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1992�Saying it would �retard technology,� President Bush told the Earth Summit in
Brazil that the U.S. would not sign a treaty that would protect endangered plants and animals. 172 other nations
supported the measure.
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1996� �Pigmania� was taking place with the popularity of the movie Babe, but it was the
Sesame Street doll Tickle Me Elmo that caused stampedes at American toy stores during the Christmas season..
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1999�Technicians scrambled to fix �Y2K bugs,� problems that could render computers
unusable should their two-digit date systems change years from 99 to 00. Ignoring the fact that a new century
and millennium would actually begin with the year 2001, concert promoters, advertisers and the media- plus a
majority of the public- considered New Year�s Eve 1999 to be the moment of the transition.
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