Texas A&M students may be allowed to purchase their textbooks tax-free in the future as a result of a joint effort between college students in Texas and legislators.

Lindsey Kinnebrew said she always shudders when she is asked to remember the day she moved into the dorm her freshman year.

Ten years from now, the plastics created by Shawn Fitch and his research companions may be used every day. Even if the students in the Chemistry 101 lab sections for which he is a teaching assistant (TA) do not know the impact that Fitch's research had on the world, they will know the difference that he made in their education.

Most parents and grandparents have wills or have done some type of estate planning, but in many cases, when heirs inherit a large amount of money, they have no plan, said Stephen D. Maislin.