Events from 1998

Iceland creates first national DNA database, sold to deCODE Genetics

Russian financial crisis; IMF credit theft; BONY money laundering exposed; YBM Magnex (Mogilevich company) collapsed

International Accounting Standards Committee restructures to become more effective in developing global accounting standards

Increased reports of electromagnetic sensitivity symptoms (1998-1999)

Google founded using mathematical PageRank algorithm - Linear algebra and graph theory enable internet search

Dr. Wakefield links MMR vaccine to autism and enterocolitis

Thomas Hales announces computer-assisted proof of Kepler conjecture

Cardelli's Ambient Calculus - model computation with boundaries and mobile processes

Pope John Paul II issues 'Fides et Ratio' on faith and reason - 'Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth'