The year 1990 marked the beginning of the decade before the last one. Seems hard to believe, doesn’t it? It was the time before a Clinton White House and a second Bush White House. It was a year marked by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, which ignited the Persian Gulf War; the dissolution of the USSR; the forming of the European Union; the resignation of Margaret Thatcher; the unification of East and West Germany; the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope; and many other events that some of us remember and others of us have only read about.