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THE DEFINING MOMENTS OF 1995
(CNN Interactive, $39.95). The bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19 and the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) on November 4 are two of the events covered on this CD-ROM program for Windows and Macintosh. One hundred major events of the year from around the world are presented with the aid of 1,500 pictures, 200 audio clips, printable text, and more than 1,000 statistics. Particulars of the Susan Smith and the O. J. Simpson trials; the “Million Man March” on Washington, D.C.; the deadly sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system; the spread of the Ebola “killer” virus in Africa; and the feverish pace of the first hundred days of the U.S. Congress, as the new Republican majority sought to implement their “Contract with America,” are reviewed, along with such lighter topics as the Academy Awards and Super Bowl XXIX. Users can also play the News Quiz–designed for one or two players–to test their knowledge of 1995 news trivia.