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Pima School District institutes across-the-board raises

19 May 2013

PIMA — It may not be much, but any salary increase is a welcome sight for teachers who have seen their pay frozen for the past five years.

Prof collecting alms for poor in train held for begging

18 May 2013

India, May 19 -- Known for gathering funds to build educational institutes for the poor by asking for vidya daan (education alms) on the city's local trains, professor Sandeep Desai was in for a rude shock on Friday night when the railway protection force (RPF) arrested him on charges of begging and causing nuisance.Desai, 53, was travelling on a local train when two policemen, who boarded the ...

NDRI Awarded $5.9M by NIH for Genotype-Tissue (GTEx) Project Scale Up

16 May 2013

The National Disease Research Interchange has been awarded $5,955,435 by the National Institutes of Health for the next phase of human tissue collection for the Genotype-Tissue Expression project—an NIH initiative begun in 2010 to investigate how genetic variation may relate to gene expression and its correlation with disease.