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Monday, May 23, 2005

Scientists Say Sunshine May Prevent Cancer (AP). AP - Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

An interesting twist to everything your mother told you to be careful of.  Too bad the sun is not out today where I am - I need a few minutes in it.


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SQLLoader. Hi Tom, I need to load the data from text file into multiple tables. In each row, the first, second, fourth fields should go into table"A", third, sixth fields should go into table"B" and fifth field should go into table "C". The fields are t... [Ask Tom MOST RECENT ARTICLES]

Geek post.  Sorry, but this is good stuff too.


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Hitachi replacing PCs with thin clients. Concerns about data security are making Hitachi, one of Japan's biggest electronics companies, replace more of its employees' PCs with thin clients, the company said at a news conference Monday. [InfoWorld: Top News]

In general, this is not a bad idea.  Most users don't need all the processing power they have now.


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