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This anthology follows the 1980s and 1990s as the world moved through the rise of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, the death of the Soviet Union, and the rise of the computer age. Also covered in this volume: the birth of MTV, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the Chinese government's bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, the death of apartheid, the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the cloning of Dolly.