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Mapplethorpe obscenity trial... 550
Marilyn Manson......... 552
Marriage and divorce...... 553
Mars exploration......... 554
Matrix, The............ 556
Medicine............. 557
Men Are from Mars, Women
Are from Venus......... 560
Menendez brothers murder
case.............. 561
Metallica............. 562
MetLife scandal......... 563

Africa and the United States

States............. 564
Michelangelo computer
virus.............. 566
Microsoft............. 566
Middle East and North
America............ 568
Midnight basketball....... 571
Military, homosexuals in.See
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Military, women in the.See
Women in the military
Militia movement........ 572
Millennium bug.SeeY2K problem
Milli Vanilli............ 573
Million Man March....... 574
Minimum wage increases.... 576
Minorities in Canada....... 578
Mississippi River flood of
1993.............. 579
Mistry, Rohinton......... 580
Montana Freemen standoff... 581
Moore, Judge Roy........ 582
Morissette, Alanis........ 583
Morris, Dick........... 584
Morrison, Toni.......... 585
Mount Pleasant riot....... 586
Movies.SeeFilm in Canada;
Film in the United States
Mozart effect........... 588
MP3 format............ 589
MTV Unplugged.......... 590
Mulroney, Brian......... 591
Murphy Brown........... 593
Music............... 595
Musicals.SeeBroadway musicals
Myers, Mike............ 599

NAFTA.SeeNorth American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Nanotechnology......... 601
National debt........... 602

National Endowment for the

Arts (NEA).......... 603

Native Americans......... 605

Natural disasters......... 607

NC-17 rating........... 609

NEA.SeeNational Endowment

for the Arts (NEA)

Nicotine patch.......... 610

Nine Inch Nails.......... 611

Nirvana.............. 612

Nobel Prizes........... 614

Noriega capture and trial.... 616

North American Free Trade

Agreement (NAFTA)..... 618

North Hollywood shoot-out... 619

Northern Exposure......... 621

Northridge earthquake..... 622

Novello, Antonia Coello..... 624

Nunavut Territory........ 625

Nye, Bill.............. 625

NYPD Blue............. 627

Oakland Hills fire........ 629

O’Connor, Sinéad........ 631

Oklahoma City bombing..... 632

Oklahoma tornado outbreak... 635

Olympic basketball team.See

Dream Team

Olympic Games of 1992..... 636

Olympic Games of 1994..... 641

Olympic Games of 1996..... 642

Olympic Games of 1998..... 646

Olympic Park bombing..... 647

Olympics bid scandal.SeeSalt

Lake City Olympics bid

scandal

Ondaatje, Michael........ 649

O’Neal, Shaquille........ 650

O’Reilly, Bill........... 651

Organic food movement..... 652

Organized crime.SeeMafia

Oscars.SeeAcademy Awards

Outsourcing........... 654

Palahniuk, Chuck........ 657

Paltrow, Gwyneth......... 658

Patriot missile.......... 659

PDAs............... 659

Perfect Storm, the........ 661

Perlman, Itzhak......... 662

Perot, H. Ross.......... 664

Personal digital assistants.See

PDAs

Pharmaceutical industry..... 665

Philadelphia............ 667

Phoenix, River.......... 668

Photography........... 669

Physician-assisted suicide.... 670

Pitt, Brad............. 672

Pixar............... 673

Planned Parenthood v. Casey.... 675

Plasma screens.......... 676

Poetry............... 677

Pogs................ 678

Pokémon franchise....... 679

Police brutality.......... 680

Pollution.SeeAir pollution;

Air pollution

Popcorn, Faith.......... 682

Poverty.............. 683

Powell, Colin........... 685

Presidential elections.See

Elections in the United States,

1992; Elections in the United

States, 1996

Project Gutenberg........ 686

Promise Keepers......... 687

Proulx, Annie........... 688

Psychology............ 689

Publishing............ 691

Pulp Fiction............ 692

Quayle, Dan........... 694

Quebec referendum of

1995.............. 695

Queer Nation........... 696

Race relations.......... 698

Railway Killer.SeeReséndiz,

Ángel Maturino

Ramsey murder case....... 701

Hip-hop and rap music

Grunge music

Real World, The.......... 703

Recession of 1990-1991..... 703

Recreation.SeeHobbies and

recreation

Reeve, Christopher........ 705

Reeves, Keanu.......... 706

Reform Party........... 707

Religion and spirituality in

Canada............ 708

Religion and spirituality in the

United States......... 710

Reno, Janet............ 713

Rent................ 714

Republican Revolution..... 716

Reséndiz, Ángel Maturino.... 718

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