Britannica Book of the Year

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The "crisis" in cosmology --Birmingham six exonerated --Banks in crisis --Fighting Kuwaiti oil fires --Invasion of the Zebra mussels --The lingering U.S. drought --Oregon health plan --Bill of Rights bicentennial --Dinosaurs at 150: no sign of extinction --The Gulf War --Mozartiana --Jewish-Christian relations: an update --African affairs: decline of the one-party state --The Kurds: a historical background --France: the premiere of Madam Premier --U.S.: "Tie a yellow ribbon..." --U.S.: political correctness --Latin-American affairs: privatizing a continent.