MICROELECTRONICS: TMEC to make control chips by 2009 (The Nation)

MICROELECTRONICS: TMEC to make control chips by 2009 (The Nation)
The Thai Microelectronics Centre will over the next four years move towards commercial development of the next-generation smart control chip.

From Intelligent Cars to the Prevention of Heart Attacks, Germany (Medical News Today)
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish 12 new Collaborative Research Centres as of 1 January 2006. These will cover a wide variety of topics including intelligent safety systems for cars, non-governmental governance models, and methods of preventing kidney failure or heart attacks.

New Rolls arrives in Qatar (Gulf Times)
Staff Reporter THE 100 EX, the first experimental car to be produced by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars since the BMW Group took over the marque in 1998, goes on display at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Doha showroom today.

Beneficiaries as minors, and trust taxes (Northwest Indiana Times Business)
Time to catch up on some of the questions that readers have sent me. Q: I am unmarried and have named my minor children as beneficiaries of my 401k. Is it OK to name minors as beneficiaries?

Top Sport Utilities on MSN Autos
The most popular sport-utility vehicles on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle research pages during the third quarter of 2005.
compiled by MSN Autos

Texarkana Bio: Alice Coleman & Sandra Holmes (Texarkana Gazette)
For the past 20 years, Texarkana Public Library patrons have come to view Alice Coleman and Sandra Holmes as more or less interchangeable.

Old baby carriage to stay in Carlisle (The Sentinel)
When Seymour and William M. Ewing were babies, their mother, Jessie Morrison Ewing, wheeled them along Carlisle s streets in a wicker carriage specially made for twins.

Prop. 42 and the HOT lane (Carlist)
Three years ago the voters of California passed Proposition 42, providing that the State sales tax on gasoline be transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF). The TIF transfer is estimated to be $1.310 billion in 2005-06. Sounds simple and straight forward, right?