Lipscomb University plans to start an engineering school that will offer two kinds of undergraduate degrees this fall.

The school will award bachelor's degrees in computer engineering and engineering physics, and it hopes to enroll up to 275 students within a few years, said Ralph Butler, chairman of Lipscomb's department of physics and engineering.

Lipscomb to create engineering school

The Tennessee Renaissance Festival is held 10 a.m.-6 p.m. every weekend in May and Memorial Day in Triune. Ticket process are $14 for adults, $6 for children 6-12, $11 for seniors and ages 5 and younger are free. Presale tickets end Friday at participating H.G. Hills stores. Additional information at 395-9950

The Tennessee Renaissance Festival

WASHINGTON, April 30 — Senators seeking to encourage high-speed Internet access introduced a bill Tuesday that would subject all services to the same regulatory constraints, regardless of how they are delivered.

THE BILL, DRAFTED by Louisiana Democrat John Breaux and Oklahoma Republican Don Nickles, seeks to boost competition by easing regulations on digital subscriber line, or DSL, services, which provide speedy Internet connections over telephone lines.

Senators seek deregulated broadband

Universal Music is in talks with its best-selling rap artist Eminem to incorporate copy-protection technology into all upcoming CD releases of "The Eminem Show," marking the biggest move yet to protect its top acts from music piracy, a label representative said Wednesday.

Universal and Eminem would need to strike an agreement on whether to release the security-enhanced CDs in the next two weeks to meet manufacturing deadlines for the June 3 release date outside the United States, a Universal representative said.

w1ld: LAME

Eminem may wrap CDs in copy controls

LONDON (Reuters) - Icelandic singer Bjork, one of the most unorthodox figures in pop, is five months pregnant, her London management company said Wednesday.

The former singer of indie-band "The Sugarcubes," who had a string of solo hits in the 1990s and is renowned for her kooky dress sense, is expected to give birth to American boyfriend Matthew Barney's child in September.

Icelandic Singer Bjork Is Pregnant

Roger Dowdy, director of engineering for television station WTVF-Channel 5, has been where many of his colleagues must still go.

When Dowdy's station started carrying a digital TV signal in November, it was the first in town to do so. Now, with other area stations scrambling to meet a government-imposed May 1 deadline to go digital, Dowdy is resting easy.

w1ld: good read for other local nashville networks

Government's push to promote digital TV has stations scrambling

A 4.5% flat-rate income tax proposal under consideration by the Tennessee General Assembly would raise more money but wouldn't inoculate the state from economic ups and downs, economists say.

Flat-rate tax not immune to economy's fluctuations

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Transformers, a race of gigantic, shape-shifting robots, invaded planet Earth two decades ago, desperate to find life-giving fuel for their ailing civilization.

Now they're back, this time fueled by the nostalgia of Generation X.

Return of 'Transformers' the latest craze

He-he's b-back. Max Headroom, the original virtual character, is coming out of retirement. See the full series of this sci-fi classic beginning Friday, 5/3 at 6 p.m. Eastern only on TechTV.

'Max Headroom' Is Coming to TechTV

April 29 — In a test of post-Sept. 11 security procedures, undercover investigators bypassed safeguards at four federal buildings in Atlanta and easily could have carried weapons, biological agents and spying equipment with them, NBC News has learned.

Failed physical security in Atlanta's federal buildings