A combination of creativity, research, and confidence propelled Meghan Stafford to the top of the Student of the Year class. The University of Minnesota senior presented an idea to the judges that focused on the creation of the Motorola Mob Squad.

Playing on a theme of superheroes, the squad would be made up of Motorola’s most senior executives, including CEO Ed Zander; Daniel Moloney, president of Motorola Connected Home Solutions; and Padmasree Warrior, the company’s chief technology officer.

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STATE-of-the-art water bazoo-kas and plastic mineral water bottles with holes drilled into the caps.

These were among the “weapons” revellers brought on Sunday as they had a splashing good time, dousing each other with ice water, water balloons, bedak sejuk (rice talcum), perfume and talcum powder at the Songkran Festival at the Wat Chaiyamangalaram (Reclining Buddha) Temple in Burmah Lane, Penang on Sunday.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – - The University of Miami’s Baseball Team will still travel to Blacksburg, Va., this weekend for its three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series at English Field. In light of the tragedy on April 16, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department has made the following decision to host three home ACC events.

Miami and Virginia Tech will play Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 12 p.m. Virginia Tech will also host softball and women’s lacrosse home events.

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Can a corporation have karma? Dave DeWalt thinks so.

This 42-year-old executive, recently named as McAfee Inc.’s CEO, came to believe in the power of good deeds to deliver redemption after the high-tech economy crashed this decade.

DeWalt, who blazed up the corporate ladder of Documentum Inc. in his mid-30s, had barely settled into the corner office when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks battered the stock market as well as software sales at the struggling Pleasanton company, which was already lagging rivals in an increasingly competitive multibillion-dollar marketplace for Internet content management.

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The donations have been overwhelming, but the recovery has been slow for the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And that’s where Indians left fielder David Dellucci’s frustration lies.

As a Major League ballplayer from Baton Rouge, La., Dellucci found himself in a position to do a tremendous amount of good for his home state and the other areas battered by the two storms in August and September of 2005.

Through his charity, the Catch 22 for Blue Foundation (www.catch22forblue.org), Dellucci helped raise nearly $100,000 for various charities and needy causes in the Gulf region.

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