On 16 April 1990 Marissa Eve Ayala was born, having been conceived by her parents to serve as a bone marrow donor for their daughter, Anissa, eighteen, who was suffering from myelogenous leukemia.

On 16 December 1991 David Baltimore, Nobel Prizewinning biochemist (1975), resigned from the presidency of the Rockefeller University after being charged with falsifying research data. The charges were upheld by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigation. In 1996 a federal appeals panel overturned the charge and a year later he was appointed president of the California Institute of Technology.

On 13 July 1998 the remains of First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie, shot down in Vietnam (11 May 1972), were positively identified through DNA testing. His remains had been interned at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C., for fourteen years.

On 19 August 1996 Grady Carter, a former smoker and survivor of lung cancer, was awarded $750,000 in...