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NPR's Richard Harris reports that a small company in North Carolina is pioneering a new approach in its attempt to develop a vaccine against AIDS. Scientists have tapped public money and a charity, as well as venture capital, to move an intriguing idea from the laboratory toward the marketplace. Untraditional approaches like this seem to be needed to surmount the many technical and practical difficulties in developing an AIDS vaccine.

A New Jersey company is taking advertising to an new level -- advertising on sand. If you have the cash, Beach 'n Billboard will stamp your ad into freshly dragged beach sand with a special machine. Linda talkswith the machine's inventor and president of the company, Patrick Dori.

From member station KJZZ, Mark Moran reports that the Major League baseball season resumes tomorrow following the All-Star break and batters are on pace to hit more home runs than in any season ever. But in a handful of cities, a few pitchers have found a way to keep the ball in the park and their teams at the top.

-- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on how Mormons are responding to newly imposed restrictions on religious activities in Russia, which President Yeltsin signed into law on Friday. The law will limit missionary work and proselytizing by any church that can't prove it's been operating in Russia for at least 15 years and will limit the actions of foreign religious personnel. The Mormons plan to move ahead with their missionary activity. The main proponent of the new law is the Russian Orthodox Church, whose activities will not be affected.

A group of former models are in France giving testimony against a former prominent figure in the fashion industry, who they say raped and abused them.

NPR host Steve Inskeep visits Torkham, a major border crossing wedged between Pakistan and Afghanistan, to explore who is and isn't able to pass through now that the Taliban are back in power.

NPR's Rachel Martin and Tom Bowman talk to Darryl St. George, an Afghan War veteran reflecting on the end of the mission and the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York where he was living.

An estimated 67 undocumented immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Central America, who worked at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 are still considered missing two decades after the terrorist attacks.

On Thursday, the president announced a series of actions to encourage K-12 schools to mandate masks for all and require vaccines for employees.

Identical twins Richie and Ronnie Palazzolo were both working in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. Ronnie came to Storycorps to reflect.