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...ARRESTED. HIROTOSHI HONDA, 61, eldest son of late Honda Motor Co. founder Soichiro Honda; for allegedly evading $8.5 million in corporate taxes while head of Formula One engine maker Mugen; in Saitama, Japan...
Feeling stifled by their corporate masters, Hawkins and Dubinsky left in 1998 to found a rival handheld-device maker, Handspring. After its IPO in 2000, the pair's stake was worth more than $1 billion. Palm, meanwhile, had been spun off three months earlier and was freestanding again. But the handheld market crested in 2001, when 13.3 million Palmlike devices shipped, and both firms now faced new competition from Microsoft's Pocket PC platform...
...defibrillator implanted in your chest, it's not an idle question to ask whether it's in good working order. Thanks to medical-equipment maker Medtronic, heart patients can check up on the lifesaving device simply by waving a mouselike wand over their chest. The wand is plugged into a standard phone jack to send data to a physician over the Internet. An implanted defibrillator--a miniature version of the electric paddles that appear regularly on ER--can shock a racing heart back to a healthy rhythm. But every few months, doctors must check to see if it is operating...
...head of sales in Asia for computer-chip maker Intel, Chen, 41, tapped emerging markets from China to Pakistan and turned the region into the company's top revenue producer. As Chen settles into his new post as head of sales worldwide, he will continue to work to develop nascent markets, adding Latin America and Russia to his plate. The Tai Chi devotee will also play a big role in Intel's push to place its chips in communications devices, from cell phones that send pictures to computers that access the Internet wirelessly...
...track was soaked, but it wasn't Mother Nature that beat Funny Cide in the Belmont Stakes, keeping the horse from becoming the first in 25 years to win the Triple Crown. It was EMPIRE MAKER, which had been the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby. Now that all the fun has been spoiled, racing fans must, yet again, wait till next year...