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Versace murder.......... 894
Viagra............... 895
Victoria’s Secret......... 896
Video games........... 897

Waco siege............ 900
Wages.SeeIncome and wages in
Canada; Income and wages
in the United States
Wallace, David Foster...... 903
Wal-Mart............. 904
Washington, Denzel....... 905
Water pollution.......... 906
WB television network...... 908
Web.SeeInternet; World Wide Web
Web logs.SeeBlogs
Wegman, William........ 908
Weil, Andrew........... 909
Welfare reform.......... 910
West Nile virus outbreak..... 912
“What would Jesus do?”
bracelets.SeeWWJD bracelets
Where’s Waldo?franchise..... 914
White House attacks....... 915
Whitewater investigation..... 915
Whitman, Christine Todd.... 917
Wigand, Jeffrey.......... 918
Wilder, L. Douglas........ 919
Will and Grace........... 920
Winfrey, Oprah.......... 921
WNBA.SeeWomen’s National
Basketball Association
(WNBA)

Wolfowitz, Paul.......... 922

Women in the military...... 923

Women in the workforce.... 925

Women’s National Basketball

Association (WNBA)..... 928

Women’s rights.......... 928

Woods, Tiger........... 931

Woodstock concerts....... 933

Workforce, women in the.See

Women in the workforce

World Cup of 1994........ 935

World Trade Center

bombing............ 937

World Trade Organization

protests............ 939

World Wide Web......... 941

WTO protests.SeeWorld Trade

Organization protests

Wuornos, Aileen Carol...... 944

WWJD bracelets......... 945

X-Files, The............ 947

Xena: Warrior Princess....... 948

Y 2K problem........... 950

Yahoo!.............. 952

Yamaguchi, Kristi......... 953

Year of the Woman........ 954

Year-round schools........ 956

Year 2000 problem.SeeY2K

problem

Zone diet............. 958

Entertainment: Major Films

of the 1990’s......... 959

Entertainment: Academy

Awards............. 967

Entertainment: Major Broadway

Plays and Awards....... 969

Entertainment: Most-Watched

U.S. Television Shows..... 977

Entertainment: Emmy

Awards............. 979

Legislation: Major U.S.

Legislation.......... 983

Legislation: U.S. Supreme

Court Decisions........ 990

Literature: Best-Selling U.S.

Books............. 997

Literature: Major Literary

Awards............ 1000

Music: Popular Musicians... 1003

Music: Grammy Awards..... 1012

Sports: Winners of Major

Events............ 1021

Time Line............ 1027

Bibliography.......... 1042

Web Sites............ 1047

Glossary............. 1050

List of Entries by Category... 1055

Photo Index............ III

Personages Index......... VII

Subject Index........... XV

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