"The business of America is business," quipped President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Not even "Silent Cal," however, could have predicted what happened to business at the end of the twentieth century, when the remarkable...

The decade of the 1990s was a period of rapid change in media fueled by advances in technology, the continued merging of companies, and the explosion of"trash" media. Developments in technology led to debates about censorship and protecting...

In the 1990s public concern over various social and political issues was manifested in new legislation, litigation, and court decisions. Attention was focused on crime rates, the accessibility of guns, juvenile violence, the rights of minorities and...

As the century drew to a close, the potential for human invention and understanding appeared boundless. Scientific understanding expanded daily, from the fundamental building blocks of matter to the source code of all life to the origins, and perhaps...

The 1990s refers to the time period between the beginning of 1990 and the end of 1999. The 1990s were marked by rapid progression of globalization following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were...

A 51-year-old man told his daughter that he killed her mother, leading authorities to charge him with the 1990 killing, police said.Prosecutors on Friday charged Rodney Boesel of Gary with murder in the death of his former wife, Donna Boesel, then 22, said Lake County...

TITLE: "Moment."LENGTH: 60 secondsAIRING: IowaSCRIPT: Obama voiceover: "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message."Obama on stage: "We are in a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels...

Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped-up inspections."We thought we had done all we could," state bridge engineer Dan Dorgan told...

Women are dying from complicated pregnancies and childbirth at almost the same rate they were in 1990, and the vast majority of deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, a report said Friday.The report by three U.N. agencies and the World Bank estimated...