The 1990

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The 1990s

• An Overview of the Decade

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Interesting Facts

• Population 281,421,906
• Unemployment Rate 4.2
• Minimum Wage 5.15
• Average Salary 39,347
• Life Expectancy M-73.1, F-79.1
• Gas 1.16

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Whats Going On?

• Operation Desert Storm
• Fall of Soviet Union
• Conflict in Balkans
• End of Apartheid in S. Africa
• Stand-off in Waco, TX
• Rodney King/L.A. Race Riots
• Bombings of WTC and Oklahoma City Fed Building
• Trial of the Century
• Columbine, Colorado

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Lifestyle Fashion

• Information Overload
• Dot-com craze
• Shopping Online
• Death of a Princess
• Beanie Babies
• Fashion Recycled Looks
• Casual is in

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Entertainment

• Music Meets the Web
• Gangsta Rap
• Latin Rock
• Alternative
• Digital Age of Movies
• TV Shows about nothing

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Sports Leisure

• Tigermania
• Record Breakers bring fans back to baseball
• Extreme Sports

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Science Technology

• Internet
• Cell Phone
• Y2K
• Human Genome Project
• Cloning