
going for an

eighth season.

J'en years after creating the Horror-fiction author Stephen Fox TV's "The XFiles" stars
popular comic strip "Calvin and King signs a deal with Signet David Duchovny as an FBI agent
Hobbes," cartoonist Bill books to release his upcoming who investigates supernatural
Watterson retires in December. story, The Green Mile, as a phenomena. The show becomes
paperback series. asurprise hit, giving millions of
viewers reason to look forward to
staying home on a Friday night.

Their own-to-earth style and Cleveland-based rap group
soultfll pop songs make Bone Thugs-n-Harmony vault
Hootie and the Blowfish popular to tfle fop of the charts with
favorites. Their debut album some old-fashioned harmonizing
Cracked Rear View sells over 5 on the album E. 1999 Eternal.
million, and the group is named
V oko Ono and Little Richard
Best New Artist at the MTV TI in ahost of celebrities at
Music Awards in September.
pening of the glitzy Rock-
and-Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum in Cleveland on
September 1.

Twenty-year-old Canadian Sixties icon Jerry Garcia, Brandy, whose self-titled Beatlemania returns in 1995 with The chart-topping movie
newcomer Alanis Morissette guitarist of The Grateful Dead, platinum album and single "I ABC's six-hour documentary The soundtrack Dangerous Minds
raises some eyebrows with her dies of aheart attack on August Wanna Be Down" hit high on the Beatles Anthology, the video features Coolie's rap anthem
up-front, aggressive lyrics and 9 at age 53. Garcia's musical R&B charts, sweeps the first releases of A Hard Day's Night "Gangsta's Paradise," the
attitudes. Nevertheless, her roots in blues, country and folk Soul Train Music Awards in and Help/ and the album number-one single of the year
album Jagged Little Pill goes are apparent in hits like August. The 16-year-old singer collection Anthology, featuring according to Billboard magazine.
double platinum. "Truckin'." Legions of wins Best New Artist, among previously unreleased material.
Deadheads mourn his passing. other awards.

Their town-to-earth style and uesTraveler emerge from
soulftll pop songs make heunderground scene to
Hootie andthe Blowfish popular wldespreaa popularity with their
favorites. Their debut album album Four and the single
Cracked Rear View sells over 5 "Run-Around."
million, and the group is named
f'\levetand-based rap group
Best New Artist at the MTV
Music Awards in September. \18one Thugs-n-Harmony vault

to ffle fop of the charts with
some old-fashioned harmonizing
on the album E. 1999 Eternal.

V oko Ono and Little Richard
TI in a host of celebrities at

the pening of the glitzy Rock-
and-Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum in Cleveland on
September 1.

Twenty-year-old Canadian Sixties icon Jerry Garcia, Brandy, whose self-titled Beatlemania returns in 1995 with The chart-topping movie
newcomer Alanis Morissette guitarist of The Grateful Dead, platinum album and single "I ABC's six-hour documentary The soundtrack Dangerous Minds
raises some eyebrows with her dies of a heart attack on August Wanna Be Down" hit high on the Beatles Anthology, the video features Coolio's rap anthem
up-front, aggressive lyrics and 9at age 53. Garcia's musical R&B charts, sweeps the first releases of A Hard Day's Night "Gangsta's Paradise," the
attitudes. Nevertheless, her roots in blues, country and folk Soul Train Music Awards in and Help/ and the album number-one single of the year
album Jagged Little Pill goes are apparent in hits like August. The 16-year-old singer collection Anthology, featuring according to Billboard magazine.
''Truckin'." Legions of wins Best New Artist, among previously unreleased material.
double platinum. Deadheads mourn his passing. other awards.

dicate their single TheChicago-based rock band Smashing Pumpkins
..... ,...,111 ,,hiing Crashes" to release their epic double album Mellon Collie and the
Infinite Sadness to critical and public acclaim.
v1c 1ms of the Oklahoma City
ariah Carey's Daydream
bombing. The rock band's sells over 5 million copies,
Throwing Copper album yields g number-one spot on the
1lboard album chart. Carey
three hit singles; Billboard Music performs with Boyz II Men on
the hit single "One Sweet Day."
Awards names them Rock Artist

of the Year.

R.E.M.'s SUl~d.ll•r is

interrupted ·cal

emergencie h a of the

band's four lll'IIIIINftll-i:::fhe tour,

their first in · , Is

eventually completed wittt all

members in good health.

In October, David Bowie and
Nine Inch Nails wrap up the
U.S. portion of Bowie's world
tour. At each show, 'Bowie and
Trent Reznor's band play a set
together. In December. Bowie
tours Europe with Morrissey as

his opening act.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers ,tone
down their trademark
bawdiness in their newest
album, One Hot Minute.

anta's TLC is honored at the Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl plays a new
illboard Music Awards for sound as guitarist and lead singer in the Foo
Fighters, an alternative rock band that enjoys three
idingtwo of the year's biggest singles off their self-titled debut album in 1995.
nils. "Creep" and "Waterfalls" both
lead the Hot 100 singles charts
for weeks.

Ahard-luck story turns into Success doesn't mellow the style Seal's hit off the Batman Forever With the record-setting sales of Selena, the 23-year-old Tejano
overnight success in the case of of alternative rock band Green movie soundtrack, "Kiss From a his album Fresh Horses, only music queen, is gunned down in
Canadian Shania Twain, born in Day, who release their anxiously Rose," is all over the summer three musical acts in U.S. history Corpus Christi in March 1995 by
poverty to an Irish mother and awaited fourth album Insomniac, playlists. The single propels the outsell country music icon Garth Yolanda Saldivar, former
an Ojibway Indian father. Twain's their fastest and darkest album artist's self-titled album to the Brooks: the Beatles, the Eagles, president of her fan club. The
1995 hits include "Whose Bed to date. double-platinum mark. and Billy Joel. July release of acollection of
Have Your Boots Been Under?," Selena's hits, Dreaming of You,
"Any Man of Mine" and the title sees some of the fastest sales in
tune to her 3-million-selling music history.
album The Woman In Me.

New Jersey Devils win The most controversial moves are
the National Hockey off the field this season as the
L,eague's Stanley Cup, Cleveland Browns NFL franchise
beating the heavily favored announces its move to Baltimore
Detroit Red Wings in four and the Houston Oilers announce
straight games. their move to Nashville.

International soccer star InMay 1995, Peter Blake's

Michelle Akers, world's top 1l mNew Zealand in "Black
woman player, leads the U.S.
women's soccer team to a2-1 ic 1" defeats Dennis
sudden-death victory over 'Conner's team in "Young
Norway in the U.S. Cup title
gamein August. America" in the first 5-0 sweep
in the 144-year history of the
America's Cup.

Super Bowl XXX, the heavily favored

llas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh

eler~ i1-1 L Dallas arnerback Larry

Brown ices the game for the Cowboys with
the second of his two interceptions,,and is

named MVP for his heroics.

Jeff Gordon, 24, dominates the The University of Nebraska The Houston Rockets, led by Twenty-one-year-old tennis Hall-of-Farner Mickey Mantle, a
National Association for Stock demolishes the University of center Hakeem Olajuwon, win champ Monica Seles, returning switch-hitter and one of the great
Car Auto Racing's Winston Cup, Florida, 62-24, in the 1996 Fiesta their second consecutive to competitive play two years sluggers in baseball history, dies
winning 7 of NASCAR's 31 races Bowl to win their second National Basketball Association after being stabbed at a of cancer on August 13. Mantle
and earning $4.3 million in 1995, consecutive national college championship in June, sweeping tournament in Germany, wins hit 536 home runs in his 18-year
a record for the sport. football title and cap the series with the Orlando the 1995 Australian Open. career and compiled a lifetime
Cornhuskers coach Tom Magic in four games. batting average of .298.
Osborne's 23rd season.

eNational Basketball Association fines the Chicago
ulls $25,000 when Michael Jordan wears his previously
ed number 23 jersey for luck during championship
payoffs against the Orlando Magic in May 1995.

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nta Braves edge the · t guard
nd Indians 1-0 in game u Earvin "Mag· " n
six o win theWorld Series on
October 28. Closing pitcher Mark announces a return to
Wohlers leaps for joy.
basketball in January 1996.
In eptember, BaltimoreOrioles shortstop Cal Ripkin, Jr.,
Johnson retired in 1991
achieves arecord-setting 2,131 consecutive games.
when he discovered he was

HIV positive.

German tennis star Steffi Graf, The Northwestern University
who won three of five Grand Wildcats-long a gridiron
Slam titles in 1995, ends the laughingstock-pile up ten
professional tennisseason victories in 1995 and go to the
ranked number one in the world. Rose Bowl for the first time
since 1949.
National Basketball Association
In his first fight In four years,
referees strike against the league former world heavyweight
champ Mike Tyson disposes of
for much of the autumn. Fill-in challenger Peter McNeeley in
89 seconds. Tyson, who in
March finished athree-year Jail
term for a rape conviction,
earns $25 million for the
August boxing match.

officials spark complaints of Pete Sampras, winner of the
substandard refereeing. 1995 men'ssingles
championships at Wimbledon
and the U.S. Open, ends the
professional tennis season with
a number-one world ranking.

-~ Master of the sinking fastball
and still learning to speak
-.::.·... ----- English, L.A. Dodgers pitcher
Hideo Nomo, formerly with
the Kintetsu Buffaloes in
Japan, is named Rookie of
the Year. Nomo is the
second Japanese-born
player to join the U.S.
major leagues, and the
first All-Star.

Known for his temperamental For a record fifth straight time, Betsy King wins her 30th Quarterback Dan Marino of the
personality, his many tattoos and Miguel lndurain of Spain wins tournament on June 25 and Miami Dolphins sets four life-
his aggressiveplaying style, the 22-day, 2,270-mile Tour de gains entry to the Ladies' time passing records during the
basketball center Dennis France, the world's premier Professional Golf Association's 1995 football season: 47,003
Rodman (91) debuts with the bicycle race. On the 15th day of Hall of Fame, one of the most yards, 342 touchdowns, 3,686
Chicago Bulls after his trade the race, Italian road-race champ difficult attainments in sports. completions and 6,467 attempts.
from the San Antonio Spurs. Fabio Casartelli is killed in a
seven-man crash.

The most recent fad in purses Diners are treated to variations Youngpeople continue to follow trn
takes the form of small on theme cafes, as Hard wide-leg jeans trend,forsakingtigh·
backpacks. Rock Cafe is joined by Fashion jeans for aloose baggy fit
C"afe, Planet Hollywood, Harley-
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Cyberia Cafe
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popular history of people from being marked for
museums climbs to 600 million people per M&M's candies: a new blue life. Pulsed laser light, adifferent
year, more than movie, theater, and sports M&M joins the colorful candy- wavelength for each color in the
coated mix. tattoo, removes pigment without
attendance combined. leaving scars.
Logo-wear reaches a new level
of sophistication. Among the
reigning makers of athletic wear,
only Nike can spark recognition
without the use of its name.

Girly things enjoy asurge in Taking her place among The angel message of "fear not" "Some pretty cool people drink milk" is the message carried by a
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