ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ back-to-school time, and that means itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the season for news reports on how much teachers spend out of their own pockets on supplies for their classrooms.Inevitably, these stories shed light on the level of dedication teachers have, even when many of them are not adequately paid, and ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> A former Waynesburg woman is hoping to make a big impact on children in West Africa. Kathleen Nichols, who now lives in Ashburn, Va., is raising money to build a school in Niger. The three-classroom elementary school will benefit children ...
Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...