In the 1990s, a bunch of gene jockeys brought the first genetically engineered food to market.  The business crashed but biotech science has flourished far beyond the produce aisle.  In May 1994, a tomato appeared on supermarket shelves across the country ...

The decades-long quest to save wild horses has run amok, creating a problem that even swooping helicopters, aging cowboys, camera-savvy activists, and millions of dollars can’t solve. America has been fighting a war over wild horses since 1971, when ...

With dreams of one day colonizing space, eight people sealed themselves inside a giant glass biosphere in the Arizona desert in 1991.  By the time they emerged two years later, they had “suffocated, starved and went mad.” In 1991, eight ...

In 1988, the nation learned the truth about the alleged crimes against Tawana Brawley, but the shocking story was far from over. In the late 1980s, Tawana Brawley became a household name as her horrifying story spread across the country, igniting outrage ...

The Y2K bug threatened to wipe out computers and disrupt modern society at the end of the 20th century. We all remember the doomsday hype, but what really happened? It’s hard to imagine in these days of smartphones, iPads, and Google Glass that something ...

In the 1980s, many government officials, scientists, and journalists warned that the country would be plagued by a generation of “crack babies.” They were wrong. Easy to transport, highly addictive and sometimes deadly, crack cocaine ripped through ...

Military sexual assault is not a new phenomenon. A second look at the Tailhook scandal in 1991 reveals what happened then. And what it all means now. “Tailhook.” It was called the worst case of sexual harassment in the U.S. Navy’s history ...

The 1987 voyage of a barge loaded with New York garbage became a sensational fiasco, but it ended up fueling the modern recycling movement. Dan Rather dubbed it “the most watched load of garbage in the memory of Man.” Johnny Carson joked about it ...