The World Book Year Book 1996: A Review of the Events of 1995

The Story

Reviews the events of 1989. The special reports section has seven articles on saving large North American birds, the reforms carried out by Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, the changing state of television on its 50th anniversary, the condition of homelessness, the current and future uses of energy sources, Antarctica, and scientific studies of twins. The World Book Supplement has four new or revised articles from the 1990 edition of the encyclopedia: 'Jordan', 'Ocean', 'Tanzania', and 'Hispanic Americans'.