Yeltsin tours Kansas farms in heartland visit
Russian president Boris Yeltsin, a wheat farmer’s son, farms a combine on a family field in Wichita and tours a meat plant before praising U.S. agriculture. He touts his summit with Bush on arms cuts and economic cooperation and says Russia aims to learn from American farming and meat packing practices. He heads to Ottawa afterward.
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Court upholds California property tax law Prop 13
The Supreme Court rules 8-1 that Prop 13 does not discriminate against newer home buyers. The measure, adopted in 1978, taxes property based on purchase price rather than current value and raises about $17 billion annually for California.
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AIDS Vaccine Successful Against HIV In Chimps
An experimental AIDS vaccine protected three chimps injected with HIV infected blood cells for up to a year. Two remained immune, one died of a heart issue. The study, by Patricia Fultz and colleagues, tests infected cell exposure, a key route for needle sharing among drug users.
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