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Missouri competes for $4B in extra education money JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri must be willing to overhaul its education system and develop new teaching methods to compete for more than $4 billion in federal funds, the state’s top education and political leaders said. State Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro challenged several hundred education, business and political leaders .... Source article  : Missouri leaders meet to develop plans for competition to get share of $4B in education money.

Belgian expert looks at other questionable comas BRUSSELS — A doctor who discovered that a Belgian man had been wrongly diagnosed as vegetative says he is reexamining dozens of other cases. Dr. Steven Laureys says he has discovered some degree of consciousness using state-of-the-art equipment in other patients but won’t say how many. He looks at about [..] Read the original article: here.

more images more images CAPITAL CULTURE: 60 years of US meals for India WASHINGTON — In the history of U.S.-India relations, there’s been plenty of broken bread and even a few crumbled Triscuits. American presidents have entertained India’s leaders over fine wine and even finer food for the past 60 years — at grand White House dinners with hundreds ... Read : CAPITAL CULTURE: 1 measure of US-India relations? Trail of broken bread, crumbled Triscuits.

NEW DELHI - Delhiites were caught in serpentine jams Tuesday when a religious procession in the heart of the national capital choked main roads and the subsequent detours weren’t enough to cope with heavy evening traffic. The procession for the Guru Teg Bahadur martyrdom procession started at 9.30 a.m. from Gurdwara Sis Ganj in old Delhi’s .... Original article on Gaea Times at  : Religious procession chokes roads in Delhi.