House OKs China trade bill boosts Clinton win
The House approved permanent normal trade relations with China by a 237 to 197 vote, a bipartisan victory for President Clinton and business interests while angering organized labor. Clinton praised the decision in the Rose Garden, calling China the largest new market with 1.25 billion people. The bill ends annual reviews after twenty years.
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Lawrence-Douglas County plan upholds home business tier system
Douglas County planning commissioners chose a three tiered framework for home businesses, preserving rural home occupations, rural home businesses, and limited industrial home occupations. They rejected a new aggressive agricultural zoning category despite consultant concerns, saying adjustments to acreage minimums address violations while keeping the existing structure.
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Minority students on rise in college enrollment by 2015
An Educational Testing Service report projects a 19 percent rise to 2.6 million in the number of young adults academically qualified for college over two decades, with minorities blacks Hispanics and Asian Pacific Islanders making up 80 percent of the increase. By 2015 minority undergraduates are seen at about 2 million higher, reaching 37 percent of all undergraduates, driven largely by enrollments in California Texas Florida New York and Arizona.
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Time may run out on nickel parking meters
City considers raising long term downtown meters from five to ten cents per hour to fund a planned four level parking garage on New Hampshire Street. City Manager Mike Wildgen cites rising maintenance costs and a $545,618 annual downtown budget as reasons to seek self support for city parking expenses.
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Chest compressions may beat CPR with mouth-to-mouth
A New England Journal of Medicine study shows bystanders giving only chest compressions to Seattle area cardiac arrest patients yielded higher survival to hospital and home than those receiving both chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth. researchers caution due to limited numbers but deem chest compressions likely more effective.
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